The Forte Bar

Head down to South Harbour Street and you'll find The Forte doing what good bars do: staying out of their own way. It's the sort of place where you're not paying for Instagram potential or craft cocktails with seventeen ingredients—you're paying for a clean pint, friendly faces, and a space that doesn't try too hard. The crowd's mixed enough that you'll see regulars propping up the bar alongside people just discovering the spot, which says something about how it operates without pretension. It's become a proper fixture on the harbourfront, the kind of bar that works just as well for a casual weeknight as it does when you want to settle in for a few hours.