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Cobblestone Public House vs The Brantford Club: A Pint in Paris, or the Bar to Yourselves

Cobblestone Public House is a pub at 111 Grand River Street North in Paris, Ontario, open every day from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on its own pages, with sixteen draught beers and a riverside patio. The Brantford Club is a private members’ club at 98 George Street, Brantford, since 1898, whose Pub and Members’ Lounge, 50 seated or 80 standing, is booked as one party’s room outside business hours.

Cobblestone Public House keeps its door at 111 Grand River Street North, Paris, Ontario N3L 2M4, telephone 519-442-1820, open every day from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., as its contact page gives it, read on September 17, 2026. Tables for one to four are booked through the OpenTable widget on its home page; five or more phone. Anyone who searched the name for a pint in Paris tonight has what they came for. The rest is for the host with twenty to eighty people who wants a bar to themselves for one night, and is weighing a public house in Paris against a members’ pub in Brantford.

Paris has its public house on Grand River Street North; Brantford has one private house on George Street with a pub inside it. Cobblestone Public House opened, as its own story tells it, on April 6, 2008. The Brantford Club keeps the other kind of bar in a house that was the residence of Dr. John Y. Bown before the Club bought it, and its Pub and Members’ Lounge, two fireplaces and a horseshoe bar, is a room one party can hold outside business hours.

The Evening That Belongs to Grand River Street

A Friday in Paris with a pint on the patio belongs to Cobblestone Public House, conceded first. Its home page puts the case in its own words: sixteen draught beers from around the world, the riverside patio open for the season, and a menu that runs from wings in one of seventeen sauces to Lake Erie perch and an item it calls “Canada’s Biggest Nachos.” Its sister restaurant, Stillwaters Plate and Pour, has its own entry in the Journal’s comparison of Stillwaters and the Club. Two or six who want that table on the main street of Paris should book Cobblestone and go. The Club is for the evening where the bar is nobody’s but yours.

Can you book the pub at The Brantford Club for a private party?

Yes. The Pub and Members’ Lounge at The Brantford Club is the members’ own room during business hours and a private room outside them, and the Club’s hosting sheet counts it at 50 seated or 80 standing. A host does not have to hold a membership to take it; the enquiry is open to anyone with a night to plan. The Club staffs the horseshoe bar for the party that has the room, and the food comes from executive chef Eric Wasylenky’s kitchen. Club Manager Sabrina Van Leeuwen takes the enquiry and has the evening in hand when it comes; the arrangement, in plain words, is on the page where the Club sets out how a room is booked.

Cobblestone Public House, on Its Own Pages

Cobblestone Public House is a pub at 111 Grand River Street North in Paris, Ontario, and everything here about it is taken from cobblestonepub.ca as read on September 17, 2026. Its menu, posted as two pages on the home page, counts more than two million chicken wings sold since April 2008, in seventeen sauces from lemon pepper to dill pickle ranch; the produce comes daily from Fortes Market in Brantford. Reservations run two ways: OpenTable for one to four, the telephone for five or more, and the contact page asks that reservation requests not come through its form.

The Pub and Members’ Lounge at 98 George Street

The pub at The Brantford Club sits on the main floor of the house at 98 George Street, and the Club’s centennial history tells how the room came to look as it does. In 1977, during a renovation, the wainscotting came off the northeast wall of the lounge and the remains of an old fireplace came to light, known to be there only because a chimney still stood above the roof. It was rebuilt with an Italian marble face and twin beavers above the mantle, and the history’s author, who drew the design, wrote that it “has worked admirably to the satisfaction of all who gather before it on a cold winter evening.” In 1997 the wall behind the bar came down and opened the bar to the former Inglenook Room, the most desirable improvement of that renovation in the book’s words. The Journal’s entry on Piper Arms covers the bar’s 1909 stock list; this entry is about the walls around it.

Cobblestone Public House vs The Brantford Club, for a Party of Twenty to Eighty

Cobblestone Public House vs The Brantford Club, put for the host with a group to place, is a public bar in Paris against a members’ bar in Brantford that closes its door around one party. Cobblestone’s column is its own site’s wording; the Club’s is the hosting sheet.

Twenty to Eighty, With the Bar to Themselves

A private night in the Pub and Members’ Lounge at The Brantford Club runs on a few settled things. The room is booked outside business hours, so the party has the horseshoe bar and the door, and no second party is waiting. The food comes from Chef Wasylenky’s catering menu, or a meal written for the night, agreed before the date. A party of twenty that wants a smaller room can take the Retro Lounge upstairs, 20 seated or 30 standing. A deposit equal to the room fee holds the date; the rest is put in writing before the host commits.

Asked by hosts with a party to place

Sources: cobblestonepub.ca, its home page (where the menu is posted), contact page, and events page, read on September 17, 2026; the Club’s booking page, house policies, and centennial history. Every such pairing is filed under the register of rooms compared.