Glo Restaurant + Lounge

Birthday was amazingly

I always do! I have taken many friends and family members to Glo over the years and they have never disappointed.

The food was very good, but the steak was rather small considering the price

Service was poor, delay in initial service, one guest had a severe allergy and message was not passed to the kitchen. I requested a table with a view in advance was given table by window, with plants covering up the view of junk pile. Food was so-so. Not worth the $

The food was really good. We wish the portion size was a little bigger for the price. The overall dining experience was good.

We had an excellent dinner and round of drinks. A perfect spot to reconnect with an old friend. Thank you for the patient, friendly service.

Had a nice dinner with my celiac daughter. We dont usually eat bread but love the GF Glo bread! Always good. We also enjoyed our entrees, a pasta dish and I had the Buddha bowl with tofu. Very good. Lemon meringue martini was top notch and daughter enjoyed her lime margarita. We shared the Creamsicle Creme Brulee...very good. Service was pretty good. Server was friendly and helpful. A little slow with the water refill but otherwise good. Glo has always been a good experience for us, particularly with my celiac daughter.

Our waitress Erika was fun and very helpful. She ensured that my wife's birthday dinner was perfect.

We were a party of 4. Arrived on time, greeted with a smile and were quickly taken to our table. Very pleasant young lady (Erika) was our server for the evening, she was always available if we wanted anything, checking that everything was to our liking. Our guests were from Scotland, they had travelled right across Canada and said this was one of the best restaurants they had visited.

The service could have been better. The food was good. Atmosphere was good. The view was fantastic. We didn't like that when we arrived they said they had already seated our reservation so there must have been a mixup, as a result we were able to be seated but had a time limit for another reservation at that table after us. Not sure why they would have seated someone else as us.... The server also was not super attentive. We would go again but would hope for better service and not time limit.

Our patient server, Kelsey, was very efficient, she became our photographer for our historical chaotic 5 Wilson Sibling Last Lunch Ever, Event. The food was brilliant, a few goodie take home containers, our 15 guests from 90 yrs old down to 46 yrs, ALL impressed with your view, parking a bit tricky for some, overall a 3 hour celebration, with my 77 yr old, wheelchair, Selkirk resident eldest brother, situation, fun, fun, fun. Thank you Dallas, and other staff supporting our joy.

My wife and I went for a Friday evening dinner and were pleasantly surprised. The service was spot on, the wait staff worked liked a well choreographed ballet! The ONLY complaint we have is that the sound travels and echos throughout making intimate conversations out of the question. But other than that, we loved and will come again.

We were 15-20 minutes early and were told our table wasn't ready please take a seat. After a few minutes we were told we could have a table but had to be out within 2 hours. The service was so slow I didn't know if we'd be out in time. We could have skipped dessert, but it was Mom's birthday so didn't want to do that. All in all it did not make me feel warm and welcomed.

Wonderful GF options, delicious food, great service and a beautiful location. It was a real treat!

Lovely meal with family visiting for first time.
Food great too.
Was a bit noisy due to birthday parties and couldn’t hear one another very well, but not enough to stop us enjoying ourselves.

Awesome all around

Anniversary lunch

Service was slow and the food was mediocre at best.

Great setting.Excellent,well-groomed and well dressed server who exuded class.Very much enjoyed taking our guests from Scotland.They were very impressed.

Glo restaurant is a modern, vibrant place in a trendy area with condo developments in the Gorge part of Victoria. Water views are lovely and Glo has a nice patio on the water (not in use when we dined there due to rain). There are tropical plants on the patio. Our server was friendly and on-the-ball. For a Thursday night it was quite busy and fairly noisy. The menu is interesting and reasonable with choices for every palate. I had the Buddha Bowl with prawns and it was tasty but there was way too much sauce and it was spicier than I liked. Our server offered to bring me more rice to "soak up the sauce" which I accepted. It helped a lot but then it was too much food altogether. Anyway I would definitely return and probably choose a different menu item. It is a nice place to eat and I would recommend it.

Glo is one of our favourite restaurants in Victoria. As locals who live in Esquimalt, Glo is our "go to" place to eat or for a cocktail on the beautiful patio. When we have company in town, this is where we take them as the food and service is consistently great. We dinned there recently when we had friends here from Ontario. Everyone had a great time and really enjoyed the meal. Highly recommended.

Nice, nothing exceptional

Great service, beautiful view and love the food.
We always enjoy our lunches and happy hrs here.

Beautiful venue,perfect lighting, amazing floral arrangements. Palm trees outside on the generous patio. Great service, many available servers and staff. Very busy and high energy, DJ working background music. I had the Buddha bowl with added prawns, lots of great veggies included, great flavors, generous portion. My table partner had the Beef Carpaccio, great presentation and delicious, and also the Tuna appie, again done right and more than enough to share. Reservations for sure, and try to pick a sunny day, we would have liked to enjoy the patio,it is right on the water.

Consistently great food, ambience, and service. This will continue to be our go-to place when we are out and about.

Always great!!! Great time every time!!
It’s my regular place for a great meal.

Love this place. Awesome view with excellent food selection. Never a bad dish.

I made a reservation for my birthday and indicated such on the reservation. No acknowledgement was made. I ordered the steak and surf. The steak was tough and chewy even though I asked for it to be cooked rare. My partner was not impressed with their meal either. The waitress did not come by to ask how our meal was. Decent atmosphere. High end pub? A little like a Moxie's wanna be. Best to stick with drinks and appetizers, otherwise for the amount you spend, go somewhere with better food.

Poor service was not a rating made lightly. While reception and seating hostess was lovely , the wait staff was not at all. I waited for 10 minutes after being seated to get a glass of water, waited a short time later to get drink and food order, waited over 45 minutes to get food ( my butter chicken had obviously spent most of that time under a warming light) and then waited so long for my check that I had to flag down another server. Never did see our original server after.

Nice, varied menu with yummy sounding items. Hard to choose. All meals at our table were very good.

Glo has very nice ambience. We sat on the patio and since it was breezy they brought blankets and turned on the heaters. We were toasty ybin no time. Menu is very interesting and prices appear to be the same for the evening as at lunch. Very pleasant exoerience

Love this place! Especially outdoors. Best patio setting in the city, Glo has a great atmosphere, casual, classy & friendly.

Excellent food, service and location, outside and in the shade.

The food was good - freshly prepared and delicious. While there are vegetarian entrees there is only one vegan entree - no choice and why not? A good chef shouldn't have to lean on cheese in everything. Glo should add a few more vegan choices - vegetarians will be happy because they can eat vegan food and vegans will be happy with more choice.

Great location and great server.

Patio dining for birthday party

Great food, great ambiance, lovely surroundings. Overall, the afternoon happy hour menu was great value and delicious.

We are regulars at the restaurant and like it very much. I try to vary menu choices and this time ordered Jerk Chicken. Flavors were good but the chicken and rice were very dry.

As always, my Buddha Bowl was outstanding. Our server on Saturday seemed a bit distracted - in the 2 1/2 hours we were there she came around twice for drink orders. Our water glasses were empty too. That's not our typical experience, but is the reason why I gave just three stars for service.

Everything was great.