It started, as most good things do, with people who love booze.In 2012, Jesse Willis and Jeff Jamieson opened Vine Arts, a modest wine and spirits shop with a modest selection of cocktialing liquors and bitters. Calgary had opinions. Soon Vine Arts was stocking everything you could imagine to make a great cocktail and it became clear the city needed a room built entirely around the drink.

So, in the spring of 2015, they built Proof.

Since then, we have focused on one thing: making a genuinely great cocktail feel like the most natural thing in the world to order. Proof is not the kind of cocktail bar that requires a password, a pocket square, or a working knowledge of pre-Prohibition rye.
We believe craft cocktails should be exciting, not intimidating.You do not need to know your Boulevardier from your barrel-aged anything. That is our job, and frankly, we are annoyingly good at it.

Behind the bar sits one of the largest spirit collections in the country: more than 350 bottles, rolling ladders and all. The people pouring from it would genuinely rather geek out with you than talk down to you.

Come curious. Leave wiser. And most importantly, leave happy.

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