Wind Cries Mary

Name: Wind Cries Mary
Address: 45 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC, US
Telephone: (250) 590-8989

Vancouver Island-driven, nose-to-tail sharing plates described by the restaurant as coastal cabin food for modern times.

Read from

windcriesmary.ca

Two pages, all on their own domain.

Last official read 5 August 2026. A later corpus refresh is not a new read of this page.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has not put in writing

Current menu pricing; detailed dietary policy; step-free route and restroom configuration; and one more.

A blank means nobody said it; it never means we filled it in.

Every field below matched the pages on the day they were read.

Victoria, BCNothing published on dietBest recorded use: Group dining

Open decision detailsBook / reserve (250) 590-8989

Tonight at Wind Cries Mary

What Deep Dish knows

Kitchen: Cocktail / lounge · Seasonal / market · Wine-forward
Format: Seasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists.
Spend: Moderate planning band
Booking: The restaurant offers online reservations.
Menu: Published on windcriesmary.ca
Source: windcriesmary.ca

Nothing published on diet4 fields never stated

What do you need?

Read the menu with Deep Dish Open it on windcriesmary.ca Dietary questions What should we confirm?

Dietary

Before you order

Nothing published on diet

The restaurant's own pages say nothing about diet or allergens. That is an open question rather than a no — it means nobody has answered it yet, and the only way to answer it is to ask them before you order.

None of this is an allergen guarantee. Deep Dish records what a restaurant published and when it was read, and verifies nothing about a kitchen.

Identity mark (bar), drawn from cuisine and room signals recorded for Wind Cries Mary.

Why go

Vancouver Island-driven, nose-to-tail sharing plates described by the restaurant as coastal cabin food for modern times.

No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: Seasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists.

Private or semi-private path is on file.

Before you book

Why go, what to order, what it costs, what the room is like, whether it fits tonight, and what you still need to confirm. Where an answer says the restaurant has never stated it, that is their silence being reported, not a gap we intend to fill.

01Is the food actually good?
On file
The restaurant describes itself as Vancouver Island-driven, nose-to-tail sharing plates described by the restaurant as coastal cabin food for modern times. That is the restaurant's own description, not a review consensus. Deep Dish does not rank food quality from public reviews.
Restaurant-owned description · not a quality verdict
02Is it worth the money?
On file
The menu changes frequently and current prices should be checked on the live menu. That is the restaurant's published figure, not a value verdict.
Restaurant-owned pricing
03What is the overall experience?
On file
Tucked-away Bastion Square restaurant with front patio, secret courtyard, dark cabin-like interiors, and a late-night downtown energy. Diner-facing tags on file: intimate, casual, high energy.
Restaurant-owned atmosphere + recorded bands
04What do other people think?
Never stated
Deep Dish does not collect diner reviews and does not rank rooms by them. What other people think is not a first-party field. Ask people you trust, or confirm with the restaurant.
Not a first-party field
05How good is the service?
On file
Stated service format: daily dinner, happy hour, late-night drinks, patios, and private-event formats. That is the restaurant's own description, not a diner-experience pattern.
Restaurant-stated format
06How convenient is it?
On file
The restaurant offers online reservations. Downtown Victoria street parking and nearby parkades; Bastion Square is… Shared-plate dinner commonly runs 90 to 120 minutes; late-night bar visits can…
Booking, arrival, meal length, access
07What should we ask before ordering?
On file
The retrieved first-party pages do not publish a comprehensive dietary or cross-contact policy. Before you order: confirm the live kitchen rule with the restaurant.
Restaurant-owned dietary language
08What is the menu like?
On file
No signature dish is named on the restaurant's own pages. Format on file: Seasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists. Drinks: dedicated wine and cocktail menus support a substantial late-night beverage program.
Restaurant-owned menu language
09Is it clean and trustworthy?
Never stated
The health-inspection layer is empty in this build, so this restaurant has not been checked against one. Cleanliness here comes from an inspection record or from nothing at all. Public reviews are not used as a cleanliness signal.
Conservative — inspection layer not loaded
10What makes it different?
On file
Private or semi-private path is on file.
From culinary identity, room, and format on the case file

Table intelligence

What the room is like, what to order and what it costs — each claim taken from the restaurant's own pages or a directory location fact, never from a review sample.

What to order

No dish is named on the restaurant’s own pages. Ask what the kitchen is known for when you call — this is a gap in the file, not a verdict on the food.

Menu formatSeasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists.

What it costs

The menu changes frequently and current prices should be checked on the live menu.

When you can go

Open daily from 4 PM to 1 AM, with happy hour from 4 PM to 5 PM.No machine-readable schedule is held, so the instrument cannot tell you whether this room is serving right now.

The tradeoff

Restaurant-owned pages

Tucked-away Bastion Square restaurant with front patio, secret courtyard, dark cabin-like interiors, and a late-night downtown energy.

OccasionLate dinner; cocktails; date night; group celebration; visitor dinner in downtown Victoria.

Public reviews are not summarised here. What the room is like comes from what the restaurant published.

Getting there

Address: 45 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
Coordinate: No coordinate is held. Deep Dish cannot state a distance to this room.
Step-free: Not stated on any source held.

The room

Tucked-away Bastion Square restaurant with front patio, secret courtyard, dark cabin-like interiors, and a late-night downtown energy.

DressNo formal dress code was published on the reviewed first-party pages.

Decision brief

The file is still limited

Situation fit63

Evidence confidence51

Confirm burden52

Fit: Reads 63/100 against a partial situation. Strongest recorded use: group dining. Add an occasion to sharpen this.
Evidence: Weakest coverage: Commitment, Price. Those fields were not published, so they are not filled in.
What you still need to ask: 1 critical risk: review window has lapsed. 0 watch items, 6 residual unknowns carried forward.
Confirm burden: Confirm burden 52/100 · planning load Standard · no official conflict · reviewed 2026-08-05, next 2026-08-19.

Before you choose it

Vancouver Island-driven, nose-to-tail sharing plates described by the restaurant as coastal cabin food for modern times. That is what the restaurant says it does, read off its own pages.

Food & menu: Vancouver Island-driven, nose-to-tail sharing plates described by the restaurant as coastal cabin food for modern times. Seasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists.
Spend / value: The menu changes frequently and current prices should be checked on the live menu. Confirm live before you commit — price is volatile.
Experience: Tucked-away Bastion Square restaurant with front patio, secret courtyard, dark cabin-like interiors, and a late-night downtown energy. Room read: casual, high energy, slower pacing.
Best fit: Late dinner; cocktails; date night.
Convenience: The restaurant offers online reservations. Shared-plate dinner commonly runs 90 to 120 minutes; late-night bar visits can… Downtown Victoria street parking and nearby parkades; Bastion Square is…
Dietary: The retrieved first-party pages do not publish a comprehensive dietary or cross-contact policy. A menu marker is not a guarantee of allergy safety — confirm the live kitchen rule.

Recommended next action

Ask the restaurant about commitment, price before you commit. Call (250) 590-8989 in one pass and clear every critical item below; book only after they resolve.

When you are ready

Send Wind Cries Mary to the night plan in Occasion OS, where the rest of the night is being built. Rejected rooms and browsing stay here.

Send this room to the night plan in Occasion OS

What you still need to ask — in order

01Re-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.

Why it ranked where it did

Why it ranked here

Fit 63 of 100

This is the opening score for the occasion — 63 of 100 — and nothing you have told us so far has moved it up or down.

Add the party size, your budget ceiling, when you are arriving or where you are coming from, and every term that changes this number will be listed here.

What Deep Dish is watching

For this night

Critical

Criticalevidence · impact 78 · high confidence
Review window has lapsed
Last first-party review 2026-08-05; window closed 2026-08-19.
DoRe-read the official pages before using this record for a decision.

Unknown

Unknowndietary · impact 26 · high confidence
Dietary handling requires direct confirmation
The retrieved first-party pages do not publish a comprehensive dietary or cross-contact policy.
DoConfirm before inviting anyone with a restriction.
Unknownaccess · impact 24 · high confidence
Access honesty marker: route unstated
Detailed physical-access route and restroom information were not stated in the reviewed first-party pages.
DoAsk only if a guest needs it; the record does not claim accessibility either way.
Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence
Current menu pricing
Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.
DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.
Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence
Detailed dietary policy
Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.
DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.
Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence
Step-free route and restroom configuration
Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.
DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.
Unknownresidual · impact 20 · high confidence
Live patio availability
Recorded as unknown at the last first-party review; not inferred, not filled.
DoCarry into the confirmation call if it bears on your night.

Restaurant sources

What the restaurant publishes

Pages read

Every line in the table below came from one of these sources. None of it was assembled out of other people’s reviews.

Never stated

4 things the restaurant has never published. Listed rather than filled in. Each one is a question worth asking before you commit to the table.

Current menu pricing
detailed dietary policy
step-free route and restroom configuration
live patio availability

Service: Daily dinner, happy hour, late-night drinks, patios, and private-event formats.
Menu: Seasonal sharing plates using local bounty, with dedicated wine and cocktail lists.
Occasion fit: Late dinner; cocktails; date night; group celebration; visitor dinner in downtown Victoria.
Hours: Open daily from 4 PM to 1 AM, with happy hour from 4 PM to 5 PM.
Reservations: The restaurant offers online reservations. Groups of up to eight can book normally; groups of nine or more use a separate inquiry.
Price: The menu changes frequently and current prices should be checked on the live menu.
Dietary: The retrieved first-party pages do not publish a comprehensive dietary or cross-contact policy.
Beverage: Dedicated wine and cocktail menus support a substantial late-night beverage program.
Groups & private: Seated dinners and cocktail events can accommodate up to 100 guests. A private back room holds up to 30, and courtyard dinners are available. Seating evidence from the restaurant's own pages: Group reservations Groups & Events Groups are welcome for seated multi-course dinners or cocktail & canapé events with intimate capacity for up to 100 guests. · PRivate Dining For private dining, our back room has a capacity of up to 30 guests.
Atmosphere: Tucked-away Bastion Square restaurant with front patio, secret courtyard, dark cabin-like interiors, and a late-night downtown energy.
Accessibility: The restaurant has never said.
Parking & transit: Downtown Victoria street parking and nearby parkades; Bastion Square is pedestrian-oriented — allow walk time from the nearest garage.
Dress: No formal dress code was published on the reviewed first-party pages.
Typical meal length: Shared-plate dinner commonly runs 90 to 120 minutes; late-night bar visits can be shorter.
Practical notes: The dynamic menu changes often. Confirm current dishes, dietary feasibility, and whether the booking is for the main room, patio, courtyard, or a group format.
Address: 45 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
Conflicting information: The restaurant has never said.
Source quality: Official restaurant website and first-party menu, reservation, contact, and experience pages; official destination listing used only where noted.
Confidence: moderate_first_party
Freshness: CURRENT_AS_RETRIEVED
Likely to change: Availability, menu, price, hours, dietary feasibility, and reservation terms are volatile.
What to verify next: Reverify volatile hours, menus, prices, and booking mechanics within 14 days; confirm dietary and access at booking.