I do not understand how this place isn't packed each lunch hour! I suppose it might be because it's just on the other side of the tracks (if this were an old map of Downtown Calgary, anything South of 9th Avenue would be shaded out with a 'there be Dragons' warning...) for whatever reason nobody seems to go anywhere South of 9th Avenue for lunch... All the better for me! Everywhere else Downtown you pretty much need to arrive at 11:30am if you want a table but there's no such pressure (yet!) at District... I expect this will change. On the food side everything is fresh, constantly updated and quite excellent. For me, one lounge/pub litmus test is the venerable Club House.. the District version was easily an 8/10! Pints can be had from the immediately adjacent/inhouse micro brewery and their Fat Pig IPA is great. Hard to comment on service (really they don't seem to have been tested yet with the sparse lunch crowd) but what I've had was attentive but unintrusive. I think I have a new favourite in my quest for Pub Lunches Downtown!