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| - Jack's is a SIR corp chain. This particular Jack's has been at the same location for quite a while now and I've seen them flip their menus many times as they don't have the same thing and seem pretty dynamic. What I do miss the complimentary garlic bread in the small pan. THAT was amazing. You can still add it to a meal or buy it by itself but IMO it was one of the reasons to go to Jack's in the first place kind of how Red Lobster has their garlic cheese biscuits. It's like a carb staple that people would cheat their diet to have.
They have a pretty spacious patio facing the new north west section of Sherway Gardens and while the patio is nicely covered the seating is a mix. You have your low seating near the perimeter and group high long benches in the middle sort of separates the high from the low seated crowd and high tables along the side of the wall.
We decided to sit on the patio tonight seeing as how the weather was sort of decent and these days the inside seemed a little darker and the AC was blasting hard. Now don't me wrong I like comfortable AC but sometimes and in some areas it can be too strong. I felt it's almost cold inside and I'm not really one to complain about that.
The menus seem sort of simple and limited I suppose even though there's a wide variety. Between standard type starters and some special starters from the feature menu there are some choices but not too many that appeal to me. When I go to a bar you expect the expected sort of like nachos, wings etc. Some of the featured apps were a couple kinds of poutine, one of which had pierogies on it. I like pierogies but not on poutine. The other one had vegetables on it. We just went with the calamari which was a decent size and was ok.
Besides the choices of chicken parm, fish and chips, sandwiches, burgers, chicken fingers etc this fare basically is just so common and you see it just about everywhere. Nothing really special here that stands out (besides their bread) so overall I have to say with a variety of choices they seem pretty mundane for a city that has some of the best restaurants and diversity of cuisines in the country, this place makes itself just another chain with a mundane selection of SAFE choices.
I went for a burger again which seems to be a fallback choice for me these days. I'm not about to get pad thai or chicken parm at a chain restaurant any time soon because those dishes can be had elsewhere, probably for less and "more" authentically true.
The burger I went with was the Holy Smoke that had smoked bacon, American cheese, hickory mayo, smoky BBQ sauce, crispy fried onions, and pickled banana peppers. This meal came with a side of fries and was just OK. Like I said nothing spectacular here and really nothing special. Standard is as standard does equals 3*.
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