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| - No cocktail menu. They say they make anything, and since it looked like hipster central I thought I'd order a bourbon-based drink. The Manhattan was disappointing AND it cost $12.50! Excusez-moi? Your bar is a nicely lit closet, at most. It's not classy and there aren't half-naked women sliding down a pole, so why is my drink $12.50? Because it's a double? Oh. I don't remember asking for a double, but fine. It wasn't even very good.
Other than the nice lighting at night, I can't recommend this place, unless you are easy to please and you just like beer. They have a pretty big beer list. The bartenders aren't real bartenders that are passionate about creating drinks. They don't have a cocktail menu and they don't really have any recommendations. Essentially, the bartender-type that works here appears to be just someone that can pour draft beer, open bottles and mix rum with coke. No real bartending talent need apply?
Standard bar rail is $6.50 but if you want something different then be prepared to pay double because apparently when it comes time to make something challenging, i.e. not a standard bar rail drink, it costs more than it should, for a place of this calibre. I expect to pay that much money in a nice lounge or club, but not a dive bar.
If you want to spend $13 per cocktail in an armpit of a bar in Dundas West, definitely come here.
Overall, the lighting was nice, the atmosphere had "character," and I was disappointed with the lack of cocktail prowess and the price gouging because I ordered something other than a pint of some unknown microbrewery. I can't say I'd come here again, but then again, I don't generally go to dive bars... The experience here convinced me that I should probably stick to that rule.
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