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| - Pancers is not bad. But I cannot say it is as good as Caplansky's downtown. I have heard stories about this place from Toronto Jewish friends and I expected some type of Toronto deli wonderland à la Schwartz's in Montreal but Ontarianized. What I got was a let down.
I came here because I am a devout RUSH fan and this is where Geddy and Alex came to eat after their first paid gig in 1968. I eagerly told our server that and she could not have given less of a damn, simply saying "yeah, they are on the wall". But whatever, I want my meat. We sit down to order. Having driven here all the way from Montréal in my 1997 Volvo 850 GLT Wagon, I had to take a long tinkle, so I ask where the bathroom is. The manager/owner of the Restaurant directs me to a confusingly located doorway and when I try and go into ANOTHER door that is marked "WASHROOM" the owner/manager yells at me "HEY NO HANGING OUT BY THE DOOR!" In a very rude tone of voice, what a Jerk! I am coming from another province to drop $30 on your mediocre meat don't belittle me!
People say the service here is bad, our server was a bit gruff but I cant say the service was really bad, good enough to warrant leaving a decent tip.
Now on to the meat: the Smoked Meat was watery and chalky tasting, the type of industrial tasting smoked meat that in Montreal we look down upon, the type that is pre made in a factory than shipped to filthy fast food restaurants in bad neighborhoods. The Pastrami was odd tasting and had a corny taste not salty at all like real NY Pastrami should be. I had to add salt myself to make it edible. The Beef knish that I had as an appetizer however was pretty good.
The Restaurant itself is located on Bathurst so far north of civilization you need to drive there, the 7 Bus would take you literally a lifetime to get there but Moe Pancers doesn't seem like the type of place that south of 401 Hipster Toronto dwellers should be eating at anyway, so I'll add a star for that, since the food is certainly just average. Not bad, but average. The clientele is VERY old, I would say the average age in the place was probably around 92 and me and my friend brought down the average age by about 70 years!! That is alright though, I respect my elders, one day I will be one too and hopefully still eating smoked meats and knish's.
Moe Pancers is located in a run down strip mall that is easy to miss. It looks like it has not seen any changes since 1973, sometimes that can be a good thing but in the case of Moe Pancers it is kind of a turn off, the place looks down and out from the exterior. Maybe invest in some new signage at least.
I later read that the Pancer family sold the Deli to some randos but opened up another location in Vaughn. Had I know that I would have just gone there as I would rather give my money to them. My advice to Moe Pancers: go to Montreal. Eat at Schwartz's and Copy that. It'll do you some good. I guess silly Ontarian's will never really get it.
Overall, Moe Pancers is OK. I wouldn't go back but if you are in North York and you want a decent corned beef and to hang out with North York's surviving members of the Greatest Generation, check out Moe Pancers!
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