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I happened upon Baldwin's after a yelp elite event in the area. A few of us yelpers felt like going for a nightcap and Baldwin's was the closest pub to get our fix. This restaurant is located on a nice strip of wellington near the Aurora GO station. Walking into the restaurant on a Thursday night the place was pretty quiet with only a few people sitting in the bar area, we were seated promptly.
The menu is a concise bar style menu and doesn't really live up to the steakhouse label on the front of the restaurant. I opted for the turkey sandwich with a side of sweet potato fries (no extra charge for sweet potato fries, most places usually charge for this substitution which makes no sense). My sandwich was a fair size, but overall wasn't great. The turkey was piled on pretty generously but unfortunately it was dry, the cranberry mayo was virtually unidentifiable but the multigrain bread was quite delicious. The sweet potato fries were very crispy and nicely fried, one of the better sweet potato fries I have had. The fries were served with a jerk mayo which was WAY too salty, it was unpalatable. We did alert our waiter about the saltiness and he was quick to bring us chipotle mayo instead, the chipotle mayo was much better.
This place only has a few big name beers on tap, nothing in the way of craft beer. They did have Rickard's which will do in a pinch (I tried the Rickard's oakhouse which wasn't great). The service was okay; our waiter did check up on us often and was quick to rectify the dreadful jerk mayo dip. This restaurant is probably a 2.5 star but I will bump them up to a 3 because they do source their food locally, when we inquired about this the waiter said most of the produce and meat comes from nearby Cookstown and that everything is made from scratch, this is always nice to see.
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