let's get this straight..nothing about this is my scene. If I had to describe my scene the top three things on the list would include, "NOT the bar in the Trump hotel".
But on a night with a whiney man-baby that wanted to go to a pricey exclusive type lounge and refused all offers of mine to go to some sweet ass dive bars and drop him off at the local strip bar, I was tricked into going to Stock.
Once here the mood was cool, the room dark and crowded and the women. my...the women...few and far between and the ones that were there were dressed unlike anything else. Now I've been to some nice places in Toronto..the kind of nice places where the pricetag on drinks will have you eat cereal for the rest of the week. But I have never seen so FEW women ALL dress so ridiculously in my life. Think FUR and SEQUINS ONNNNN the SAME coat. yeah...
that happened.
Now the men. some just dudes after work. Some you can tell are pretentious arses waiting to get the sequin-fur into bed.
But a night of drinking? A possible absurd bill broke even.. My buddy got my first drink which he promised me would be laced with everything fun and fantastical for providing reluctant company to his absurd whims. And the bottle of red was taken care of some hot shot wearing purple socks. thank you, Purple Socks- your conversation was entertaining and your socks magical.
So why the three stars on a place I hated the thought of going to?
Well, I actually had fun. Yes, given any amount of alcohol I understand the chances of having fun are high. But I had fun and the environment didn't PREVENT me from having fun (the music wasn't TOO loud, the service wasn't TOO pretentious or bad, the people weren't TOO unbearable). Mix that in with some generous patrons wearing things you can make fun of in a yelp review? Well that deserves a star or two in itself, non?