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| - Parkdale never fails to impress. Its good-gone-bad-gone-kind-of-both-ways-now neighbourhood runs halfway between seedy bordering on felonious and upscale Yuppie haven. Tucked in at Queen and Beaconsfield, is the aptly named Beaconsfield that tends towards the latter.
My first run into Beaconsfield was on the promise of a calamari special. Every week night, the Beaconsfield runs a special. $8.00 will get you a pint of 50 and calamari, macaroni and cheese, chilli fries, Asian dumplings, or fish and chips depending upon the night. We showed up on the wrong night and at the wrong time. It was in fact chilli fries night and we arrived at 7:45pm, 45 minutes after the drink special ends. Blast.
Undeterred, we took to the menu and came up with burger the burger and fries combo. Sounds simple but the burgers are truly excellent made up of some combination of meat that I can't make out, unless there's a specific breed of cow out there known as the 'Succulent Angus'. The fries are of the real potato kind, shoe-stringed and plated in a little Chinese food take-away box. Cute.
You can also upgrade your fries to poutine if you like, made the traditional real way with actual curd. Off the food menu, the drinks are not that expensive considering. Pints of 50 are $5.00 and you can get a $4.50 pint of local-hero Amsterdam Blonde (http://www.yelp.ca/biz/amsterdam-brewing-company-limited-toronto). Where their scotch list small-to-medium sized, their array of premium tequilas I've not seen matched outside of Mexican restaurants that typically have a handle on things. If only I could find a client with a penchant for good food, drink, and an expense account. Oh, dear.
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