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| - Well after running with my sister in the summer heat, we needed food. She had mentioned Wurst to me a couple times before and I told her that it was just around the corner. I brought it up on my phone and mentioned to her that the dessert is salted maple rosemary ice cream. Well that sealed the deal. This is one of the reasons she runs...the guilt free ice cream follow up. For, it's beer...and Wurst's tap list is pretty good and they boast a pretty nice bottle list too. They even post on their web page when they last cleaned their lines. Very nice.
Of course, those two things are bonuses, because you come to Wurst for the sausages. I really wanted to have a staple like Oktoberfest or Bratwurst, but my sister asked me if I had ever had kangaroo. Well, no I hadn't, and thus my choice was made. Add to that some duck fat fries and a Mill Street 100th Meridian and I was set. The kangaroo was an interesting meat to choose and it was accented with herbs, but it wasn't too distinctive. It was nice and it tasted lean, but I can't say much about it other than it probably needed those herbs. The duck fat fries were pretty damn awesome (get these!!!) and the beer was decent.
I wanted draft and that was the best on offer. If I wasn't driving, I have been jumping into the bottles next. They have some standout breweries like Cantillon, Founders, DDC, Evil Twin, Mikkeller, Trou, and Freigeist. They're also doing casks, and starting in January 2016, bringing out the beers they've been cellaring.
There's still tons left for me to come back for; guinea fowl with cheddar/asparagus, duck with maple/fois gras, wild boar with mushroom/tea, and elk with cumin/porcini all look like standouts on the game menu. The traditional sausages all look pretty damn tasty too and they now have heritage breeds (Tamworth and Berkshire) which would be interesting to try. Another thing that really excites me is that they offer a currywurst sausage too.
If you have room, they also offer and interesting soft serve ice cream which seems to be a Toronto staple now, but they kick it up a bit by offering duck fat fry bits as a topping.
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