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| - I decided to check out the Irish Embassy for dinner, as I was around the corner of the restaurant at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Outside, the pub looks like it could have been a bank at one time. Inside, it's an urban Irish pub, complete with a banner honouring Pat Quinn as the Irishman of the Year (not the Pat Quinn who once coached the Leafs, a different Pat Quinn).
As for the reason why we go to restaurants, there is the food and drink. When I asked for the beer menu, I was handed the entire drink menu, which was massive, but offered more cocktails than beer. I wound up ordering a couple of Sleeman Honey Browns. I ordered a salmon dish, which was tasty. Since I also wanted a salad, I asked if it came with the entree. It did not, but the server did point us out to a secret, that there's a small salad not on the menu that can be added to the meal for $3. So I ordered that. Prices were a little higher for the meal than what I would normally expect, but the prices were probably normal for downtown Toronto.
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