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| - Yeah, the buns often come toasty-grilled, but oh my, are the burgers huge! The poutines here are huge and greasy-good!
If you really want to knock yourself out, try a 'Mexican Poutine'--like a nachos plate in the form of a poutine. Or their GBK poutine--mmm, pulled pork and goat cheese...
I haven't the chance to try 'em all yet. But the burger patties are very nicely thick (what a difference 6 ozs make), and has a decent grilled backyard taste. And best of all, at $6-12 for a single item or a meal combo respectively, much of the grub at GBK are relatively affordable by local 'gourmet' burger standards. Albeit, it's pricey from a high-schooler-buying-lunch-across-the-street perspective. (And thus I wonder how busy the place is with teenagers at lunch hour--indeed, with the slow seeming gentrification of the anonymous Gerrard-Jones block, the pool of cheap-though-not-necessarily-good lunch options as I remembered it are shrinking... but lest I digress.)
As a consolation to the above point, there is a 4oz 'student burger' on the menu. There's also a small ice cream bar, though seating options are limited to bar counters running two sides of the service space. Ya know, it would be decent to provide a coat hanging solution so one wouldn't have to eat in while wearing a thick winter jacket. (But lest I digress again.)
They strive to made good comfort grub with local ingredients, whereas I strive to consume big burgers and creative poutine ideas. I'm quite impressed with GBK.
{TTC: the 83 or 506 to Gerrard and Jones. GBK is smack next to McGugan's pub at the northwest quadrant.}
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