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| - Whether I'm ending a night with shots at the bar bathed in the glow of strings of light, or showing up for Bluegrass Brunch to recover from a night out (what's better than kids dancing, music blaring, and family-style platters of scrambled eggs to make the memories of the night before even fuzzier?)...The Dakota never lets me down.
5 stars, a "yahoo!", and a southern yodel for this joint on Ossington.
If I have out-of-towners visiting, they come with me to The Dakota. Which is funny, I suppose, because I often yell to my fellow Torontonians above the music "this place feels like it's not even in Toronto!". It's loud, it's a good mix of people, I don't feel a pretentious vibe (I've shown up dressed up in work clothes, post-bar crawl and in clothes just slightly more dressy than PJs, and all felt a-ok), and the music is killer. Special musical note goes out to Bluegrass Brunch regulars The Beauties and the annual winter holiday event, "Jason Collett's Basement Revue".
Your ears will leave happy. Trust.
Staff great, Caesars stiff, vibe phenomenal, and food, though not top notch, well...you're not *really* at The Dakota for the food.
Yelp note: The Dakota is in the basement of a building, which can make connecting with friends hard (phone service, you say?). However, this tech-luddite can admit (we're all friends here, right?) that I kindof find that charming. I show up, rally with my friends who are there, and the rest of the world beyond The Dakota is dead to me (telephonically, that is). BOO to the YAHS.
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