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| - I've been coming here for bottles to go for a while ('Stay Classy' is an amazing and flavourful light brew that will ferment beer haters into beer lovers), that I almost forgot they serve grub too on premise, next door to their beer store. The beautiful front patio is usually buzzing, but was hardly busy when I stopped by for an early weekend lunch.
When you eat here, you're not limited to just the stuff Bellwoods Brewery brews; their beer list is so extensive, it is drunkenly out of control. And if their rotation of own beers are amazing (which they are), well, I had no idea how amazing their food is too. That is, until I started hammering their amazing fries, meat boards and chickpea salad. The fries were an amazing crisp hit drizzled with parsley and clumps of fine cheese. And I should stop repeating the words "amazing" to describe anything here that will fit in your stomach; even in its simplicity, feels like they put as much attention to their food as does their brews.
Food is generally served snack bar/tapas style and in such servings. And yeah, it's in the thick of the Ossington hipster strip (indeed hipsters and microbrews attract like raccoons and compost bins), but ditch the hipster checklist at home. The place has a great casual social atmosphere and is also surprisingly family friendly. Happy waitstaff are waiting to provide attentive service with fun hot personality. It's a lovely place to eat indeed. And drink... I forgot you can get bottles of their stuff to take home.
{TTC: the sixty-third to Argyle St. If you are going southbound, the back doors of the bus should literally align with the entrance. Drunken bus-shelter-with-a-brewpub convenience!}
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