I was with 2 coworkers in Toronto and one of them who used to live in the city recommended we stop in this place for a beer, because they have a great selection. He wasn't lying, because they have a display of all the beer bottles when you walk in & tons of good beer on tap. I could smell delicious Italian food as soon as we walked in and everything looked great, but we had already eaten so I can't review the food. However, to our surprise we happened to walk in on Cask Days '09, a Cask Ale festival going on that week. The waitress told us we could either sit down and she would get us Cask Ales from outside or we could drink out on the patio. We made our way outside and they had about a dozen different Cask Ales from all over Canada and some European ones.
It was my first experience with cask ales but I really liked them. You can taste the beer more without all the carbonation and generally they are darker and more flavorful than most beers. I tried 3 pints of different types, and each were around $8 CAD on average, but well worth it.
We met the owner outside, Ralph, he served us some of our ales, and the other bartenders/servers were nice. Ralph told us about how he goes about getting casks of ale from all over for these types of events and how he gets a lot of unique beers in general from local Canadian brewers and whatnot. He was real cool. I would love to come back here for a couple of beers on my next visit to Toronto