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| - This was easily my favorite club we visited during my trip to Toronto. We came here twice, both on a Thursday night (we tried coming back on a Saturday night, but we just had too many people), and had an absolute blast.
The cover is $10, but it's nothing if you get in before 9. There is also a $2 coat check if you want to use it, which I think is fantastic as it was the only club we went to that even offered the option.
Apparently they also serve food here, so I'm guessing based on Todd's review below that its primary focus is a restaurant. Usually these restaurant into night club transformations fail tragically, but I think Brant House pulls it off quite nicely. I even saw people getting served some nice looking dishes around 11'ish, so I'm not sure what time the kitchen closes down.
The decor of the place (aside from the country-western bar looking tables in the middle) is a great low-light, dark color palette with ultra plush couches and large tv screens that show some really freaky shit during club hours. There is also attendant service in the bathroom, which is just another nice touch Brant House added.
I had one of the best bartenders ever on my last visit to Brant House. I didn't catch him name, but he looked about mid-30's with a closely buzzed haircut (sorry, best I can remember!). I left my card with him and got almost instant drinks ahead of others all night, and he made them much better than the 2 other bartenders I got drinks from earlier.
The DJ here was ok. He started out with all 80's tracks for close to 30 minutes, which was getting quite old by the time he switched over to music that we recognized. The rest of the night was pretty much all hiphop from the last 10 years, pretty cliche but still mixed nicely at least.
My one real complaint with Brant House was the dance floor. It is entirely too small, and I think this is where the restaurant/club idea hurts them the most. On a busy night it is PACKED, with very little room to even move to the bar. They do the best they can to clear out more space by removing all the chairs from the middle table section, but this doesn't really help much.
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