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| - Typical west-end Toronto joint: take a classic comfort food, make it decent-enough, put it in a hip, well-designed locale, jack the prices, and people will come.
Some friends took me there on a whim and overall I enjoyed it, but not sure I'd go again. It was decent, but I've had way better BBQ lately, even from friends' backyard barrel smokers.
We ordered quite the spread off the menu - brisket, half-chicken, smoked wings, beef rib, slaw, mac n' cheese, potato salad. The meat was all of good quality, but overall, everything was pretty bland tasting. Not a lot of smoke or spice, so no real depth of flavour. My favourites were probably the wings and slaw.
Now I gotta discuss where this place loses marks: the beef rib. This is listed as "market price" and we ordered one. It was a good size, probably had 7-8 oz. of edible meat on it, and was decently tasty, although like I mentioned before, bland. When we got the bill...the single rib was $47 f'n dollars! I started laughing. The price of a nice dry-aged rib eye for that? I've had similar beef ribs in the past that weren't even half that cost. It was pretty absurd.
Despite that nonsense, overall, I dug the place. Quality meat, good beer, nice atmosphere, but I didn't feel I got any value for my money.
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