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| - My husband and I have been looking to find a place like this is Toronto every time we visit there. He is a professional beer brewer in the San Francisco Bay Area, and likes to check out independent brew pubs wherever we go. Bellwoods was spot on! Their style of beer is very comparable to what we get in the SF Bay, where there is a brew pub in just about every neighborhood. The brewing system itself is exactly the one he uses at the brewery where he works.
The service was great, really nice, friendly and fast. We visited twice here during the 10 day vacation, we enjoyed it so much. We made a point of getting there early, 5pm on a weekday, 12 noon on the weekend, with no problem getting a table. Parking on Ossington was no problem either time.
The food was slightly upscale for a pub, but affordable. We had our 12 year old son (picky eater) with us, and he made it work by ordering the fries with the bread and butter side. Doesn't sound like much, but they were great quality, and he was satisfied. My husband and I shared the meat platter, the cheese platter, jalapeno corn, duck hearts, and mortadella sandwich. It was all very good! In fact, my husband went back to his SF pub raving to the head chef about the duck hearts.
If I still lived in Toronto, I would move to the Ossington neighborhood, so this could be my local pub. It's really that good.
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