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Despite my soft spot (patio area is one of my fav summer spots), I have to adjudicate the food fairly. This spot is in tough, neighbouring two of Rose's spots (to be honest we only ended up eating here because of Rose & Sons'/Black Crow's wonky hours). The food game on the Dupont strip is fierce and Pour House doesn't keep up.
Got the brooklyn hipster style fish tacos and pork taco. Bleh OK. Fish taco was the best thing we had, it was dece (again... we're competing directly with two FIRE Mexican spots down the street). Nice piece of what I think was Talapia some cilantro, avocado, decently fresh tasting... nothing spectacular. Also got the poutine trio, the wild boar was enticing (I've had some really nice boar dishes before) this was totally mediocre. Fries were pretty bland, kinda stale... you can get much better poutine from a truck on front st.
Service was great and friendly as always... cool hip chairs and they've kept the TVs (I think a smart call). Not sure why every new reno has to be in the spirit of the same lumineers music video, I guess it's aesthetic, it's getting old tho.
$3 shots for you drinkers, I think this spot is going to stick as more of a bar than a restaurant, which I think will be perfectly fine for us dupont strippers.
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