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| - Probably one of the worst places I've ever been in terms of service.
We were told to seat ourselves wherever we wanted and so we did - and it took the server about 10 minutes to ask us what we wanted to drink. After asking what was on tap, we asked what some of the prices were, and she said she needed to check, left and came back about 5 minutes later. It was ridiculous how long we had to wait for one beer when the restaurant was not even half empty. She came back to check up on us to see if our beer was ok after we had finished our first round. The bar was still half empty. The waitress we had seemed like she didn't care much about our order or that she was working there at all and was quite spacy. When we finally asked for our bill (which took another quite a bit) she gave it to us with the machine. It was only as we paid that she smiled and told us that they were short staffed and how she was "running around" trying to serve everyone. But it was only when we were paying the bill that she decided to be nice and have converstation with us.
The prices were fairly standard for bars in the area, a pound of wings was $13, but it was hard to find anything cheap. I heard that they had half priced wings, but when we asked, the server said that they didn't have anything like that so I'm not sure if there really were anything like that. We wanted to order something, but with the service so bad and slow, we decided that it just wasn't worth the time to wait.
The bar itself is in a good location, close to streetcars/buses and other foods that you need. The place was much bigger than I thought with a wide back and a basement (with the washroom) that had a billiards table. There are TVs everywhere and they were playing various sports games. However, the art was a bit creepy - they had old portrait paintings that were kind of creepy.
All in all, the bar itself is nice, has a great draft selection (though has weird prices, our Steamwhisles were 6.19) but horrible service.
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