I went to the 203 Dundas East location of Smoke's Poutinerie this week for lunch one day. For weeks I've wanted to try it out with great anticipation but my experience didn't blow me away. I had a small order of the poutine with bacon. The fries were good unto themselves but, in my experience, larger softer fries (what I'm accustomed to calling "steak fries") are ideal for poutine since they soak up the gravy better. The fries at Smokes were relatively narrow, crispy fries. The gravy that was on the fries was of a nice flavour but it was runnier than I like for poutine. The consequence of the consistency of the gravy was that it didn't embrace the curds and they didn't melt very much, which is too bad because the curds themselves were quite good. The bacon on top of the poutine just made it "food porn." It was tasty but, for me, it's just too much. Overall, I don't have anything bad to say about Smoke's because the individual ingredients of the poutine I had were good but they did not come together in a way that I like best when it comes to poutine. I will say that I really appreciated that Smoke's sold Pop Shoppe drinks as beverage choices.