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| - Great beer selection (local and varied enough for everyone). The owners are service industry veterans it seems, and are super friendly and happy. Service is great. Recommendations are spot on normally.
The only thing stopping me from spending more time here is the atmosphere/decor. The walls are painted cement grey, with a TTC theme that I don't quite get for the location. The fluorescent light glaring out across the space from the bar fridge just makes it feel really cold and sterile, like sitting in a dark garage or the bridge of a Star Trek Odyssey Class starship bridge. Feels even colder in the winter months. It's a tiny place, but with a few new bars all opening up on the same block within the same month, the ones that are going to last are going to be the ones that people want to stay and drink in all night.
I have brought friends there at least 4 times and had a business meeting there once, because I live in the area and it's convenient, but the overwhelming consensus from my groups are always to retreat after one or two beers back to someone's house or apartment to continue drinking in a more comfortable environment. I'd like to see this place last - might be worth bringing on a commercial interior designer or just a local artist who has the eye and ideas.
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Had to add this: Just saw some of the photos for this place here on Yelp. First one was a screen cap from Facebook of the bar calling the neighbours "fucking loser neighbours" due to sound complaints. As a neighbour to the bar, I wasn't one of the ones who made a sound complaint but my neighbour and friend in the building directly accross the street was, and it WAS a week night and even fucking loser neighbours have jobs that they need a good night's rest to be able to be up for in the morning. I've gotta say, I'm not sure I'll be going back, after seeing this - maybe the owners aren't as cool and as friendly as I thought they were. That's really low class, to insult the neighbourhood you serve. Wow.
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