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  • The owner, Gus, lead the charge to make the Junction "Wet" after local temperance crusader William "Temperance Willie" Temple died in the late 1980s. Temple's ghost "haunted" the area, because he won two-more temperance related plebiscites posthumously, before Gus's pro-drinking side finally won the right to make the Junction-area, east of Keele Street, wet in the year 2000 municipal elections. I mention this, because it is kind of important to the history of the area: Shoxs was the first drinking establishment in the eastern part of the Junction neighbourhood since 1903! This is a sports bar, and also a pool hall. It is also an NTN/Buzztime trivia facility, which is how I first heard of it. There is a regular crowd of locals, but this place really comes to life during Maple Leafs games, or other marquee sports events (plenty of TVs to choose from at the bar, including a few in true-HD Quality). Like many of my other reviews of bars in the area with pool-tables, I don't play, but apparently the people that do, like it. If you don't like a sports-centric pool hall bar, than more than likely, you are not going to like this place. I happen to like this kind of venue, but in moderation of course. I have only had good experiences with the service here. When Gus isn't out politicking, he sometimes fills in as a late-night cook, once the evening chef leaves for the night. I have seen him specially fry something up for me, after midnight, when the kitchen was "officially" closed. The wait-staff have always been friendly to me, but I'm hardly the type of customer that puts much, if any, demands on the wait-staff. Another thing going for it is its downstairs section. There is a comedy night every month, usually on the last Friday. Other events happen down there, but I do occasionally attend the comedy night, which is pretty good, and filled with local West Toronto Junction talent. The beer selection is mostly Molson products, so don't expect Black Oak's 10 Bitter Years beer here, but if you want to play trivia, play a round of pool, or be surrounded by fellow Leafs fans during a game, Shoxs is hard to top.
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