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  • It's a bonus when your co-workers aren't just good people who are good at their jobs, but also the sort of people you'd out go for a beer with too. During our week in Toronto, one of my co-workers had made it clear that her only goal for the entire trip was to visit the Wheat Sheaf Tavern, so following our great meal at La Fenice (see my review: http://bit.ly/WXIxZG) we hoofed it the five or so blocks up King Street to one of Toronto's most iconic dive bars. According to its website, the Wheat Sheaf is amongst Toronto's oldest taverns, dating back 18 years before Canada's 1867 Confederation. That's worth a beer or two right there. I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting the Wheat Sheaf to be, but maybe something that more reflected its century and a half history. Instead what we found was more akin to a neighborhood watering hole that you might find in any city anywhere. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing special either. I think Yelper Mike P. described it exactly right when he wrote, "This place recently went through some kind of renovations - congratulations, it's been successfully updated from the 1970's to the 1990's" (http://bit.ly/YNSVP0). We sat at the bar and I started out with a Creemore Springs (http://www.creemoresprings.com) , a premium lager brewed about 1.5 hours north of Toronto. For the second round I ordered a Tankhouse, a pale ale brewed by the Mill St. Brewery (http://www.millstreetbrewery.com), located in Toronto's Distillery District. How cool that Toronto has a Distillery District! That is definitely on my "must visit" list for my next trip. My companion was perfectly content to stick with Steam Whistle, a pilsner from one of Toronto's best known micro breweries (http://www.steamwhistle.ca). I appreciate that there were so many local options to choose from. I'll never understand people who travel to distant locales and then order Budweiser. Although we didn't have any food, the menu is pretty basic pub grup. I'll leave it to the others here on Yelp who have eaten at the Wheat Sheaf to provide their comments beyond that. Over the two or so hours we spent just hanging out, we had nice conversations with the bartenders and a few locals. It was a pretty chill evening, but despite the notoriety that comes with its storied history, the Wheat Sheaf didn't feel like anything special to me, so I think I'll seek out other unique pubs to visit upon future visits to Toronto.
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