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| - I have lived here in Toronto for 3 months and passed this pub a few times at first. Then we ventured in when my old maw came over from Glasgow Scotland, & my wife's mum from Brazil (separately). I've genuinely lost count of how many times I've been in since, but it's from the sunny beer gardens catching the rays in fall at 4pm most days to the likes of the cold days now where we are so at home and on first name terms with the managers and most of the staff.
This review is not just to boost them up, but this is genuinely for credit where credit is due. The girls serving at the bar and the tables are so happy, chatty and attentive to all needs. Even when I say my mum has hearing disabilities and we are kindly given a quiet zone through the back. Easy to catch the eye of our table hostess, and are never waiting long for our orders.
I was dubious at first with the authentic British style pub look (which is why I took so long to enter) but it has an amazing, friendly, and on game days electric atmosphere. If fact there has been one occassion we passed to go to the pub up the road just for a change but it was so empty we returned and we were so glad we did.
The food for tradition pub grub is the bees-knees, (4.9* 9.5/10 fandabidozi) fantastic, even the striploin steak which I normally wait for a steak house was amazing. Don't forget the sweet potato fries. Wow!
I have had the burgers, steak, poutine, bacon caesar salad and their fish n chips. I loved them all, especially washed down with good pint of their West Coast Mill Street IPA. I can never seem to change it up. The drink and beer selection is extensive also.
I am enjoying this place so much not only is it our local but we are now having a birthday function in the amazing upstairs room with their own bar I didn't even know existed until my last time in there, and now they are open for Xmas day it's looking good for that too.
I don't always have the finances to eat or drink out at the moment but when I do, it's a 98% certainty it will be there at the D.O.K.
Nialle, Kate and all the staff thanks for the endless hospitality you have always shown my family and I before we even spoke, and please thank all the girls too, you can't do it without them. Until the next time. Slanja/cheers.
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