I think I can keep this short because I reflect the sentiments of most of the reviews here. Charlotte W. gives the perfect details to Laily S.'s summary of this place:
"I don't come here for food/service. Just drinks and a nice patio in the summer."
I would just amend the service part, as the server I had was actually great but just was challenged to cover the tables. She had tables assigned to her across the entire restaurant so she had to run around the restaurant instead of working on an area (we had 8, another table had 20, etc...great for tips I'm sure but you really have to work for those especially if you are crossing the restaurant to attend your clients).
Layout was brutal, though I realize that this place is known mainly for the patio...which happened to be closed. I guess in Canada you really want your best feature to be your outdoor patio where you of course have the ability to keep it open for 8 months of the ye....wait a minute, this is canada, its backwards here....
So hopefully the higher prices helps this place make enough money during our limited patio season to hire someone to rearrange the interior.
I don't want to end off with people feeling that I was overly harsh on this place because really my critique has been on management (i,e, focus on a patio appeal as their main attribute, layout of the interior, etc).
The poutine I tried was greeeaaat! I never thought to mix ribs with poutine but now I can't think of how I ate it any other way.
The serving staff was good.
South of Temperance is a cool and mysterious name.
(FYI - the only Temperance I could find is 50 miles south of detroit so really South of Temperance is just the USA (which is their cuisine??...mystery solved I think...)