Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Im heading West to the Toronto for a few days this month and wondered what the cognoscenti thought were the best pubs in Toronto.

Of course this is subjective but for the record Im a real ale lover who is more of a brown pub kind of guy.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.

Oh and I'll be staying downtown.

Thanks

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by a brown pub, but C'est What? has a large number of brown-nosing real ale / microbrewery afficienados.

dbd33 will be along soon with the definitive answer though.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Downtown.

Most beers and ciders: C'est What? Wear a beret, carry a volume of poetry in another language.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Snap! or Jinx! or whatever it is here.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Bar Volo also offers a range of beer but you'll feel you've bought the building, not just the beer.

If I may offer a stronge negative suggestion, the Beer Bistro, if not yet bankrupt, deserves to be.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

No snap. I beat you by 3 minutes.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

I type slowly when I've been grouting.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Doesn't one all? Where BTW is Bar Volo?

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Yonge and Wellesley, didn't we go there once for board related drinking?

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Sorry. Been out with the dog.

Define "we". I don't know it at all.

On edit, I don't think I'd wander sight unseen into a place called Bar Volo, ignorant as I am about what Volo might mean in the current language of the street.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Queen and Beaver.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

The Queen and Beaver on Elm Street - Good food, reasonable range of beer (according to OH) and if you are into watching football they show live matches - at Stupid o`Clock !

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

I haven't lived in Toronto for over 15 years but this place always had good real ale

http://casktoronto.wordpress.com/events/

and it looks like they are combining a real ale/curry night that has ties to St Georges Day

Here is the Volo blog

http://blog.barvolo.com/

If ever in the Outaouais here is a good pub

http://www.brasseursdutemps.com/english

http://www.brasseursdutemps.com/rest...s-delicatessen

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Not downtown, but Allen's on Danforth has an excellent range of beers, and a lovely patio to boot.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

How have I missed that pub. I've been down that road umpteen times and have never noticed it.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

There's that Granite Brewpub place on Eglington that Messrs dbd33 and Novo and I met up in a few years back. No idea what it is like now. http://www.granitebrewery.ca/ The beer, from what I recall, was pretty good.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Thanks all.

This is great.

I never knew Toronto had so many good places to drink.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Here it is...it is an old restored water works building or something like that. From what I gather from the website the beer is sold at a number of deps and other bars in the area. The two most popular draught beers are also featured at large tables that seat 10 or so. They have a tap in the middle of the table and you fill your glass from there and pay based on volume (I was told there really isn't any savings but it is just a fun way for a group to self serve)

http://g.co/maps/s2fam

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

I agree and was going to suggest it, but it's not really downtown (although very easily accessible on the tube).

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

Well, if we can list country places (and I do very much like Allen's) then The Feathers on Kingston Road is a proper pub with real ale. So's that place on Eglinton, the Granite Brewery.

On edit, must have hallucinated the absence of the past few posts, better have a drink.

Re: Best Pub in Toronto?
 

If you want good food to compliment good beer try "The Wellington".

http://www.barwellington.ca/