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Crown and Tiger
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Music:
- Background, Karaoke
- Best Nights:
- Thu
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
15 reviews for Crown and Tiger
15 reviews in English
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Review from Jen W.
Scarborough, ON
10/19/2011
Went to the Tiger bar downstairs for a concert and even though there were no more then 20 ppl downstairs It was alot of fun. Really small and kinda dark but I loved it. The unisex bathroom behind the stage with no door is a bit shifty since you cannot open the bathroom door without walking next to someone at the urnial...... but little did I know at the time there were other bathrooms upstairs just reaaally packed. With beer as cheap as it was, you were better off taking a blind eye to the dude at the urnial..
Booze was cheap, cover was 5 bucks, def worth checking out. -
Review from Jason B.
York, ON
11/22/2011 1 Check-in Here
The cook here apparently doesn't know her own menu - my $6 caesar salad arrived without bacon bits. The waiter literally had to argue with her to get me my bacon. When it arrived, it was chicken or turkey bacon, and strips that I had to cut up myself.
Later, a friend ordered the same salad and was told bacon was $1 extra.
The service as well is fairly slow, and the waiter shortchanged two of my friends, saying "I don't have a dollar on me right now" and expecting the friend to say "oh that's ok, just keep it as change".
This is just not acceptable.
After a look at their washrooms, I am seriously wondering how this place is still open. -
Review from Vivek S.
7/13/2011 1 Check-in Here
It was half past midnight on Friday night. I was catching some nocturnal rays from the glow of my laptop screen. Yelping. That's when my stomach started talking, and it wasn't to chat. It was saying, listen up bub, and not in a friendly way. I'd forgotten to eat. Again.
Out of instinct, I reached for the nearest iPhone-shaped object. Turned out to be an iPhone. Lucky. I punched the Yelp burst and did a search for what was open. Slim pickins. I did the same search on my laptop (it was right in front of me after all) and turned up the same. Nada. Nil. Nothing.
Then, that closeby iPhone-shaped object started to buzz. It was my pal Dick. He was at the Crown and Tiger. Boozin'. I looked blankly into the night for a long, long time then started to punch out a text: "Is their kitchen still open?" I slammed the laptop shut before waiting for the answer, and walked out the door.
So yeah, I'm that guy who cabbed over to Crown and Tiger well past midnight, elbowed my way through intoxicated college kids (and on that particular night, soused lawyers) and "enjoyed" a club sandwich that might as well have been pulled out of a sock. The pile of fries next to it only added insult to injury. Serves me right for being a grown man (technically) and not having sufficient dietary planning skills.
That said, the drinks are not costly in this dive and I had a reasonably good time here.
Obligatory Title Pun: This TONY is anything but.
Menu Readability: I actually phoned in my order. I'm a douche, I know.
Need to mention: Patio.
What this place teaches me about myself: Skipping a meal is forgivable -- but all three? That's just weird. -
Review from Eric L.
6/10/2011
This place is all about the service. Not too big, yet not too small, there are multiple servers, and they don't really seem to have their own "zones" in the bar & patio. They all cared about how our drinks were doing and were all friendly and talkative.
The patio is right on the sidewalk and has a few nice trees just in front of it. The prices were just right too, I forget what exactly I paid, but I remember thinking how cheap it was for 2 pints and 2 cesars.
Why only 3 stars? Another average looking pub. The inside is nothing to look at it. It seems old and dilapidated, the patio is nothing to write home about, but that's not what you focus on when you come here. -
Review from William T.
Scarborough, ON
6/28/2011
Nice little college bar. I discovered while at a friends b-day celebration.
I ordered the Coney Fries & Onion Rings
The Coney fries were basically their house fries topped with beef, beans, & cheese. Think Chili fries minus the chili sauce. The fries were thin cut with stringy cheese to top it. I found it strange that there was no actual Chilli on the fries as last time I went there was.
The Onion Rings were delicious and fried to a golden brown not overtly oily. Optimal onion rings.
I was considering getting poutine, but I forwent that & got a basket of house fries. Coney Fries that time were mildly disappointing & I HAD to have the house fries to redeem my love for Crown & Tiger. Fries were fried to perfection & evenly seasoned.
I saw "$12 for 4 shots of tequila/Jager" scribbled on a chalkboard on the wall. An optimal value for the drunkard or someone wanting to get wasted on the cheap.
$20 including tip an alright price for three different items.
I will return eventually. -
Review from Yvonne T.
4/26/2011 1 Check-in Here
Came to Crown & Tiger with boyfriend after a short dinner with friends at La Palette. He had told me he wasn't that hungry so we got the duck confit (single leg) to share. He also wasn't feeling very well, so I thought that that would be enough for us. Keeping in mind I had had a family dinner prior and was really just there to see some old friends, and that I just ate the accompanying veggies.
Well... it turns out that I underestimated boyfriend's appetite, and so we went over to the Crown & Tiger (as he had previously been here before and really enjoyed the Coney fries). Boyfriend tends to like the pubs. I have been to Fossil & Haggis in Scarborough 3 times in one week since we met. I think I'm turning into a pub whore now. Oi!
We ordered the Coney Fries AND Onion Rings... I think boyfriend is trying to fatten me up to weed out the competition? And just the day before when we were at Fossil & Haggis he had sworn off late night, greasy pub fare. Apparently tonight was an exception because the ungratifying portions of French food at La Palette left more to be desired.
The Coney fries were basically their house fries topped with beef, beans, and cheese. Think Chili fries minus the chili sauce. The fries were thin cut (my preference), and the cheese was stringy. However, the chef must've been falling asleep (seeing as it was 12:30AM, this is quite possible), and some parts of the fries were overly salted. Yikes!
The Onion Rings were delicious and fried to a golden brown.
During dinner at La Palette the topic of poutine came up. Boyfriend had kidded while we were chowing down the Onion Rings and Coney Fries that he might order Poutine. Alas, he did not end up ordering la Poutine, but he did go ahead and order another basket of house fries. He said the Coney Fries were disappointing and he just HAD to have the house fries to redeem his love for Crown & Tiger. And so redemption was found in the house fries. This time, the chef probably woke up, as there were no randomly, heavily salted fries.
We didn't have any drinks as I was driving and Boyfriend isn't much of a drinker. But I did see "$12 for 4 shots of tequila/Jager" scribbled on a chalkboard on the wall. This place could bring the phrase "cheap drunk" from a cliché to reality. 1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, FLOOR!
The damage at the end of the day was $20 including tip. Not bad considering we ordered 3 different items. -
Review from Angela H.
4/5/2009
The only reason we went to the Crown and Tiger was because we had already gone to Sneaky Dee's earlier that evening, went to a show, and decided to have a couple of drinks afterwards. We felt weird about going back to Dee's again, in case we got the same waitress as before.
"Oh hi, just us again!"
Crown and Tiger has a bunch of wooden booths, and a couple of living room setups for a comfortable area for bigger groups. There was barley anyone there, however the DJ was blaring mid-90's ironic hip hop songs, as if it was a huge party jam. The music was way too loud, and since it was basically empty in the bar, in between songs it would get awkwardly quiet.
Because it is almost directly across the street from Sneaky Dee's, we could see it out the front window of the Crown and Tiger, and in a weird way, it felt like we were cheating on our friend. I am so sorry, bud! I will never come back to this place again. Please forgive me. -
Review from Jason A.
Etobicoke, ON
6/25/2010
Don't eat here... but use that money and buy some of their cheap drinks!
This is one of my favourite places to stop off for a cheap pint / pitcher or round of Jager Shots... but you probably aren't going to want to stay.
It's pretty sketchy and the bathroom are half-functional, sometimes with a layer of water on the floor and only one of the three stalls operational. -
Review from Eleanor V.
North York, ON
4/17/2011 1 Check-in Here
If you want cheap drinks after a hard day of work this is the place. They have cheap pints, cheap pitchers and you can get a bucket of beer (4 bottles) for $12. The food is alright. Typical pub food and its good for a price. The music isn't my taste when I was there and it looks like dive. But that's not what you paid for you are there to have fun with friends, munch on some nachos and drink beer!
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Review from Dale M.
Toronto, ON
12/12/2009
Ubersketch
What do you get when you mix a College and Spadina location with $10 pitchers of local beer?
It's a rhetorical question - if you know the area, you know the answer. This place has laminate floors, halfway-functional bathrooms, a really "interesting" crowd and cheap beer. We made spot #15 on my epic birthday bender the port of last call on our Queen-to-College-to-Spadina crawl, and realized almost immediately that we should have stayed at the last bar instead (Ted's - review forthcoming).
Even with $10 pitchers the place wasn't packed - the rest of the market isn't so sure about this place either. While we were there, though, I witnessed quite possibly the funniest thing I had seen all weekend: two drunken twenty-somethings, forgetting their own strength this late in the evening, clinked their glasses together so enthusiastically that they shattered one of them. What a waste of beer.Listed in: Epic Birthday Bender
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Review from Rachel L.
Toronto, ON
11/1/2009
Halloween night and my friend wants to meet up with another friend at Tiger Bar. What is Tiger Bar? It's a very not fun dance party in the basement of the Crown and Tiger that plays bad music, yells at its patrons, and is so not that cool that in my two years at UofT and living down the street from Tiger Bar, I had never heard of it.
Even if it is Halloween, being told that my American ID would not be accepted is never pleasant. What am I supposed to do, huh? I already showed you my American credit cards, foreign student health card, and offered to sing a song listing all 50 states in alphabetical order. What else could I do? Really?
Downstairs, I asked if they take requests for music. I was told "No" and then asked what my request was. Then it was a flat out "NO." Thanks, guys. Your party still sucks.
The patrons were not my cup of tea (When the girls in the sexually amplified ensembles rush the costume contest, it is my cue to leave) and the drinks were expensive. Five bucks for Canadian? Forget it. -
Review from Sophia K.
Toronto, ON
5/4/2009
This is such a large space and prime location, I really wish the owner would invest some time in it, cause it has such potential. But despite the lack of ambiance I find myself at Crown & Tiger now and again for lack of another venue, and I'm usually not disappointed.
They have a front patio AND a back patio which I don't think a lot of people know about. Also they have some pretty sweet drink deals....like buckets of Mill St. for 10 bucks or something along those lines. And while it can seem a little dark and depressing inside, if you're there with the right people, the decor won't really matter!
I have also been on a couple Tuesdays where they have "The Comedy Hole", which is an open mike for amateur comedians. It's something different to check out during the week if you've got some time to kill and some friends to spend it with. Also I should add I've tried the nachos and they get 5 stars! -
Review from Angela L.
10/30/2009
The place was packed when we walked into the door on a Friday night. The heavily accented server was really friendly right off the bat and told us to wait a second while she shuffled some people around to accommodate us. We thought this was very nice and kind of strange, but no one who got moved around really seemed to mind, so it all worked out.
So what will it be? Jagger shots? Pitcher of beer? Sangria? Heck, who cares, why not one of each? That's what my train of thought was when trying to order off of the surprisingly large $10 drink specials menu. It's a great deal no doubt, but use your better judgment and try to use some restraint. It's not free, after all!
From the multi-paged food menu, we got the golden fried chicken fingers and battery fish and chips. They both came with a hay stack each of crispy skinny frites and not enough tiny packages of sauces.
The cover band that was playing from the front of the room was much too loud, but since it was our second bar and we were coming from a show, it might have just been our ears that were ringing... -
Review from Catherine M.
ON
12/3/2008
This bar from the outside appears to be your standard pub, with its heraldic name and rows of booths inside. But like all good things, this bar has a few hidden secrets of its own.
The pub itself is decent enough, with a good selection of drinks and such, a tiny patio in the warmer times of year and regular entertainment like karaoke, performances and other pub nights.
The hidden secret? Well, not too much of a secret after all, but hidden in the basement of Crown and Tiger is another bar! Called Tiger Bar! It's a dance party type hole in the wall. Different nights of the week feature different DJs spinning, and the cover to get in to the Tiger Bar is separate and distinct from the pub above. The dance parties are usually bumping well into the wee hours of the morning, and the basement bar serves a limited amount of drinks (the main offering seeming to be Pabst Blue Ribbon, aka hipster nectar). The basement can be overcrowded and oversweaty, and doesn't feature anything spectacular besides great music and a jungle themed mural. Take a chance, try it out, you might meet some sweet sweaty stranger down there in the dark! -
Review from Nick A.
Toronto, ON
8/11/2009
I go to this bar a lot because it's near where I live and it has cheap beer. This place is the definition of adequate. There is plenty of seating, the service is pretty good, and you can get multiple types of beer at ten dollars a pitcher which is perfect for my student budget. The nachos are also good.
When I just want to have a couple beers with friends the Crown and Tiger fits the bill. It's not too loud or crowded that it becomes uncomfortable. If you want a bar with really good food or really lively atmosphere however there are better places to go nearby.
