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Duke of Gloucester
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 12 pm - 2 am
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Music:
- Live, Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Fri
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
10 reviews for Duke of Gloucester
10 reviews in English
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Review from Eric L.
11/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
This pub is what I imagine a pub would be like in the UK in the 80's. I don't care of I'm right or wrong, but that's what it I feel, haha. The old carpet, the old wooden tables, the carpeted walls with old crests and photos. The old musty smell, the old bar with green stained glass. My point is, all this old stuff feels kind of cozy. It's a real hidden bar, above of an Indian restaurant and kind of tricky to find.
Their bar food is surprisingly above average in terms of quality and potion size and the service pretty friendly and quick.
Great place to grab a brew with a few friends, without too much traffic and a cozy ambiance. -
Review from Elaine K.
This is exactly what I thought bars were like when I was a kid.
This place is divey, like a dirty Cheers without the studio audience. The only music comes from the lone jukebox. Seating is strewn about the place and lower than it looks. The bar staff is friendly and the customers are talkative. It's your perfect bar. No pretension, just a bunch of people, looking for a good drink and a warm place to enjoy it.
The wings are straight out of a costco bag (breaded in a factory far far away and flash frozen), but the suicide was hot enough to make me remove my cardigan, which gives this place some points. Anyway, you don't come here for the food. You come here to forget about a girl. A girl who you would have married when you were young, if pride hadn't made you turn your back on your last chance at true love, a long, long time ago.
I'll be back, if only because I found the best place to stare wistfully into space over a cold pint.Listed in: Yelp 30-Day Challenge, Wing a Ding Ding!
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Review from laura s.
Toronto, ON
6/23/2011
It's a total dive but a great place if you like footy & english pubs. The staff are great & if you go a couple of times they treat you like one of the regulars. They have all the pub classics on the menu & the food is really well priced. I recommend friday's for fish & chip night.
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Review from Amber B.
Toronto, ON
6/15/2011
Really dive-y & fairly mediocre.. except for the prices. My friends and I got 3 or 4 plates of wings and 2 pitchers for something like 50 dollars? I found it to have a kind of crowd that are regulars there, which I was thrown off by, as I felt like an outsider. At the same time, I would go back because of the AMAZING prices... and the wings were really very good!
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Review from Jay K.
Toronto, ON
12/8/2009
Now don't hate me for saying it, but I don't know what the big deal is. Give me a Canadian pub any day of the week I'd say.
The jukebox was decent, but hardly the best in town (that credit goes to The Jersey Giant's selection on Front).
It could be that I'm not in love with Soccer (or English football) but I couldn't get used to the idea of being so close to other people, sitting in uncomfortable chairs and swizzling back expensive imports.
I don't think I'll be heading back to the Duke any time soon. -
Review from Dardana M.
ON
1/26/2009
I have only been here once, and that was to stalk the Kids in the Hall after their Massey Hall show last year. Did I say stalk? I mean, wake up out of my sleep after being tipped off to their presence and taking a cab there five minutes before last call.
As Connie said (apart from my personal, awesome experience), it seems like a pretty run of the mill kind of place. I cannot tell you much about the food (didn't eat it), or the beer (don't remember it), but I can tell you that if my comedy idols like it, then it's okay by me. Dave Foley himself told me that they used to come here back in the day for the fish and chips, so unless it's drastically gone downhill since then, it's probably good cuz Dave Foley don't lie. -
Review from Hassan A.
Toronto, ON
9/3/2010 1 Check-in Here
I love going to this place. Its always busy with lots of great football fans. I love their beers on tap. Their terrace is also really nice year round depending on the weather. The only problem I have is the body odor of some of the staff members. It really ruins the experience when I've got to smell the eau de b.o. when I am out for a drink...just saying
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Review from Tamar F.
11/5/2009
Ef, yeah, people. If you have to go to a bar in the Yonge/Bloor area (besides Hemingways, which is in tony Yorkville), this is it. Kinda divey, but laid back and fun.
It's convenient to UofT and the Bloor/Yonge area. Pub grub is surprisingly good... mmm perogies. Okay, well I'm 99% sure the perogies are those frozen ones you can buy at Loblaws, but still, with some fried onions & plenty of butter... yum.
The upper level of the pub is kinda divey, to say the least... its where the regulars hang. The bottom level (well, 2nd story) is a little more college-y. -
Review from Connie T.
Toronto, ON
12/23/2008
The Yonge + Bloor area isn't one of my top picks for areas to hang out in the city, but the Duke of Gloucester is not-bad divey Brit pub to kill time if I must hang out here.
It's not my favourite bar by any means -- their only highlight, to me, is their covered (and heated) rooftop patio, which takes me even further away from the blahness of Yonge Street.
I have no complaints or extreme praises about this place, really -- it's just a place to get together with a big group of friends, really. The service has always been efficient, and the food actually looks okay, in that typical Brit pub sort of way.
As long as it doesn't give me Brit sort of teeth, then I'm totally fine with anything the Duke throws at me. -
Review from Dan P.
Toronto, ON
3/31/2009
I used to be a regular here, and surprisingly enough the staff still remember me after long absences. It's a bit dingy, but the jukebox is probably the best in town, and if you're into English and Scottish Footie, the weekends in the morning make this place unbeatable.
