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Kilgour's Bar Meets Grill
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Music:
- Background
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Has TV:
- Yes
11 reviews for Kilgour's Bar Meets Grill
11 reviews in English
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Review from Rob C.
Toronto, ON
2/21/2012
Now I do have a bias based on the fact that I came here for years and have made friends with some of the staff and talk to the owners. They are great friendly folk.
They can have times where they have staff turn over and may not have the same level of quality you'd remember from previous visits. This is a truth about most places. The one thing that has never changed and is still a culinary marvel to this day is their chi-bacon.
Now before you start scanning the menu understand that you won't find it. And it's not available everyday. It's those magic moments when it lands in front of you on your plate that you thank the starts you stopped in again. Chi-bacon happens only on a weekend brunch when they have to pre cook some bacon to keep up with orders and then flash fry the rest in the deep fryer before putting it on your plate. This is not necessarily out of the ordinary. It's after a night of many wing orders (say a well attended Habs game night) and they are not due to change the oil that the flavour magic sets the stage. The bacon finishes it's cooking in a flash that gives it an amazing crispiness and in the same lubricated swan dive picks up the succulent exiting flavour of chicken wings. It's a marriage of flavour that still brings tears to my eyes.
For this, this reason, I'll always make my way back there. -
Review from Blair M.
2/2/2012 4 Check-ins Here
The only thing that needs to be said about Kilgour's is that its a Habs bar!!!!!
As a Montrealer and huge Habs fan I have a very special place in my heart for a bar in the middle of Leafs nation that is able to be packed with Habs fans on any game night.
I have no idea what this place is like on any other day of the week when they aren't playing Habs games but I really don't care either, for me its all about Good beer great wings and watching the best hockey team in the world.
GO HABS GO!!!!! AND GO KILGOUR'S GO!!!!!! -
Review from Andrea H.
4/17/2011
This is a Habs bar, I'm a Habs fan, and I come here for one reason - to watch hockey. For that purpose, it's one of the best places in the city. This was my spot for the historic Canada-US men's gold medal game in 2010 and my favourite place for watching the playoffs. I come with a friend who is a regular, and we're treated very well by the friendly owners and staff (even though my friend has a tragic character flaw: he's a Bruins fan.) Much of the decor comes from the old Forum, and the place will warm the heart of any displaced hockey-loving Montrealer.
The staff are efficient and friendly and remember your drink even if you're not a regular. I haven't explored much of the menu, but the nachos are good, and there's a small but decent selection of beer on tap.
For important hockey games, it's important to either reserve or come early; one of the reasons it's a great place to watch the game is that they turn people away if they fill up, which they often do. The regulars here have known each other for years, show up in full regalia, and tolerate each others' quirks (including my friend's inexplicable team choice.) There's plenty of good-natured ribbing, but nothing nasty is tolerated. The crowd is really the main attraction of this place. For celebrating Habs playoff runs and mourning the sadly-too-frequent defeats, these are the people you want to be with. -
Review from shyni y.
3/6/2011
This place is always a fallback for me. I think I go here among the pubs on Bloor street because it actually has booth area.
Mondays are particularly great cuz it's Scrabble night and even if you don't play, you can people watch - word nerds having a blast of a time.
The staff is friendly enough, but the speed of service here is an issue.
It seems to take longer and longer each time I go.
The last time I went, the food order for each of us came at different times; in fact, when I was done, my friend's order came and when she was done, her boyfriend's order came. It was as if they timed it this way.
Awkward? a little; we came to dine together , not watch each other eat.
And while the food is not that mind blasting, they charge very close to what other refined establishments like Alice Fazoolis' charge.
Awkward, again.
Thank goodness for other pubs opening - I won't have to fall back to this place too often.Listed in: Best Happy Hour +, Dining quiet
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Review from Victoria S.
Toronto, ON
Updated - 7/4/2011
my relationship with kilgours is on a steady downhill slope. i feel like an idiot for giving it a good review.
it used to be the top of the brunch list (as odd as that might be) it has recently fallen to the bottom (which might seem less odd). either way, the brunch was good and now it's not. we've given it 3 tries to see if maybe we just caught them on an off day, but each time the food has been poorly prepared (and bad) and the service has been slow. it wasn't even busy and i don't have any patience for that.
they still have a nice patio and the drinks are fine, so i haven't completely written it off. but i'm severely dissapointed.Listed in: brunch, best happy hour
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1/24/2011
yes. yes. yes. i love this place. initially i was hesitant (being that i'm a leafs fan and all), but… Read more »
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Review from susan c.
9/29/2009
Honestly, there is nothing about this bar that distinguishes it from the string of other generic bars serving good beers and middling food on Bloor EXCEPT:
== Scrabble nights on Mondays from 7-10 pm ==
(So Mondays are four stars cuz Yay! I'm a fan!)
This is when word nerds come to battle it out for double-letter spots and triple-word scores without fear of judgement from non-word nerdy patrons or impatient eye rolls from tip-mongering servers.
Kat F. and I lingered here for a couple of hours over a game. About five other tables had games going as well. You could feel the word-freakiness in the room as players "racked" their brains for 7-letter bingos. In other words, pure heaven for me.
At the waiter's own admission, the food is meh. Frozen filets for fish 'n chips, frozen veggie burger patties, withered fries. However, they do have decent beers on tap: Creemore, Mill St, Wellington County Dark Ale, etc.
So I'll be back on Monday nights--with my Diamond Anniversary Scrabble board, Scrabble dictionary, and a full stomach. -
Review from Chris G.
Whitby, ON
Updated - 10/13/2011
Just a quick update here. Stopped in at Kilgour's last Saturday with the missus for one last pint before we hit the subway. The Habs were off so the place was quiet. We were in for a pint, no food, and grabbed a table close to where we had sat 2 weeks before. The server came over and asked us if we wanted the same 2 beers, listing off both beers, and who was drinking what! We never really made an impression our last visit, keeping to ourselves as we watched the Habs but this girl remembered our drinks?? Must say, quite impressed. Go to Kilgour's.
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9/21/2011
It's a well-known Habs bar and is perfect for that reason alone.
Took the missus here last night for… Read more »
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Review from Alexander L.
Toronto, ON
9/10/2010
Outstanding establishment. Not your run-of the mill bar. Part of me doesn't want to review it positively for fear of the hoi polloi coming.
Super-friendly owners and staff, excellent food (really, everything on the menu is really rather good), premiership football on the telly when available, and scrabble night on Mondays (whilst I play scrabble here regularly, still not ventured down on Monday but I hear it's excellent). However, it's a habs bar, but why dwell on that.
I'm not one for 5 star ratings, but this is probably my favourite place in the city (along with pho hung) so why not. -
Review from Angela H.
4/14/2009
Kilgour's was our fallback last night, because Grapefruit Moon was closed. I have never been here before, but always see it's packed on Saturday and Sunday mornings for brunch. It's smaller inside than I imagined.
We cozied up on the couch seats in the front window. Kilgour's has a homey-feel to it, so it was easy to get comfortable. Mismatched furniture, table collages with pictures of the bar's friends, and local photographer's prints decorate this little bar.
It was an okay place to be, though the busier it got, the more out of place we felt. We then remembered that Kilgour's hosts Scrabble night every Monday. Looking around, we realized that we were taking up the biggest table, and were the only ones not playing word games. If we were playing, I'd have spelt out L-E-T-S-G-O (double letter score, of course), because there were surely other players who'd have wanted our seats. -
Review from Anna V.
Toronto, ON
10/22/2008
It's all about the nachos here.
When you could smoke inside, I used to love going to this Irish pub (but not part of the Firkin chain thank God) and eating the hell out of their nachos.
There really isn't anything over the top new about this spot. Friendly, pub-style staff. Decent, but smallish patio. regular wings and hockey game menu. But there is quite a few little touches that make it worth while. The little things, like extra jalapenos on your nachos and legitimately hot "suicidal" wings. -
Review from Shannon P.
Toronto, ON
5/30/2011
This is one of my favorite places to hang out in the Annex. The patio's fantastic, there's good beer on tap, and the nachos are worth every penny. Wings are great, too, and this is a frequent brunch stop for my friends and I. The other reviews are right: amazing hollandaise sauce! This place is a lot of fun to watch hockey games at (especially Leafs/Habs games!), and on Hockey Day in Canada, the brothers (Kilgour) make their special chili for charity, and celebrate all day. The greatest thing about this place is that it's owned by real people who are involved in our community. Sure, the service can be frustrating, sometimes, but it's worth it! Best ever: Santa Claus Parade brunch (if you can get a table).
