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The Beer Store - Thorncliffe
Category: Food Beer, Wine & Spirits Beer, Wine & Spirits [Edit]
45 Overlea BlvdToronto, ON M4H 1C3
(416) 425-1093
- Hours:
Mon-Wed 10 am - 8 pm
Thu-Fri 10 am - 9 pm
Sat 9:30 am - 9 pm
Sun 12 pm - 5 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
One review for The Beer Store - Thorncliffe
1 review in English
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Review from Patrick M.
Toronto, ON
10/5/2011
This is a particularly small, nondescript Beer Store located in the parking lot of the local Thorncliffe Park mall.
The community around it is comprised of largely middle-eastern ex-pats of various origins -- typically quiet, keep-to-themselves, polite, courteous, notably pious, and not really the sort to give much patronage to a Beer Store. I enjoyed how safe the neighbourhood felt. In short, it isn't really a "beer" kinda place...
It shows in the shop. Small and carrying a minimal selection, this Beer Store handles customers with a kind of bored efficiency -- really, the place could be 100% computerized and I doubt anyone would really notice. Its slow pace stands in stark contrast to the long lines and hordes of returns that clog up many a Beer Store. That, at least, is a nice, positive change.
Still, I imagine most of the people who frequent it are largely institutionalized at this point: they live and drink every day like any other, buying Coors or Bud or Labbats or, if it's a special occasion, maybe Molson Ex or Rickard's Red. Guinness is a novelty, spoken of in hushed, reverent tones. "One day..."
I once asked if they could get me La Fin du Monde and they looked at me like I had just spoken in tongues. I now know that Beer Stores don't really bring in special orders -- even if it's a product carried at a nearby Beer Store -- but you'd think their employees would at least know it by name.
Anyway, I feel somewhat wistful towards this particular Beer Store. I miss it, as mediocre and almost-but-not-quiet-forgettable as it is. It's a curiosity, an enigma, even, and I like that.
It just isn't an especially good place to buy beer.Listed in: 30 in 30? Quantity & Quality!
