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667 King St W
Toronto, ON M5V 1M9
Neighbourhood: Niagara
(416) 504-9912
Toronto, ON M5V 1M9
Neighbourhood: Niagara
(416) 504-9912
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Music:
- Live
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Sat, Sun
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
16 reviews for Wheat Sheaf Tavern
All Reviews
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
8/13/2010
Hi,
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Think it is absolutely awesome to have a bit of history retained in a place like this.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
7/18/2010
A real non-yuppified pub in the King West area. It's a bit dark inside but that's how a pub should be. Friendly and relatively prompt service we got 30 wings and 2 pitchers of beer on a Sunday night for $60. Awesome.
I would disregard the negative review about their greek salad, a place like this shouldn't even have salad on the menu.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
5/9/2010
Working class bar in the midst of King/Bathurst? Yes please! A terribly yuppie neighbourhood has very few of these sports bar, watering hole type bars. I'm impressed this place exists on this corner and hasn't been driven out yet.
Kind of a two-star place that is boosted by another 2 stars because 1) The service was impeccable and 2) I hate to loss of the "blue-collar bar" in downtowns.
Now as others have said, the service can be hit and miss. But I got the "bearish" server who was nothing but excellent. We had just finished a massive dinner and the thought of ordering more than a water or diet coke seemed impossible. We ended up staying for 2 hockey games (6ish hours)- and just ordered pop and the server was nice, attentive and didn't hassle us to order more in a busy bar.
That's the kind of service I like. I sometimes feel bad about ordering so little, but I make it up by giving excellent reviews and bringing them more business = )
ps: a great place to end up for teh playoffs- big screen with sound.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
3/17/2010
One of my favourite places to watch hockey in the city. There isn't a direction you can turn without facing several large screens with the game on. The place fills with fans when The Leafs are playing, and they're the kind of fans that will tell you "This is the year we get the cup!", regardless of how bad our boys are doing.
Great pub fare, for what it is. I liked the fish & chips & the nachos, and I can get stout on tap, so I'm pleased. It's also a good place to go after a night at the theatre (King St. theatre district). It's within walking distance, it's warm and intimate, and service is prompt. Also, they have a great patio in the summer.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
5/15/2010
I was just craving a salad and was in the area. I decided to go to the wheat sheaf and order a greek salad. Big mistake. It was gross. Probably the worst salad I have ever tasted. The dressing had no flavor and the cucumbers and tomatoes were sliced so small or too big. It was very unprofessional. I would not return.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
5/19/2010
2 Check-ins Here
A great place to watch the fights. There is not a seat in the house that doesn't face a large flatscreen. Service is fast and very accommodating. Even on busy nights (like fight nights) the staff will work hard to get you a table. However, I seam to get great service where others get lousy service. The food is junkfood piled atop junk food. It is the only place I've been to in years that serves hot dogs. With oodles of seating this is a great place to meet people for a game / fight or before going to some pretentious club on King West.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
7/20/2009
Like many other Torontonians, the only thing that ever brings me to this pub are their 1/2-price Wings nights (every Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays) - a super great deal and all you have to do is buy a drink. Seriously, where else would you be able to get 50 wings for $15? Occasionally over-fried, the wings themselves are generally alright with your typical range of sauces including Hot and Honey Garlic. That's pretty much as exciting as it gets. Go hungry, cause the wings are pretty big. Sure, at the time, you think, "Ya, let's split 50 wings between the 2 of us. That sounds reasonable", and then by wing #12 you're about to pass out.
Now the atmosphere itself is alright as well - while I'm not a huge sports gal, they do play about 3 different channels simultaneously, so there's always something to watch. On our last visit we realized just how much better watching WWE was with no sound on. The service is always quick and friendly and they have a nice selection of beers available. Expect lots of dudes at this joint.
All in all, pretty average food but a great deal on decent wings. The rest of the menu is ho-hum (rumours are the Drunken Chicken is A-OK), but great for a cheapo night out with wings, beers, and some buddies.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
6/1/2009
Always a great place to go as the staff is always friendly and on top of your order. If you are new to this pub understand this: It's the Oldest Bar in Toronto with a ton of history (read it on the menu).
The food on the menu is okay but it's not a restaurant ..... it's a pub so get the beer and wings.
Definitely a landmark in King West!
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
2/26/2009
Oldest bar in the city, eh? That sounds like fun - i'm all for nostalgia and antiquity. The Wheat Sheaf is your typical downtown Toronto bar that doesn't pretend to be something it's not. 8-10 beers on tap, half price wings 3 nights/week (their suicide sauce is fantastic, and the blue cheese they use here is wicked), plenty of seating room and TVs, and overall just a good place to go with friends to drink, eat, talk, laugh, catch up on sports, and have a relaxing good time. The place doesn't look all that old because it's been renovated, but the bricks outside still scream history. Another cool thing about this place is that they have celebs sign the walls and then put pieces of plexiglass over the signatures to preserve them - the great number 4, Bobby Orr adorns the wall with his John Hancock and that's pretty cool. I think I saw Doug Gilmour's scribbled on there too.
I'd love to be able to call this place my local neighborhood pub, and you're lucky if you can! My family and I had 15 beers and 40 wings for $100 - not too shabby.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
4/21/2009
I've noticed that several other Toronto Yelpers have already checked out the Sheaf, but far be it from me to not toss in my two pfennigs.
I have this weird contradictory complex about the Wheat Sheaf. Yes, I love it for its history and old tavern house look (something I miss from my days in Boston), and I'm almost always there for the wings, but the truth is that the Wheat Sheaf breaks my heart.
Apart from the wings, most of the fare seems pretty basic pubgrub: mostly fried foods that are slightly overpriced for what you're getting, and lacking in originality or much flavour. The wings are not the best I've had (I have to go to New Jersey for that), but they aren't the worst in Toronto either. They're a crapshoot really; some nights they're awesome (large, moist, flavourful) and then there are nights when I think the cook needs a whack on the head.
Driving the Bathurst streetcar one afternoon, I remarked on the PA system how the Sheaf was the oldest pub in TO. One passenger remarked, "And its where the beer is always flat!" and I couldn't disagree. A fellow Yelper's comment that he had witnessed the bartender water down the premium suds with the cheapo stuff confirmed my fears as to why my Rickard's Red there just wasn't the same as I'd find it elsewhere.
But for all its popularity, the Wheat Sheaf's greatest crime is how its jumped on the sportsbar bandwagon and hasn't really made more use of its unique history. Do we really need another pub with flatscreens everywhere beaming the games down to us (especially with a new, though inferior, St. Louis' down the street)? The opportunities that the Sheaf loses in its flattened beer, dull pubgrub, anachronistic sportsbarisms, and general lack of imagination with its history makes me give it three out of five... barely. Good thing the wings are (more often than not) decent.
Listed in: Winging It
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
4/3/2009
If you hear people talking about Wheat Sheaf it's always in reference to two things:
- suspected food poisoning
- the fact that it's the oldest bar in Toronto and located at the oldest intersection
Wheat Sheaf is essentially a really popular place for people to watch sports games of all kinds - I recently joined some friends for drinks and a Leafs game. Service was obscenely slow and I'd go as far as to say absent altogether - I had to get up several times to order my drink from the bar. Maybe on games nights there just isn't any table service? I don't know.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
9/10/2008
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Yummmmy, yummy, yummy wings. For anyone who has an obsession with this particular part of poultry, head to the Wheat Sheaf mid-week to enjoy their famous wings special. I don't think I've had chicken wings that were so consistently tasty and oh-so-saucy! The blue cheese dressing is also a beautiful added flavour and served with celery and carrots, you really can't go wrong.
In fact, I love them so much that I have been here a dozen times and never ordered anything else. The patio, located on King and Bathurst is a great place to people watch - and during the summer months it's usually packed. Inside during sporting season, big loud TVs play a variety of games and there are also some pool tables for those who are so inclined.
The Wheat Sheaf is one of the oldest restaurants in the city, and when it comes to wings, it's also one of the best!
Listed in: Top Restaurants
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
12/5/2008
A fantastic first time experience was had here by me and my crew (yes, that's what I call them), very recently.
Apparently (according to the back of the menu, which is worth a skimming if you're into history...and food), this place is quite the Toronto institution. The longest-standing eatery in the city, I think? If not, then one of them?
Anyway, it's easy to see that it's well-loved and easy to see why. On a Tuesday night, it was full of happy, hungry people, watching sports and drinking beer, rocking out to a mind-blowing and time-travelling playlist (too many songs from middle and high school, which I don't really mean cuz I loved it). It was a bit of a different atmosphere than I'm used to, yet we felt really comfortable right away.
Our server really helped in that department, with his amazing beer-memory (he had no list, only the one in his head), and super-friendly manner. The wings are apparently a big deal, but I didn't try them. I did, however, have a beer-battered chicken (something I always long for cuz this cooking method sounds so good, but I don't like fish) sandwich called "Drunken Chicken". Incredible. Best chicken sandwich I've maybe ever had, probably.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
8/20/2008
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There is a reason that the Wheat Sheaf has stood by as the oldest standing pub in Toronto. Friendly, yet efficient service greet you at wooden tables and chairs that are surrounded by sports-filled TV screens and music so 80's you wait for Molly Ringwald to dance in with Judd Nelson. You can also walk around the pub to see if you can guess whose celebrity autographs are whose.
The food is good, honest, basic pub fare, offering some vegetarian offerings, but boasting one of the better servings of wings in the city. Don't let the cheap price of them on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday fool you. The menu is also available for take-out and the kitchen is open late.
Chances are that when you go you'll be surrounded by those either watching the game or having just played it. By far one of the most charming sports pubs in Toronto.
Listed in: The Places I Go Out
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
3/30/2009
I was only here once and though I didn't try the food I enjoyed the selection of beer and random classic rock that was being played.
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
10/11/2008
Well, being the oldest bar (still in operation of course) in Canada they've managed to get the experience down pretty well. Good beer prices, classic decor and great cheap wings--you can't go wrong patronizing this place.
