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The Cock and Tail
- 1168 Queen St. W. (at Beaconsfield Rd.) • View on map »
- 647-349-8245
- http://www.thecockandtail.ca/
Business and life partners Helen Tweddle and Trish Mutch want to make something clear: their brand new Queen Street baby is a pub, not a club. That means no cocktails, no lineups and no posing—no small feat in the Drake-ified west end. Looking to fill a niche in the area, the expats—Tweddle is British, Mutch Australian—rented and renovated the old Edaas gallery space and turned it into a welcoming neighbourhood hangout, complete with a rough-hewn wood bar, a multiplicity of local microbrews (Devil’s Pale Ale, Amsterdam Framboise, Mill Street Tankhouse Ale) on tap and in bottles, and a corner by the front window for live music. Local barflies have heard their call and answered happily, dotting the long, narrow space’s banquettes and stools well into the night.
1168 Queen St. W. (at Beaconsfield Rd.)
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