Marquee Beer Market

After reading all of the reviews that seem to have NOTHING to do with the restaurant I decided to give this place a try for my own delight. To the shock of many people, it was amazing. The staff was friendly the bar is very modern and clean and the beer was cold and bubbly. Yum. We then had some food. The nachoes to start that came super loaded with toppings, followed by the Steak entrée which was cooked perfectly and their choice of beef you could tell was a very high grade. We also had the nights special which was a grilled pork chop that was to die for. The manager came around to see how everything was and after bought us a round of beers just to be nice. Great place will for sure be going there again.
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I dunno. I’ve only been here once. It was for my stagette. So we felt waaaay older than everyone in there. We didn’t have any food. Just booze. Pretty basic bar booze… shots and beer. The music was brutal. Shitty DJ, trance music. Def not my style. It had a big dance floor etc but I’d not be rushing back.

You can take the place out of the trash, not the trash out of the place. It’s a craphole. I’d rather drink on the sidewalk than pay for overpriced food and drinks. I did. I sat on the curb off of the main road and 3 people joined for 3 bucks a beer. That’s how bad this place is. Pretentious, overpriced and soon to be out of business. Marquee has substandard everything.

A long day at work deserves a good brew, with this in mind and having Marquee on the drive home we decided to stop in for a few nibbles and sips.
We sat in the bar side and I have to say the décor looked and felt cheap. I know it was going for a gastro pub feel but it doesn’t seem that way to me. The music blaring in the background was not my scene for that evening especially considering all the rock legends portraits they have on the walls I wasn’t expecting to hear «thong song» and the like.
The beer menu is pretty good and there is a extended happy hour, but it made me wonder… why? Is it good for business or are they hurting for it? We got waited on right away, but it was the I haven’t sat down and taking off my jacket while being questioned what drink would I like… thanks for being attentive but I haven’t even looked at the menu.
We ordered a few shareables. The mussels, bruschetta and a salad. Mussels were cold upon arrival and were in a weird greasy clear broth that tasted like nothing… the fries that came with were over seasoned. Bruschetta was ok and the salad was just meh.
There was nothing that would bring me back, plus I didn’t like the location much. Putting it on the list of «been there, done that.»

went to the Marquee lastnight on the Halloween Howler and the girl in the cheeta costume serving at the bar was the most rudest girl i have ever met! we paid good money to be there and she was a cunt! totally destroyed the rest of our evening, all becuase she was talking with her friends and we asked for a drink! Never again! Marquee should have standards on service, not just hiring pretty girls with no serving or people skills

I’ve enjoyed some fun evenings at Marquee. While my 24-​year-​old self mourns greatly for The Back Alley, Marquee is a complete overhaul from the former rock club. It has been fully renovated, and now offers bottle service areas, seating in the restaurant, and a pub-​style beer market. They have a wide selection of beers and great service. I have yet to try the food, but as a place to go for drinks and dancing, it’s a good time.

This place is a disaster. Went there with my wife and a couple of friends on the weekend, looking forward to trying a new beer market (as they advertise). We made a reservation for about 7:30 (which was completely unnecessary as it wasn’t really busy at all) and were shown to our table which is a picnic table. At this point, I should probably mention that this place used to be the Back Alley nightclub which we used to go to from time to time and were quite interested in seeing how they changed it around inside. Basically they painted, made a few minor changes to some walls, but everything else is exactly the same. They put up a moveable partition between the dance floor/​nightclub side and the «restaurant». A little less than blown away so far, we go to order our drinks. I love beer and am really looking forward to trying some new craft beers… unfortunately they don’t really have anything new or different that I couldn’t get at most other pubs in the city. I settle for ordering my standby Creemore Springs from our waitress (who informs us that it’s happy hour and I can get a «glass» of beer for $ 5…ridiculously pricey as I will explain). I don’t want a glass of beer, and am told I can order a quart if I want, which of course I do. She returns a little while later with our drinks and I shit you not, comes in a glass milk jug accompanied by a mason jar that I’m supposed to pour it into and drink from. Are you kidding me? What kind of a «beer market» doesn’t serve its beer in a proper beer glass?! I’m now laughing at this point, but it gets even better. We all order our food (2 crab mac&cheese, 1 risotto and one chicken dinner) and just try to make the best of it. Neither of us can finish the mac&cheese as it’s really bland and not very good, the risotto was okay and the chicken was actually pretty good. The waitress notices the unfinished meals and makes a comment in a tone like we aren’t the first people to only finish half of it, but we decide to not worry about it and just finish up and go. Now at this point, it’s getting close to 9:00 and the music has started on the other side (top 40 dance music, not my cup of tea and definitely not the type of music they used to play, but c’est la vie). People are starting to show up for the night club, which is fine, but I really wasn’t expecting what happened next. The bouncers come over and remove the partition so the restaurant has officially become part of the night club. I’m not kidding, it’s pretty much the Back Alley again only with music I don’t care for and about 200 eleventeen year olds (mostly girls in tiny little black dresses and 4 inch heels which only a few know how to walk in). Seriously… there is nothing about this place that should be referred to as a beer market. It’s a confused night club that wants to try and get some revenue during the day with false advertising, in my opinion. It’s expensive, the food was very average, they have lots of ordinary beer on tap an d they can’t wait until they can close the kitchen and start slinging vodka slices to the kids. Brutal.

Despite bad reviews, I wanted to check this place out so I planned a night there with friends. My boyfriend and I were the first to arrive at 6:30. We asked for a table for 6 and we were sat. Then our server came and said, «Just so you know we have a reservation for 20 at 8pm so you will have to leave». We asked if could maybe sit at a different table so we didn’t have to leave and she sat us one table over. Problem solved, don’t know why this wasn’t done in the first place. We ordered our drinks, me a double vodka diet with a splash of lime and my boyfriend a pint of some Guiness type beer (they don’t carry Guiness on tap). The server returned with the wrong beer (no biggy, she brought the right one asap) and brought me a vodka with flat dirty water as the syrup had clearly run out and there was no actual pop in my drink. I mentioned this to the server and she disagreed with me and said the bartender probably just added more lime juice than pop which was why it was basically clear. I just said ok as I didn’t want to be a bitch and drank it. My friends showed up and got their drinks, all was well. When I mentioned my drink, my sister who was there said,“Thats vodka diet? I thought you were drinking a vodka Red Bull, wow.” My next drink was made properly and the server said, «So it turns out the syrup ran out on the gun in your last drink.» I told her I knew. We all ordered food. The wings were good, Maple garlic was great! I got a caesar salad with chicken which I had 2 bites of because it was so bad and I’m not usually one to not eat my meal. In fact I don’t think I have ever not eaten a meal at a restaurant before. My sister actually told the server how bad the meal was and she didn’t even respond and walked away. My sister is a server and I served for years and although our server was nice, she didn’t care about any of the issues. By the way, it took her a really long time to remember to come by and take our food order.
Anyways, we ended up leaving to go elsewhere because the music was so bad and there was not a cent taken off our bill for the bad drink or the food.
Now, regarding the music. The walls are covered in amazing photos of really great rock stars like the Rolling Stones, but the music wasn’t rock. Sure a lot of places play pop music because thats what most people like I guess, but even the pop music wasn’t top 40, it was just terrible random pop music. Soooo bad!
I don’t usually fully believe what I read in reviews as some people are just quick to give bad ones, but this place deserves every bad review it gets. Oh yeah, when i asked the bartender if there was Guiness on tap when we first got there she said, «No, but there is Strongbow.» Yeah, that makes sense.

We decided to stop in for a beer after taking in a theatre performance on a whim. As soon as we sat down a waitress came at us with ‘just so you know we’re not serving food anymore’. It was 9:20 on a Wednesday night so I’m not sure what the deal was. It was pretty slow so maybe someone was trying to get home early? Anyway our second waitress let us know we were special and that they would serve us food if we wanted it. OK.
I ordered some lemon pepper wings and they were really good. Not just the dry lemon pepper seasoning but actual pepper with a squirt of lemon juice. We also had beer but we were a bit confused when we were told they came in 14 oz and 20 oz glasses. Our waitress said the 20 oz was ‘like a pint’…yeah a British pint! So when we got our beer I got the standard glass of an American pint which of course is 16 oz. I know this because my husband had his in a half pint Ball jar which is 8 oz. Coincidentally it may look cool to serve beer in a jar but it is for sure the wrong shape for it. Keep the jars for your cocktails.
So the wings were good, the beer delicious (but short)…
What made me want to leave is watching the barkeep eat half a sandwich, pick his teeth with his finger then proceed to empty the clean dishwasher. Ew.

Wow so disappointed. Came for dinner extra hungry with this being the first meal of the day ready to do some damage… Left not finishing my meal it was that bad. So sad
Wings were dry and skinny, possibly cooked earlier during the day?
Spaghetti and meatballs, drowned in tomato sauce, with meatballs tasting like rubber.
I’m giving this 2 stars bc the beer selection is decent, and the beer was cold.

I don’t know what this club is like inside, my only experience was one staff member at the front door.
I was the designated driver at my friend’s birthday party on Saturday. Hadn’t had a drink. I was in the middle of the group entering the club. Stood around outside for a few minutes, then we got past the look-​in-​the-​camera-​guy without issue. I walked into the hallway for the pat-​down guy. He doesn’t give me any instructions, doesn’t say a word to me, just starts groping. I put my arms up to the sides, and he kind of stuck his fingers into my front pants pockets, and (as in the airport) I volunteered ‘I can empty my pockets for you.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
Seriously?‘
Then he shoves me backwards, curses some more, and shoves me again into another bouncer.
I’m 30 years old, calm, decently dressed, sober. Pretty fun time.

Really not impressed with Marquee Beer Market which sucks because its on my way home from work and I was excited for the concept. Stopped in the first week they opened, first the waitress tried to seat us in the way back which is as dark as a dungeon, we asked to sit near the window because the place was dead and no one was sitting there. She had to ‘check’ with the head Hostess which took a few minutes and finally she sat us.
Drinks were delivered quickly but everytime she brought us a new one she asked if we wanted to eat, each time we told her we were only there for drinks, fairly pushy.
Finally at the end we get the cheque, and the drinks are full priced. We were there from 5:00PM — 6:00PM and were confused because their sign read they had Happy Hour from 4 – 8 and their menu had special Happy Hour prices. We bring this up with her and she runs to ask a Manager (it should be noted that she had to keep running back and forth to a ‘Manager’ who was no-​where to be seen, he/​she never came out to talk with us). The waitress told us the Happy Hour promotion doesn’t start until their second week (which is insane, btw. I’m in the Food & Beverage industry and opening week is the BEST time to have your best deals). So the resolution was basically, «fuck you guys». Well we didn’t like that and reiterated that the sign states their Happy Hour is on now. She goes back to the Manager and comes back offering us a 15% discount which is 10% less than the intended Happy Hour discount. We didn’t feel like playing this game anymore and so settled up with the 15% discount. Bad customer service, no manager and completely disorganized.
I’ll find somewhere else to spend my money after work.