Kilgour’s Bar Meets Grill

Yes, it’s a great place to watch the Habs (if you can get a seat). It’s also just a nice bar to hang out in. It’s somewhat elevated and there’s giant glass windows, so it makes for great people watching on Bloor (if you’re into being a creeper) and the service is good. Two ciders available for those of us that can’t drink beer.

Being Toronto’s Habs bar this is my favorite bar in the city. If you are a Montréal Canadiens fan you will immediately love this places for the walls packed with habs memorabilia. On a game night the atmosphere is amazing.
The wings are cooked on a fire grill which gives them an incredible and unique flavour.
On a game night, be sure to arrive before 6:00 because seats fill up quick! Wear your jersey! GO HABS GO!

Kilgour’s is amazing they have a small but really hardworking staff that are super friendly. I see a lot of reviews about the food being mediocre, to this I say!
You have not tried the Toronto cheese steak which is a totally different take on a cheese steak, it’s like chopped strip steak in this delicious sweet and tangy sauce on a crispy flatbread with cheese Carmelized onion and chipotle mayo, and the poutine is some of my favourite around the gravy is really unique tasting, tastes as if there is some sort of dark lager beer in it has a really delicious and unique taste. I frequent this place often and always get the same thing and it is delicious every time. I can’t say enough about how much I love the food and the staff they are all so hardworking and friendly.

I wanted a place to see a Habs game during the playoffs. Heard this was the place and that it could get crowded early. Was kind dissuaded by having problems getting in so caught the first period somewhere else. They didn’t have sound and I decided between periods that it was the playoffs, this wouldn’t do, so I took a $ 15 cab to Kilgours and was happy to find that there was lots of room.
Until the barkeep told me they were «at capacity». I pleaded and said I was one guy, it was the playoffs, and begged him not to send me out into Leafs nation. There was TONS of room in this place. He mentioned something about sight lines. Come on man, it’s the playoffs and you turn away a single Montrealer who took a rush cab between periods to come to your otherwise dingy bar?
I guess the lesson here is that if you’re in Toronto and want to watch a Habs game, go home to Montréal.
Oh yeah, edit: the Habs ended up losing 5 – 1. I blame you Kilgours.

They say they don’t take reservations but they actually do, which is unprofessional. We showed up 2 hours before a game and most of the tables were already reserved:(

This is the spiritual home of Habs Nation in the middle of a hostile, foreign land.
The atmosphere is just wonderful, best place in town to watch Habs games — the staff welcomes the crowd before the puck drops, people stand for the anthems, everyone goes wild when our boys score, and (most importantly) the RDS or TVA feeds are shown, none of that Leafs-​centric HNIC nonsense!

Best nachos around!
Service is friendly and fast, beers are cold and the food is good.
It’s everything you want in your local watering hole.

The place is somewhat runned down looking & their food was just average. I had the burger with fries. But it wasn’t busy like a couple of other places we tried to get into in the area. We also liked that it was also a family friendly place. Some couples came in with their kids. They have an outdoor patio which can be accessed through the side door. The cook was a little slow & the décor needs refreshing, espcially in the washroom. But the service was friendly.

I love this place. One of those places you can remain anonymous or join in the fun if you feel like it. Great place to grab good food and a cold one. The service is fantastic!

This place is definitely a favourite for the annex crowd. The food is always quick to the table and the service — except for one past exception is great. The prices are reasonable but not dive bar cheap. If you need a place to brunch on the weekend give this place a try instead of waiting like a dunce outside insomnia for a table. For cesar fans give their horseradish containing version a go.

Have the poutine when you watch the Habs (in RDS French). that’s all you need to know.

I went on a hot Sunday afternoon. There were only men, all indoors for some reason. From what I noticed, it seemed to have a lot of regulars that keep updated on each other which was quite cute.
They have a lot of funny, interesting random crap inside, as décor, including a bunch of Elvis stuff, which made me automatically like them.
I was quite confused as the name is on Bloor street but the entrance I took was on the side street with no name, but I figured it out.
Decent place, can’t imagine it would be the most interesting place and certainly not my favourite pub in the area, but a nice empty patio.
The food was decent, the beer choices semi-​limited.

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.

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!!!

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.

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 décor 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.

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.

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 phở hung) so why not.

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.

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.