I tried going to the Devil’s Advocate last Friday and it was closed. It’s being renovated, and will have a new name (Duke of “Something” I can’t remember which). Doubt it’ll be open by TIFF

@joeyThe significant other has been recommending Salad King for over a year, but every time we walk by, there’s a line-up outside the door. It can only be a nightmare at TIFF-time, which coincides with the new school year (seems to attract a LOT of the Ryerson gang). We always skip it and go somewhere else. We recently tried Jack Astor’s and if the decor doesn’t make you sick with it’s trailer-trash taste, the food will.

Avoid Spring Rolls too. Wretched Asian-style food at ridiculously inflated prices. Best to check out the Thai restaurant we discovered across the street from the old Maple Leaf Gardens.

Rest assured, that such a takeover would be completely different from us nerds taking over the Drake Hotel lounge during RubyFringe’s Saturday night festivities. During that event, the snobs were us and not some scumbags whose preference and talents lie in making film rather than software. Of all the nerve!

Thanks to my documenting it in this blog, I can tell you when I was last there: March 14, 2003.

Pubs :
Duke of Richmond (20 Queen St. West) – just on the other side of the Eaton centre. It isn’t bad and has the usual Duke of X pub fare.
Library Pub and Tavern – interesting old school bar near Ryerson, just east of the Square. It gets a mix of older timers and ryerson students.
Devils Advocate – Elm and Bay; haven’t been there in a while but it wasn’t a bad spot.
I would recommend, walk two blocks south to King and yonge and go to BeerBistro. It has great food and an awesome selection of beer.

sio.