This place is classy and beautiful now, but I secretly loved it when it was just a dusty old man bar with tall boys and a murky jar of pigs knuckles on the counter. Friends threw an annual Christmas / NYE party here for a couple years that was the most relaxed un-sceney place to hug in the season. Still, the belle epoque is a lovely and most welcome addition to the otherwise mall-and-Peel-Pub dominated stretches of the downtown core.