Goods & Provisions welcomes you to their restaurant. Come relax at the bar with a refreshment. They are open late from Monday to Saturday. You can get there by public transit and bicycle. They are established in an area characterized with parks, restaurants, stores and coffee shops.
While Goods and Provisions maintains a steady flow of Leslieville’s dinner crowd most nights of the week, it’s probably best to make reservations for the weekend.
“Give us a ring,” says Angus Myles, the tiny tavern’s main guy and managing bartender since 2014. Angus has been interested in cocktail culture, wines, spirits, whiskies and gins since his early 20s when he frequented and worked at bars around the world in between tours as a sound technician and tour manager for Broken Social scene and other Canadian bands.
“I like watching the bartender, even if it's the 30 seconds of cracking a beer,” he says. “There’s an acknowledgement of one person to another, not unlike walking down the street and saying hi to a stranger.”
Why open a bar in Toronto? “I just wanted to be part of the community I was living in,” he says. Choosing to settle in Toronto and spend his evenings behind the bar at Goods and Provisions has been one of the best decisions Angus ever made.
This tiny east-end tavern is known for its high caliber specialty drinks, both thirst-quenching and savoury. During cocktail hour from 5:30 to 7 pm you can order a dark ‘n’ stormy or Texas Panhandler for $8. Bonus: Steigl’s are on tap for $5 and Ontario Dolomite riesling and Italian Primitivo wines are $8.
Hip and laid-back Goods & Provisions is an eclectic restaurant serving a wide selection of drinks and a small, global menu. The funky cocktail collection includes names like Siesta, Fall of Saigon and Dark and Stormy, to name a few. A complementary menu includes French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, East Coast and Asian-inspired fare, so you won’t lack for variety or go hungry. The brick and wood decor gives the place a cozy, rustic vibe that invites you to get comfortable and stay awhile. Cocktail hour is 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
Cute, quaint and undeniably Leslieville, the east end’s best-kept secret serves small, indulgent dishes with a curiously effective Asian influence (despite its very much prohibition-era inspired décor). Come for the daily cocktail hour, between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. for half price wine from their small yet competent wine list.