Brant House

Brant house is a laid back place that treats it’s customers well. They have $ 7.00 beers and a great DJ every night on the weekend. I great place to have fun!

I love coming to this place because it’s usually not as crowded as it should be on a Friday night, so there is lots of space for dancing and drinks. The drink standards and music is not that great, they could do more with the dance floor.
In terms of food, I found it below average. The menu itself is so limited not a huge variety. I had fried calamari, poutine and salad. Again average menu with mediocre food. Nothing exceptional or extraordinary. A typical supper club. I would come back for drinks but not for the food.

I had a great girls night out at Brant House but that was because of my company. We were able to get in quickly but there was a $ 10 cover which I thought was a bit expensive. especially since this «lounge» isn’t that upscale. In addition to the cover we were charged $ 2/​person for coat check which was surprising. I’ve been to much nicer lounges/​bars in Chicago where there was no cover AND free coat check. I wouldn’t have minded paying if the establishment was posher. The music wasn’t that great and I noticed that they seem to love Drake. but maybe that’s because we were in Canada! The DJ definitely needs to work on his transitions between songs because they weren’t smooth; he would jump from one genre to another with pauses in between. Also in the beginning of my night, Brant House was super crowded that you could barely move or dance but it improved as the night went on. Overall I had a great time with my friends even though I just complained a lot, but that’s because we make the best out of any situation!

I like this place because for the most part the crowd is mature. The music is alright, a mix, I just enjoy the atmosphere. People are happy go lucky (for the most parT) not pretentious. I generally have a great time here, when i go. Music could use a little work Ie: house and trance nights, something more modern… dj’s sets, opposed to happy repetitive pop… yikes.

Anything could happen at the night club.
But I personally love the Brant house.
Not too fancy not too casual .its perfect place to have a fun with my
close friends.
Even you don’t have a booth, you can still sit at bar chair which located close to entrance. Some bartenders are very rude and looked stressed who only cares about tips some bartenders are friendly and nice.
Overall, more than ok for me .
We just need to enjoy without consciousness :-)

Never went here for food so can’t comment on that.
We go here every so often and usually have a decent time. The crowds a bit older; it looks like people are coming from work rather than from school. Drinks are the usual club prices. $ 10 cover is nice, and on Saturdays the place actually gets packed (Fridays are hit or miss).
Atmosphere looks like a restaurant with the middle turned into a dance floor. The layout’s actually pretty good. They’ve got a couple projection screens that play the music videos.
Music is usually top-​40 with some mashups mixed in, towards the end of the night they start to play some classics, but it’s nothing too special.
Dress code: for guys you need a collared shirt to get in and no running shoes. They’re pretty strick about it (at least they have been to us, even though the bouncer recognizes us). For girls i dont think it really matters as long as you’re not in sweatpants. If you’re a large group of guys or are rowdy, they’ll make up excuses/​reasons when you get to the front of the line to not let you in.
Coatcheck line is always long for some reason, especially at the end, but it moves decently quick. The bouncers don’t do anything about people budding in line so don’t bother complaining about it.

Awful. Went there on guest list for my friends 30^th birthday. Basically a pub, they then drag away tables at 10:30 or so and attempt to make it a classy dance floor.
Music was awful and the when asked if the dj had a popular top 40 artist said we don’t have that here. And then plays it about 20 minutes later. Weird
Also we got there before 10:30 on the guestlist but don’t let that fool you. Guestlist dosent mean
Anything, still have to pay $ 10 even though we came super early and were told it was free cover.
Beers were $ 6 and weak mixed drinks were $ 8.
Won’t ever be coming back.
Save your money and time!

Went there this past weekend for a friends Birthday. I didn’t have to stand in line so I am not sure what there wait time is like. The bouncer and the door man were relatively pleasant. Coat check line a bit too long (may be because it was 11:30). But, I stood there in line for about 10 – 15 minutes. Bar service was pretty good, no waiting around to get a drink. At a given time they 4 – 5 bartenders. There is a back patio for smokers with a bar and plenty of heaters and washroom are cleaner than most clubs.
If going to clubs is your thing, I suggest it worht a visit to say the least. I had to take away a star for music, other wise this I would give Brant 3 starts.

I organized my work Christmas party this year and decided on Brant House. We had 50people attend around the ages of 30 to 45.
Our party went extremely well. I’m still hearing how everyone loved the food! It truly went way beyond my expectations. The chili chocolate cake was delicious. The Waiters were very polite and attentive. The atmosphere and decorations were great although the music was loud during dinner and was hard to talk to colleagues. It was impossible to make any announcements.
The music was great after dinner. The variety was awesome and dancing until 2 am was easy and fun.
The only down fall was one of the security guys was very rude to me for no apparent reason. He was telling me to tip the coat check girl when it was really none of his business and I had already done so anyway. It put a damper on the night. One of my other colleagues had also mentioned to me that security was not treating people with respect. It was sad to hear for such an upscale place because other then that our night was perfect.
I will definitely think of Brant House for our party next year.

We just went for my sister’s 30^th birthday. We had a great time. We had dinner and participated in the fixed menu. Yes, it was a bit pricey but the food was very good with great service. The dessert could have been better but by the time it came, we were pretty stuffed. We took the 9:00 dinner seating which allowed us to stay for the club scene.
It was crowded but luckily enough, our table wasn’t taken away so we always had a seat and somewhere to set our drink. The music was good, drinks were strong, crowd was fun.
I do recommend Brant House.

Bouncers at Brant House have no respect for women! Bouncers are aggressive ignorant thugs! Slipped heels off after a long day at work and was actually pushed — not escorted –out of the venue by bouncers. No concern was given to belongings at table and no opportunity was granted to retrieve aforementioned possessions. Thrown outside — blazing red arms from physical force as evidence — unable to return for property.
TPS completely useless, as usual. Must, and will, go over TPS’s head for vindication.
The long and short of this post… women, if you respect yourselves, avoid this place… men, if you respect your women, stay away!
Will keep you posted!

Brant House, you’ve had your last shot. I’ve been twice in the last couple of months, after a 5 year hiatus, and was LESS than impressed. Actually, you could say that I left pissed, with a very sour taste in my mouth.
First, not unlike every other club, you start out by paying $ 10 cover. Then, $ 2 coat check (now that it’s getting too cool to leave your coat behind.) So at this point, we’re $ 12 in the hole, and the night hasn’t even started.
The bouncers tend to be a bit stuck up, and generally rude. The bartenders are okay.
The DJ is a damn train wreck. I appreciate that he’s trying to be creative, but he’s too self absorbed to realize that his mixes are terrible, and it’s at the expense of every single person having a good time. How are you supposed to enjoy dancing when they guy starts out with a really cool beat, and then effs it up by mixing in some garbage song? Don’t mess with a good thing buddy. Notice those artists are millionaires, and you’re not??? Ya, that’s because they know the difference between something that sounds GOOD and something that sounds AWFUL. Don’t quit your day job pal. And if you’re the owner/​manager/​person of influence at Brant House — take note, you need to start looking for a new DJ stat. I wouldn’t be so disgusted had it been a one off, but it wasn’t. It was two separate occasions that he screwed with my enjoyment.
So, end of the night comes, I’ve been wearing high heels for 14 hours… feet are killing. Like beyond killing and I want to go home… but guess what? No one’s allowed out the front door (right near where I parked my car, knowing that when I had to go, I’d want it close.) I wasn’t drinking, and I wasn’t being unreasonable, and asked the bouncer really, really nicely if I could please use that exit. No. Oh, and he laughed in my face, taking enjoyment in the fact that I was desperate to leave. Everyone has to go out the back door which leads you to a different street altogether, meaning that I had a lengthy hike to get back to my car… and almost in tears I might add. I was pissed. Beyond pissed. Brant House has gone waaaaaaaaay down hill since my youngen days, and I don’t recommend it.

They’ve renovated in the last year or so. It seems a little too impersonal now. Like it is a business, not a place to have a good time. They didn’t open the dance floor until 11:30pm and the DJ kept changing the songs and tempo so fast that you could not enjoy dancing to it. They crammed the place like sardines on Friday.
This place has passed it’s prime.

Came on the recommendation of a bar tender at the Spice House across the way. The DJ was sporadic his selection of music and refused to take any requests. Lots and lots of people, clean bathrooms, crowded, but lots of cabs waiting outside at the end of the night. Not my favorite place, but it wasn’t terrible either… It was probably a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ mix of girls/​guys (maybe a tad more number of guys), and I was surprised at the number of middle-​aged ladies there just to have a fun girls night. They weren’t trying to be cougars or anything, just wanted to have a good time on their own.

Like this place on Thursday… and Thursday only.
Compare to last year patrons are getting progressively worse.

Went just for the clubbing portion of the night on a Saturday. The music was good, but the scene was strange. 85% women, and almost all 40+ in age. I liked that it never got too cramped to where you couldn’t move around, but mostly I wasn’t impressed.

Recommend to go on Thursday, free entry before 930−10pm depending how busy it gets and domestic beers are only $ 3. At one point banana JD shots, rum and vodka cocktails were $ 3 as well but it became too popular.
Thursday are completely more relaxed then the weekend snubbyness, easy to get in, cheap coat check, and lots of seating. You can arrive somewhat early and stick around till 11pm where it starts to get livelier.

Everyone here is trying a bit too hard. It’s a very sad, stereotypical night club experience.
As you can imagine, they play top 40 cheese to the extreme.
It can also be hard to gain entry when they get busy (for men).
There are probably 20 better dance venues on any given night in Toronto. There is a very diverse music scene in this city, and you’re not getting it here.
I implore you: Find something better!

Went here on a Thursday night with a large group of out-​of-​town guests after having dinner at Spice Route. Got there relatively early (10 pm) and was surprised at having to pay cover when people were still having dinner. Three of my friends got in and joined me at the bar, when my fourth friend got in and said that the others were having trouble at the door.
We went back outside to be told by management that there was a special «Family and Friends» dinner taking place, and that they couldn’t allow us in at this point. Having been inside, it certainly didn’t LOOK like a family and friends event, but a convenient lie to keep a group of guys out of the establishment. Moreover, we were told, a couple of the guys were dressed inappropriately (however, they were NOT given the option of going home to change, which we would’ve easily taken).
In any case, after making me wait while he chatted about a fight that took place last weekend and subsequent unfavorable review online (which he actually took as a good thing), the manager did reimburse us for the $ 30 cover we had just paid and we were off. At the time, we were quite disappointed, but if it were not for that rejection we wouldn’t have ended up at Pravda where I ran into an old friend of mine DJ’ing and had an incredible time. Oh, we also dropped $ 600 on bottle service which Brant House missed out on.

I feel weird giving this place three stars because two hours prior to hopping into a cab in my open-​toed leather heels in –15 degree weather (hey, don’t judge — it was my first time as a Vancouverite partying in Toronto), I scanned Unilocal and all I found were 1 – 2 star reviews.
Anyhoo — I never went for dinner, I was merely put on the G-​list and got in without braving the cold for too long unlike all the other people in line, in their closed-​toed pumps, mini skirts and skimpy tops.
I got there around 1030PM, so people were still sitting at the tables, eating dessert. Everyone else was just standing around awkwardly, looking around at everyone else standing around awkwardly and looking back at everyone else. *sigh* Yeah, welcome to fast-​paced, exciting world of nightlife.
It stayed like this for another hour or so until the VIP section began filling up (which btw, I think one of the bartenders said it was 240 $ for a bottle and you had to get two bottles in order to sit on your own little section like all the other cool people who pay more than $ 500 just to sit in a little booth and stare away at their phones all night, texting) — and within 30 minutes it seemed to fill up fast.
So if you’re reading this, I think you’re probably trying to figure out one of two things…
1) What kind of crowd can I expect to see here?
— Pairs or groups of 3 middle-​aged average-​looking guys standing around near a post, watching whatever sports game is playing on the telly
— Not more than one pair or group of 3 cougars at any given point in time — easy to spot not by the crows feet or saggy, wrinkly décolletage but by the lack of ability to dress age-​appropriately (note: cropped leather vest revealing saggy pierced navel is not HOT but rather REVOLTING)
— Pairs of 50-​something aged, balding men with beer guts creepily attempting to stand within arms reach of the only group of just-​barely-​legal girls dancing
— Chubby trailer trash in red lace shirts, complete with muffin tops jiggling out, arms flailing with the only thing going for them being their long blonde hair making them look semi-​appealing from behind
2) What kind of music do they play?
— Stuff you used to «rock» to when you were in Grade 5 to Grade 9
— Stuff your parents used to rock to a few years prior to your conception
— The occasional song you’d hear on 93.5 but only lasts for a verse and chorus and then gets mixed into one of the above options
So you may be wondering if I had a good time… I’d say yes, it was okay.
At around midnight, it doesn’t matter how much you pay to get into the VIP section to sit around and make sweet sweet thumb-​love to your iPhone or Blackberry, everyone ends up pouring into that section, the entire place gets pretty jam packed and around 2AM it’s time to brave the long-​as-​hell coat check line again.
And at 4AM, it’s finally time for the stupid taxis to start picking up half-​frozen people up off the streets and take them back to their homes rather than driving by with no one in the cars, no lights on and only selectively picking up those who live in buttf&^k Ontario.