The Beaver

Live the extra healthy menu options, Club is my favorite sandwich here with lots of avocado!
Always a happy smile when you sit down :) Thanks

This is a little place a few doors east of The Drake. Really great atmosphere that doesn’t feel like many Queen West places. staff are incredibly friendly and their menu is small but all really well done. Lots of vegetarian options as well as a wide range of craft beer. Had a taste of cherry cider today, creative but definitely not my thing. As a beet lover their salad is wonderful. Smaller place so it feels very intimate. Definitely check it out.

I like this place. It had a very positive vibe and is completely queer (and straight) friendly. The staff are very friendly and helpful. I enjoyed my cold brew, and my ginger cookie was decent enough.
The only downside was that there were some WIFI issues that day or something because neither my friend nor I could connect in order to complete our work.
I will definitely go again for the friendly service and welcoming atmosphere!

Great music, get service, great staff, great atmosphere. It can be tight at times, but the attitute of its patrons makes it not at all uncomfortable. If your lookong for a laid back place for easy conversation with a friend or stranger, The Beaver will do it for you.

Loved hanging out at this bar with great food, great cocktails, sweet big cookies, and a couple awesome local beers on my recent trip to Toronto. It’s a dark, low-​key dive bar that just happens to make an excellent club sandwich which is perfect on their sunny back patio with a grapefruit cocktail. The staff were fun to hang out with too, I loved cracking jokes with these ladies and the endearing way they repeatedly tried to convince me to not bother working. I wish I could have been there for one of their truly wonderful-​sounding theme karaōke nights. Top of the list when next I’m back!

I’ve had a lot of different experiences at The Beaver, and I must say they’ve all been pretty lovely.
These experiences are extremely varied. They go from wifi-​stealing sessions over cookies to dancing with drag queens hard at Karaōke to lunch with colleagues to late night pints and back again. Their food menu is small and simple, but they really take pride in how it’s assembled and it shows.
In the summer, they have a rotating boozy slushy drink… and this clearly deserves it’s own paragraph on Unilocal

This is as good as bar in Toronto can get. I am one happy customer after experiencing patient, pleasant and accommodating servers on a Friday night.
Amazeballs

Good crowd. Average priced drinks. Decently sized dance floor. The patio out back is sweet with plenty of seats and tables.
The only draw back is that there are only two bathrooms.

Great for brunch or dinner

Nice little cozy hideaway with great beer/​coffee and awesome food. Vegan friendly no less ;)

First chilly weekend of the season calls for a nice comforting brunch and The Beaver definitely delivered! A friend and I wandered in looking for some good eats and we were happy to see they were still serving brunch at 3 in the afternoon. The menu is modest but it all looks pretty tasty. I would’ve ordered the shakshuka (a baked egg in tomato ragu and goat cheese) but their oven wasn’t working so I ordered the regular breakfast instead which consisted of eggs, your choice of bacon or ham, salad and toast all for $ 10. Solid! The bacon and ham are cooked perfectly, you get 4 slices of your choice of rye or French baguette for toast, and the eggs are perfectly «steamed» and scrambled. I think she made them in a metal cup with the espresso machine? Totally cool! I’ve never seen that but it worked very well.
It wasn’t a fancy meal but it was done very well for a very reasonable price. I’d love to come back for that shakshuka though!

Extra points for serving late into the evening.
No points though for being sort of lackluster and not having food options that were delicious.
I think Evelyn W had a better time mauling a burrito than I did eating usually warm olives, but the cast of characters was enough to keep me entertained.
Evelyn promised me drag queens and there was nary a queen in sight, but on St. Pat’s day there was a wealth of funny hats and green hair, so that sort of made up for it.

Great place for a group of friends to hang out! Loved the Beaver Nachos with both cheddar and goat cheese mmmm. Bottles of beer were reasonably priced, and Netflix Pub night was TOO MUCH FUN! great atmosphere and a lot of great peeps!

Divey… friendlyish staff… Kinda boring? Drag show is laughable.

Le soir comme en journée, un endroit authentique. Toujours bon, toujours juste et sympathique.

You can have a great time at the Beaver whether it’s 10am on a weekend or 10pm any day! Great weekend brunch and everyday lunch, dinner and snacks.
I love their beet salad and sweet potato burrito!
Seating area at the back can be a little dark… has a bit of an old industrial feel to it.
They have a quiet secluded back patio, but there’s no view.
Fast and friendly service.
Has everything a café, bar, restaurant would have.

They are a café by day, bar by night. I prefer them for weekday lunch or brunch than anything else. Inside is just way too loud, dingy and tight on space at nights. The music makes it virtually impossible to carry a conversation. Their patio, on the other hand, is very quiet during the day. It has a feel of a small secluded backyard than an actual patio and has absolutely no view (like the Green Room patio).
Their lamb burger is the signature item on the menu. The pulled pork sandwich is alright but might be a tad too vinegary for some. One of my biggest pet-​peeves with The Beaver is that they’re always missing items on the menu. Whether it’s a beer or food, you’re almost guaranteed to have pick an alternative because they’re simply out of that or this. The one bright point is that they carry a watermelon meat beer (the name escapes me), which can be very refreshing on a hot summer day.

I went here late at night (11pm on a Friday night) for some drinks with friends. The bar staff are okay to deal with. However, I found the crowd to be very rude. My friend was dancing to the music and some people yelled at her for dancing. they told her she had to listen to the music and bob her head. not dance. seriously?
Maybe eating here would be better. which I’ll have to try for another time.

Stumbled into The Beaver, supremely late one night because of no cover and no line-​up and also because Roncy was absolutely dead.
Was jam packed. They have a pretty ok beer selection. All I remember is that the Wellington is a light, raspberry flavored beer.
Our bartender was craptastically bad. He shrugged in response to all three of my questions, prepared drinks very sloppily, splashing things around. I get it, you’re a starving hipster with a bad attitude. But then you shouldn’t be making a living in the service industry.
Anyways, the girl who was serving the other section had her wits about her and made up a bit for the douchiness of our bartender.
The drinks were good, the company was good, the back patio was pretty hopping as was the tiny dance floor. Would’ve rated higher had the bartender been more civil.

I really disliked what I ate here. I ordered the BLT and eggs. The BLT tasted like salty microwavable bacon sandwiched between stale toast. That was heaven in comparison with the scrambled eggs. I have never eaten wet sponge before, but I think that describes the scrambled eggs. They were absolutely flavourless, almost as if they used powdered eggs, added powdered milk, and added water, then used a machine to suck out any flavour of goodness of what could have been.
I did not finish this meal and I almost always finish my meal. I cannot remember not finishing a meal because of sheer dislike of my food in my adult life until now. I won’t be back.

Stopped into the Beaver for a little bite around lunchtime today. Was a bit sad that i missed their breakfast menu, but what can ya do?! I like to sleep in on my day off :)
The place was pretty quiet, but hey, it’s a Monday and the weather was on and off rainy, so i’m sure they aren’t getting as much walk-​by traffic as they usually would.
I just grabbed a Maple Butter Tart, while my friend got a latte, a gluten-​free brownie and a chocolate croissant. The butter tart was ok. Personally i like butter tarts that are ooey-​gooey-​er. I tried the brownie and the chocolate croissant as well. The brownie was REALLY moist and chocolatey. Really good for gluten-​free, but not my favourite brownie. But the croissant… oh the croissant! was SO good. Baked fresh every day and you can taste the freshness right there in your mouth! Soft and buttery and deeeeeeeeelish.
The décor was great and we got a spot at the front counter so we could people watch on Queen St. I’d like to come here at night to see how the place transforms with a DJ. Interesting…