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Casual dining, dancing, live entertainment, billiards, great food!
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Down One Lounge, Toronto Reviews (1)
By Mike Robinson on
Nov 24, 2007
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This ain't no Supper Club baby. It's super casual all the way. Not to say you wouldn't see a few suits in the place, because that'll happen. Down One is home to many a corporate function around happy hour, and it's a niche market they do just fine in. Eclectic surroundings are natually toned down by the presence of bar-room style pool tables, no loonies required. The tables aren't free, but they're cheap.
It's a real experience showing up at this place at 6pm on a Thursday with the idea that you're going to be there for the long haul. When you get there it'll be home to a few individuals and most likely a party of 20 - 50 people (or more) celebrating some sort of corporate milestone with fancy martinis and top notch pub grub.
Slowly, over the course of evening, the atmosphere in this place will completely change. Some of the cubiclefolk will stick it out, but many will leave. Then "they" start coming in. University students, college kids, that younger crowd that parties their brains out, dances like an organized tornado, dresses in the latest garb, and speaks a language that seems quite distant from plain old English while guzzling pitchers of 50 and other domestic gold.
It's Jungle Night. And a jungle it is. Drum and base, dub reggae, and no cover charge.
By 11pm, the transformation is complete. Packed solid with baggy jeans, slinky skirts, this place just plain rocks. The thump of the music seems to never stop and the dance floor is packed with a gyrating mass that seems to have a sentience, a life of its own with the ability to reason, and sense. Astonishing to watch. I'd love to take part in it, but the age differential (I'm a bit older) and the moves the people are using, by themselves or upon others, well, let's just say I'm not gonna go there.
Besides, I couldn't dance like that even if a low mortgage rate depended on it.
I've been to several Thursdays, and several corporate functions at Down One. It's one of the main stops on our St. Lawrence crawl. And I do drop by with the SO from time to time to shoot a game and chug some Guinness.
Great place. Pub grub. Come as you are.
And plan to stay for a while on Thursdays. It truly is remarkable.
It's a real experience showing up at this place at 6pm on a Thursday with the idea that you're going to be there for the long haul. When you get there it'll be home to a few individuals and most likely a party of 20 - 50 people (or more) celebrating some sort of corporate milestone with fancy martinis and top notch pub grub.
Slowly, over the course of evening, the atmosphere in this place will completely change. Some of the cubiclefolk will stick it out, but many will leave. Then "they" start coming in. University students, college kids, that younger crowd that parties their brains out, dances like an organized tornado, dresses in the latest garb, and speaks a language that seems quite distant from plain old English while guzzling pitchers of 50 and other domestic gold.
It's Jungle Night. And a jungle it is. Drum and base, dub reggae, and no cover charge.
By 11pm, the transformation is complete. Packed solid with baggy jeans, slinky skirts, this place just plain rocks. The thump of the music seems to never stop and the dance floor is packed with a gyrating mass that seems to have a sentience, a life of its own with the ability to reason, and sense. Astonishing to watch. I'd love to take part in it, but the age differential (I'm a bit older) and the moves the people are using, by themselves or upon others, well, let's just say I'm not gonna go there.
Besides, I couldn't dance like that even if a low mortgage rate depended on it.
I've been to several Thursdays, and several corporate functions at Down One. It's one of the main stops on our St. Lawrence crawl. And I do drop by with the SO from time to time to shoot a game and chug some Guinness.
Great place. Pub grub. Come as you are.
And plan to stay for a while on Thursdays. It truly is remarkable.
I've been there before.. only once but I had a great time.. I seem to remember green apple martinis.
Great review!!!
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