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255 James St North. Should be open in a week or two. They used to own the Pinball Cafe in Toronto.
Tap lineup looking like:
- Naughty Neighbor
- Headstock Light Lager
- Stone Hammer Pilsner
- Camerons RPA
- Arkell Best Bitter
- St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
- Silversmith Black Lager
- Augusta Ale
- Lug Tread
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I used to sell beer. Now I don't.
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It'll be nice to have another craft beer pub on James North for Supercrawl!
But what's this about pinball? I just caught the bug again recently and would love to enjoy a pint while playing a real table again...
http://vimeo.com/60560411
The video pinball is cool, but I need some authentic plunger action!
http://vimeo.com/60804624
Tough to play while holding an ipad
But what's this about pinball? I just caught the bug again recently and would love to enjoy a pint while playing a real table again...
http://vimeo.com/60560411
The video pinball is cool, but I need some authentic plunger action!
http://vimeo.com/60804624
Tough to play while holding an ipad
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SteelbackGuy
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Stopped by with Streets and Electroluminescent hoping for a quick pint of RPA, but they were out. Grabbed a Naughty Neighbour instead which I can't complain about. They currently have a Fish Friday deal of a sizeable order of Fish & Chip and a pint for $15 - which most of us took advantage of!
Dining room in the front. A good size bar/stage area in the back - which I would like to see expanded with a few more pinball/other arcade games. We had some fun playing with their "Pin Bot" pinball machine.
They're getting off to a bit of a rocky start but I enjoyed my visit and will return again. The Fish and Chips were good (better than The Ship) but I look forward to trying the other menu items I was more intrigued by, such as the Lamb Shanks.
I would like to see some different options in the tap listing, as it doesn't offer anything you can't find elsewhere, but it gets the job done. From memory it was: St Amby Oatmeal, Welly Arkell, NB Naughty Neighbour, NB Headstock Light, Beau's Lug Tread, KBC Augusta Ale, Stonehammer Pils, Mill Street Tankhouse & Organic, and an empty tap that was RPA. No idea how much that list will rotate.
Service was pretty good as well. I wish them luck and hope to be a semi-regular.
Dining room in the front. A good size bar/stage area in the back - which I would like to see expanded with a few more pinball/other arcade games. We had some fun playing with their "Pin Bot" pinball machine.
They're getting off to a bit of a rocky start but I enjoyed my visit and will return again. The Fish and Chips were good (better than The Ship) but I look forward to trying the other menu items I was more intrigued by, such as the Lamb Shanks.
I would like to see some different options in the tap listing, as it doesn't offer anything you can't find elsewhere, but it gets the job done. From memory it was: St Amby Oatmeal, Welly Arkell, NB Naughty Neighbour, NB Headstock Light, Beau's Lug Tread, KBC Augusta Ale, Stonehammer Pils, Mill Street Tankhouse & Organic, and an empty tap that was RPA. No idea how much that list will rotate.
Service was pretty good as well. I wish them luck and hope to be a semi-regular.
A shark on whisky is mighty risky. A shark on beer is a beer engineer.
I met up with my wife after work yesterday, at The Stowaway. It wasn't busy and I had a quick chat with owner Jason. He said the RPA was the most popular tap and Cameron's is finding the same thing. He could not get more - - it's being kegged. I agree with Cale that the tap list is not adventurous, which hopefully will change over time.Cale wrote:Stopped by with Streets and Electroluminescent hoping for a quick pint of RPA, but they were out. Grabbed a Naughty Neighbour instead which I can't complain about. They currently have a Fish Friday deal of a sizeable order of Fish & Chip and a pint for $15 - which most of us took advantage of!
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I would like to see some different options in the tap listing, as it doesn't offer anything you can't find elsewhere, but it gets the job done. From memory it was: St Amby Oatmeal, Welly Arkell, NB Naughty Neighbour, NB Headstock Light, Beau's Lug Tread, KBC Augusta Ale, Stonehammer Pils, Mill Street Tankhouse & Organic, and an empty tap that was RPA. No idea how much that list will rotate.
Service was pretty good as well. I wish them luck and hope to be a semi-regular.
One great thing at Stowaway is the small and very good selection of Ontario wines. When you're with folks who aren't into beer, it's nice to have an option for them.
All in all, Stowaway is a fine new addition to Hamilton and the James N. neighbourhood.
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- shut down, which is their own fault, but at the same time the reasons surrounding the forced closure (permits, local moratorium) had zero to do with supporting legitimate growth of small businesses - which are the very lifeblood of building a great, interesting city.MatttthewGeorge wrote:They used to own the Pinball Cafe in Toronto.
Torontarded. Council can't see too well with its head up its arse.
In Beerum Veritas
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They've recently added two 60-in-1 table top arcade machines. I was really hoping they'd bring in some table top machines as they're perfect in a bar setting. Had a blast with some Xevious and 2-player Tetris.
The beer list still isn't anything crazy, but being able to sit in extremely comfortable leather chairs while playing a variety of arcade games for 25 cents a pop easily makes this one of my favourite bars in the city.
Service was exceptionally friendly. It's a real shame this place isn't doing better (we were the only customers from 5:30-7 today)
$4 pints tomorrow night - anyone in?
The beer list still isn't anything crazy, but being able to sit in extremely comfortable leather chairs while playing a variety of arcade games for 25 cents a pop easily makes this one of my favourite bars in the city.
Service was exceptionally friendly. It's a real shame this place isn't doing better (we were the only customers from 5:30-7 today)
$4 pints tomorrow night - anyone in?
A shark on whisky is mighty risky. A shark on beer is a beer engineer.