The Bier Markt (don’t mind the spelling, just pronounce it with your thickest German accent), is a Toronto chain with a simple claim to fame: 150 beers on the menu. From 30 different countries.
Dozens and dozens of these beers are on tap, there will be ever-changing seasonals, and townies will finally have access to sour ales. The menu comes with a dictionary of beer so you can properly explore the world of lagers and ales.
There are currently 5 Bier Markts in Toronto, 1 in Ottawa, and 1 on Montreal … with the 8th planned to move into the building formerly occupied by The Keg on Harbour Drive. (If you haven’t noticed, The Keg slid next door, to take over the building Legros & Motti’s left behind.)
In addition to the overwhelming drink menu, they serve food meant to complement beer, from gouda bombs and duck wings, to charcuterie and spaetzle soup.
Here’s hoping they get their shit together on the uniform policy for female workers. Sweet honourable GAWD, this crowd is in the stone age.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cara-backtracks-on-skimpy-uniform-1.3294640
gross …
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cara-backtracks-on-skimpy-uniform-1.3294640
Do we know when it will be opening?
no word, yet.
I used to go to a bar in Augusta GA that had 200 beers on the menu. And you could get a swipe card that got you a discount every time you got a beer you hadn’t already had. And a T-shirt when you’d tried them all. I never did get the t-shirt.
That t-shirt is a great idea. Getting one’s like joining a club.
If I was opening the place, I’d have some kind of numbered limited edition for the first hundred or so. And make a huge deal out of it in the advertising. Maybe win a trip on a draw between them. People go crazy for a contest. 😉
*Legros and Motti. Not Legros and Motti’s.