Local Public Eatery

When I used to work in Liberty Village, many many years ago, there was nothing there.  No condos, no town homes, few restaurants, and a Metro.  Now it’s totally different neighborhood.  Along with the Metro, there’s furniture stores, a LCBO, gym, coffee shops, and restaurants.  We chose to try Local Public Eatery because of the name.  We assume it would focus and feature on local foods. 

There were a few people waiting for a seat ahead of us.  The restaurant itself was packed.  What I didn’t expect was this to be a bar essentially, and for a bar to be so full so early on a weekend, it was around 12ish on a Saturday, food must be great right?  This meal however started out not so great though.  There was no one to seat us, or to even ask for our name and the number of people in our party.  I’m pretty sure we had to wait like 10 minutes for the hostess to finally come by, but it felt like forever.  We got a seat soon after, at the bar.  When they asked what we wanted to drink and we said water, we got a look that was like, why are you sitting at the bar?  While I was deciding what to order, I scanned the room to see what other people were eating, mostly burgers.  I wasn’t feeling like a burger, so ended up ordering a west coast chopped salad with chicken while the hubby ordered a burger.  My salad arrived and I wondered, wheres the rest of it?  The portion was pretty small.  The description said that there’s supposed to be beets, I couldn’t find any, and was about to ask our server when I finally found ONE tiny cube of a beet.  At least the greens were fresh.

West Coast Salad

The hubby’s burger was much better.  Quite juicy.  The downside of juicy means soggy bun.  They make their own burger buns it seemed, but the bun was too light to hold up to the juices and the toppings.  It was a mess to eat.  I have friends that prefer this super soft burger bun, but I hate it.

Burger

Take a pass on Local Public Eatery, unless you’re there to drink.  They do have a huge selection of beers and daily drink specials that they list on their train station flip board.  The board itself is pretty cool.

Local Public Eatery

171 East Liberty St., Unit 100

Toronto, ON

M6K 3P6

Phone:  (416) 901-8351

Hours:  Monday - Wednesday 11:00am - 1:00am

             Thursday - Friday 11:00am - 2:00am

             Saturday 10:00am - 2:00am

             Sunday 10:00am - 1:00am

http://locallibertyvillage.com