Crown and Tiger

Their $ 10 pitchers are reasonable. Good atmosphere, Awsome place to chill with friends, good music and a good distance from my place.

The only good thing about crown & tiger is they have cheap drinks. I’ve been here quite a bit over the years & the only reason to come is the low prices.
This place is just a true dive bar. Service is all over the map, I’ve never dared to try the food, drinks are basic, grimy & cheap. Rumour is they sell smokes too. Never seen or bought any but that’s what I hear. This place can be packed or dead at random times. Good place to pre at because the drinks are so cheap but not really a destination kind of place.
Enjoy it for what it is. Get drunk, have a good time.

Crown and Tiger reminds me of the bar in How I met your mother. It has a neighborhood-​y type feel and is nestled in a partially residential area at college and Bathurst. Drinks are really quite reasonably priced. You can get pitchers for as little as $ 10 and 4 shots for $ 14. They also sell buckets of bottled beer for $ 14 (I think) for 4 bottles.
It has big roomy booths, music that is loud, but not annoyingly so — you can still easily hold a conversation.
After 10pm there is a security guard but before that, pretty much anyone can walk in.
I don’t know what people are expecting when they go to a bar. It isn’t high class but it’s a great little neighborhood hangout spot with some decent food (or so my friends say — no gfree options for me to try) and great priced drinks!

Do you think you’re better than Crown and Tiger? Pfft. Whatever.
Last Friday myself and two of my favourites trolled Kensington for something cheap. Proper cheap. Days of years-​gone-​by Kensington cheap but nothing peaked our interest, or proved to *actually* be reasonably priced. So we hit College and started towards Bathurst. We briefly considered Toby’s or the Beast, but couldn’t bring ourselves to do either. For whatever reason this place seemed better? It’s not really, but our logic at the time was already blurry (thanks Last Temptation).
We didn’t eat, we just drank. Boy did we drink. Drank like we used to when we were the median age of the clientele in this joint. $ 14 for four shots means we ordered a lot of shots. Gross ones. Cheap pitchers of beer. Etc. It was really just a giant shame spiral among some buds that should never be spoken of again.
The place is clean enough and the bathrooms aren’t in the basement, but if you have your undergraduate degree you’re probably too old to spend more than the odd drunk evening in this joint.
PEPPER’S PISSED because I’m friggin’ ancient. I might still be hungover from last Friday. My old bones!

the absolute worst night of my life and the absolute best night of my life both happened to include some dabbling in this bar. This bar rocks. So cheap. Cheap bars are hard to find in Toronto, or so it seems. But Crown and Tiger is great. Lots of big couches and places for big groups to hang out. Not a couple-​type bar at all, more for big groups of friends looking to drink. Suggested to everyone and anyone. If you’re afraid of mildly-​sketchy people then I’d suggest not going, I’m not saying you’ll get bothered by anyone, but I’ve got a few friends who can’t handle the weirdos walking around and hanging outside the bathroom

Honestly it seems like a lot of Torontonians have WAY too high of expectations when it comes to places to drink. Crown and Tiger is the go to spot for all my friends and I. It has cheap beer ($ 10 pitchers are ALWAYS a good way to go). Before 11pm, the place is an awesome, low key pub that you can hang with your friends, knock a few back and just shoot the shit. The food is even pretty good (They’re chicken wings have always been really good)
So yeah, please don’t let the bad reviews deter you. If you’re looking for a simple, low key place to spend an evening with your buddies, this is the place to do it

It’s like Nirvana, but worse. Cheap shots, and pitchers, young crowd. Tacky wooden seating but large seating area and very good for groups. It’s very much a place you can reliable go to regularly with your friends. This bar is excellent if you want to get very wasted. The music is controlled in an amateur fashion akin to a house party. The service is okay. The best part though is BarNet which continously airs on their TVs. If you thought watching people pull stupid stunts at home and get hurt in the process was funny when you are sober, you’ll get an even better kick out of it when you’re drunk. Absolutely hilarious. You can spend hours in this bar without wanting to leave. Old favourite. Beware, the washrooms are disgusting. I’ve used the washrooms in Toronto’s public parks, and they are much cleaner than the ones at Crown & Tiger.

4 shots $ 14!
4 beers for $ 14!
This is a hidden gem/​hole in the wall bar. I love it though it is a mix of different styles under one roof.

Went here 2x on a Comedy night in the basement. I ordered wings and nachos and they tasted amazing. They put soo much cheese on the nachos! they put so much of everything on the nachos actually. Everything is reasonably priced and they have cheap pitcher specials! I ordered the wings on a different night and they were so delicious and plentiful. The comedy brawl had quite a few starlets! Everything was perfect until i discovered that it was actually a dank. The washrooms are soo gross and the basement was gross too. The food was good and the people were nice so I’ll go back! I’ll just go to the can BEFORE i get there. The washroom looks and smells like an untreated infection. four stars!!!

I end up here on a lot of Friday nights whether I want to or not. It’s not a bad place. I’m always early as usual so for the first hour or so it’s pretty calm and I’m able to have a pint in relative peace. By midnight it’s gone wild and I’m able to enjoy $ 10 pitchers in a loud, packed, obnoxious circus. It’s also a good place if you enjoy morning-​after tequila headaches as they have 4 shots for $ 12.
The servers are fine. They do a good job of checking to see if you need more cheap booze. If you don’t feel like dealing with servers the people behind the bar are pretty quick to serve you as well. Apparently there is food. My memories of that are kind of hazy but I know I’ve sampled nachos a couple times. They are just run of the mill nachos. Ok if they are already at the table but with reasonable pizza and shawarma around I don’t really see the need.
The washrooms are disgusting so if you’re a heavy pee-​er be prepared for that and maybe bring some hand sanitizer. A roll of paper towel in the purse never hurts either as they have some kind of gross hand drying device with a real cloth hanging on it that I’ve never figured out. Finally, there is usually a no-​cover dance party downstairs. It can get pretty packed but rubbing up against strangers can be fun sometimes after the second or third pitcher.
Accept this place for what it is. Total dive bar. Then check it out. Good times to be had.

Cheap pitchers, cheap shots, and half decent nachos.
Nicely tucked away patio in the back worth mentioning too.
There are a lot of better places in the area for food or atmosphere, but if you want to get drunk on the cheap, this is a pretty good choice.

just a hole…
I lost respect for myself the second I enter this bar. They really need to change their staff and add more to their drink selection.
There are many many many other bars and pubs within walking distance … Just Unilocal and you’ll see what i mean.
Smiles Fade in here
There are better bars in town
Just Unilocal somewhere else

The cook here apparently doesn’t know her own menu — my $ 6 caesar salad arrived without bacon bits. The waiter literally had to argue with her to get me my bacon. When it arrived, it was chicken or turkey bacon, and strips that I had to cut up myself.
Later, a friend ordered the same salad and was told bacon was $ 1 extra.
The service as well is fairly slow, and the waiter shortchanged two of my friends, saying «I don’t have a dollar on me right now» and expecting the friend to say «oh that’s ok, just keep it as change».
This is just not acceptable.
After a look at their washrooms, I am seriously wondering how this place is still open.

Went to the Tiger bar downstairs for a concert and even though there were no more then 20 ppl downstairs It was alot of fun. Really small and kinda dark but I loved it. The unisex bathroom behind the stage with no door is a bit shifty since you cannot open the bathroom door without walking next to someone at the urnial… but little did I know at the time there were other bathrooms upstairs just reaaally packed. With beer as cheap as it was, you were better off taking a blind eye to the dude at the urnial.
Booze was cheap, cover was 5 bucks, def worth checking out.

It was half past midnight on Friday night. I was catching some nocturnal rays from the glow of my laptop screen. Unilocaling. That’s when my stomach started talking, and it wasn’t to chat. It was saying, listen up bub, and not in a friendly way. I’d forgotten to eat. Again.
Out of instinct, I reached for the nearest iPhone-​shaped object. Turned out to be an iPhone. Lucky. I punched the Unilocal burst and did a search for what was open. Slim pickins. I did the same search on my laptop (it was right in front of me after all) and turned up the same. Nada. Nil. Nothing.
Then, that closeby iPhone-​shaped object started to buzz. It was my pal Dick. He was at the Crown and Tiger. Boozin’. I looked blankly into the night for a long, long time then started to punch out a text: «Is their kitchen still open?» I slammed the laptop shut before waiting for the answer, and walked out the door.
So yeah, I’m that guy who cabbed over to Crown and Tiger well past midnight, elbowed my way through intoxicated college kids (and on that particular night, soused lawyers) and «enjoyed» a club sandwich that might as well have been pulled out of a sock. The pile of fries next to it only added insult to injury. Serves me right for being a grown man (technically) and not having sufficient dietary planning skills.
That said, the drinks are not costly in this dive and I had a reasonably good time here.
Obligatory Title Pun: This TONY is anything but.
Menu Readability: I actually phoned in my order. I’m a douche, I know.
Need to mention: Patio.
What this place teaches me about myself: Skipping a meal is forgivable — but all three? That’s just weird.

Nice little college bar. I discovered while at a friends b-​day celebration.
I ordered the Coney Fries & Onion Rings
The Coney fries were basically their house fries topped with beef, beans, & cheese. Think Chili fries minus the chili sauce. The fries were thin cut with stringy cheese to top it. I found it strange that there was no actual Chilli on the fries as last time I went there was.
The Onion Rings were delicious and fried to a golden brown not overtly oily. Optimal onion rings.
I was considering getting poutine, but I forwent that & got a basket of house fries. Coney Fries that time were mildly disappointing & I HAD to have the house fries to redeem my love for Crown & Tiger. Fries were fried to perfection & evenly seasoned.
I saw «$ 12 for 4 shots of tequila/​Jäger» scribbled on a chalkboard on the wall. An optimal value for the drunkard or someone wanting to get wasted on the cheap.
$ 20 including tip an alright price for three different items.
I will return eventually.

This place is all about the service. Not too big, yet not too small, there are multiple servers, and they don’t really seem to have their own «zones» in the bar & patio. They all cared about how our drinks were doing and were all friendly and talkative.
The patio is right on the sidewalk and has a few nice trees just in front of it. The prices were just right too, I forget what exactly I paid, but I remember thinking how cheap it was for 2 pints and 2 cesars.
Why only 3 stars? Another average looking pub. The inside is nothing to look at it. It seems old and dilapidated, the patio is nothing to write home about, but that’s not what you focus on when you come here.

Came to Crown & Tiger with boyfriend after a short dinner with friends at La Palette. He had told me he wasn’t that hungry so we got the duck confit (single leg) to share. He also wasn’t feeling very well, so I thought that that would be enough for us. Keeping in mind I had had a family dinner prior and was really just there to see some old friends, and that I just ate the accompanying veggies.
Well… it turns out that I underestimated boyfriend’s appetite, and so we went over to the Crown & Tiger (as he had previously been here before and really enjoyed the Coney fries). Boyfriend tends to like the pubs. I have been to Fossil & Haggis in Scarborough 3 times in one week since we met. I think I’m turning into a pub whore now. Oi!
We ordered the Coney Fries AND Onion Rings… I think boyfriend is trying to fatten me up to weed out the competition? And just the day before when we were at Fossil & Haggis he had sworn off late night, greasy pub fare. Apparently tonight was an exception because the ungratifying portions of French food at La Palette left more to be desired.
The Coney fries were basically their house fries topped with beef, beans, and cheese. Think Chili fries minus the chili sauce. The fries were thin cut (my preference), and the cheese was stringy. However, the chef must’ve been falling asleep (seeing as it was 12:30AM, this is quite possible), and some parts of the fries were overly salted. Yikes!
The Onion Rings were delicious and fried to a golden brown.
During dinner at La Palette the topic of poutine came up. Boyfriend had kidded while we were chowing down the Onion Rings and Coney Fries that he might order Poutine. Alas, he did not end up ordering la Poutine, but he did go ahead and order another basket of house fries. He said the Coney Fries were disappointing and he just HAD to have the house fries to redeem his love for Crown & Tiger. And so redemption was found in the house fries. This time, the chef probably woke up, as there were no randomly, heavily salted fries.
We didn’t have any drinks as I was driving and Boyfriend isn’t much of a drinker. But I did see «$ 12 for 4 shots of tequila/​Jäger» scribbled on a chalkboard on the wall. This place could bring the phrase «cheap drunk» from a cliché to reality. 1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, FLOOR!
The damage at the end of the day was $ 20 including tip. Not bad considering we ordered 3 different items.

Don’t eat here… but use that money and buy some of their cheap drinks!
This is one of my favourite places to stop off for a cheap pint /​pitcher or round of Jäger Shots… but you probably aren’t going to want to stay.
It’s pretty sketchy and the bathroom are half-​functional, sometimes with a layer of water on the floor and only one of the three stalls operational.

Ubersketch
What do you get when you mix a College and Spadina location with $ 10 pitchers of local beer?
It’s a rhetorical question — if you know the area, you know the answer. This place has laminate floors, halfway-​functional bathrooms, a really «interesting» crowd and cheap beer. We made spot #15 on my epic birthday bender the port of last call on our Queen-​to-​College-​to-​Spadina crawl, and realized almost immediately that we should have stayed at the last bar instead (Ted’s — review forthcoming).
Even with $ 10 pitchers the place wasn’t packed — the rest of the market isn’t so sure about this place either. While we were there, though, I witnessed quite possibly the funniest thing I had seen all weekend: two drunken twenty-​somethings, forgetting their own strength this late in the evening, clinked their glasses together so enthusiastically that they shattered one of them. What a waste of beer.