Lou Dawg’s

I had an amaretto sour cocktail that was quite good, and I‘ve heard great things about the fried pickles. But in general the food was meh.

Came here last night for drinks on Valentine’s Day. My friend and I were the only ones in the bar, and the bar tender made some incredible shots. B-​52, coffee crisps, and polar bears.
At some point I must have dropped by wallet, and the bartenders were honest enough to keep it safe until I called in today to pick it up.
Awesome drinks
Great atmosphere
Safe place
Honest people
Great place to go and feel well taken care of while having a good time. I forget the bartenders name but props to him. Solid place!

I come here with friends today. I ordered the chicken pulled for 9.95 which come with the sandwatch only if you want to order fries it is an extra of 2.99. The burger was good but I will recommend the pulled pork sandwatch instead as it is cheaper and taste better. I got steam whistle and the house beer both are similar and good I will recoment both. The place is nice with clean washrooms. It is not a crazy bar with many drunk weirdos. So if what you looking for I will recoment this place. Definitely not the bet around but it is not bad either.

Not much to say about this place. Food is okay, we got the chicken & cheese chilli, pulled pork sandwich, pulled pork loutine, and the meat platter with brisket plus mashed sweet potato and beans. No one was over impressed by the food. My meal (chilli) i suspext was just microwaved… It was a little hotter than lukewarm and very watery.
The vibe here seems very chill, maybe too much. I say this because you can’t really tell who works there or not. Also another waiter at the table next to ours kept sitting down with the 2 patrons and watching the game playing on the TV.

On my way to another food joint down the street, I walked by Lou Dawgs and noticed, for the first time, that they have a fast order sandwich shop in the basement! Score! I hate having to order over the phone for restaurant takeout and then be the person awkwardly sitting in the bar waiting by myself.
I was the only customer on a Friday at lunchtime. Took a look at the menu and asked what was the most popular («pulled pork»), but I make a mean pulled pork myself, so I went for the brisket sandwich. The guy behind the cash (who also was the only person there) asked me if I wanted it done po-​boy style and I said yes, not realizing til afterwards that it was an extra charge to basically have coleslaw put on top of the sandwich on a different bun. Oh well.
With a drink and fries, the whole thing came to $ 19, which is pretty steep for lunch in the core for one person, but there was a LOT of food that could have easily been split between two moderately hungry people. The brisket was tender and tasty and the coleslaw upgrade? Definitely worth it, though I’m not sure if the standard sandwich comes with it (I’m thinking no based on the menu). Fries were super tasty and a large portion! Overall, great food, decent price.
One thing, the guy behind the counter could have been friendlier. I’m your only bloody customer and you can’t be bothered to keep up conversation with me while I pay and wait? And I’m not talking taxing stuff, just asking about the restaurant, their food, etc. You think they’d want to try a little harder to get and keep customers coming back. I’ll be back to try something else off the menu.

Lou Dawg’s is a really solid joint. Well located for people coming from different corners of downtown and nicely tucked away from the busy-​ness of Yonge.
Prices are pretty average for the location and the fare is tasty. Pulled pork poutine and 1 lb. of wings was good enough for a friend and I to share; I left entirely satisfied. The dry rub wings are probably the best bet because you get all the sauces on the side so you can choose whichever one tickles your fancy. The BBQ was my dipping sauce of choice. Caveat emptor: one pound of wings here is only 4, so plan accordingly. They’re meaty, but not huge. It was the poutine that really filled us up.
Also, half priced wings on Monday and Wednesday! Service was great – friendly, courteous, and decently prompt.

I would come here on Monday nights to enjoy their open mic. Love their dry rub wings which are ½ off on Mondays. Great sweet potato fries as well. The servers are all friendly and very attentive.

You would think Lou Dawgs would be cheaper considering it is affiliated with Ryerson and many students from there come here. The beer is very expensive as the cheapest pitcher of beer here is their house beer at $ 17 before 8pm and $ 21 after in which taste like you stuck a penny in your mouth (we all did it when we were little). Steam Whistle will ring you up to $ 23 for a pitcher, the food is bland and boring. Ordered pulled pork and upgraded to sweet fries for $ 1 extra, to find out on the bill It actually cost $ 2 extra. The pulled pork was just sliced pork with BBQ sauce on a hot dog bun.

Decided to try for the 2^nd time today. I ordered the BBQ ribs and a side of well done fries. I also asked for «light» sauce on the ribs. The fries were terrible (I think they may have given me sweet potato fries by accident. They were really bad). Hard to describe. The ribs were bad too. Very fatty and chewy and drenched in sauce. I thought that they were a smokehouse and that BBQ was their thing. Just terrible all the way around. The staff/​bar guy was nice however.

The food is kind of expensive for fast food, but at least it tastes good! I don’t like spending $ 15+ for lunch.
I think they have changed their buns since the last time I went. I like the baguette style. The fish sandwich is really good, and the corn and bean salad is my favourite side. The portions are pretty good.
I love the corn bread muffins!

Came here today for la poutine week and the big dawg poutine is pretty awesome. Ordered the large poutine for $ 15 and the portion was huge! You can share this with 3 people. Deadly. But the pulled pork was really yummy, sweet and full of bbq flavour. I also like the beans as it added a great texture to the gravy. Gravy was definitely on point. The homemade coleslaw was so delicious and fresh… I only wish they added more of that as toppings to balance off the «fatty» ingredients.
The only problem about this poutine is that it’s very filling. I almost knocked out.
Great place. Would definitely come here again to try their other signatures. The menu has a lot of variety and definitely great for late nights. Bar food at its finest.

This is one of my absolute favourite poutine places in Toronto!!! The number of times I’ve convinced myself that I don’t need a poutine from there and I end up getting one is ridiculous.
Whenever I go there I either get the traditional poutine with beef brisket or angry loutine with beef. I also get their dry rub wings, which are amazing! I don’t know how to describe them, but trying them is a must!
The staff is super friendly, some of them know me because of the number of times I’ve been (kinda embarrassing). I always ask for my poutine to be served in one of their bigger baskets that way all of the gravy and cheese is distributed evenly. I also think they’ll fill it with more fried even though you are paying for small lol
Highly recommend this place!

My feelings are mixed about this place. To start off, the food. While I’m not the biggest fan of the whole BBQ fab (yes, I’m calling it a fab) I did enjoy the chicken and pulled pork alot more than I had thought. I did find it overly sweet which is odd. As a side I had ordered the beans and this is where things went down hill.
Too sweet!
The beans tasted like they were placed in some kind of sugar water.
However for what it’s worth, I did feel full afterwards.
Service was… slow. I get it, middle of the day, no one really was around. But still, when people walk in at least smile or welcome us in! I came in and sat down for a good while before someone showed up to take our order/​bring us a cup of water.
All in all, it’s okay. When it’s full of people the air within this place changes for the better!

Reviewed Dish: Pull pork sandwich
Reviewed during: Mon — Fri Lunch time
Service Speed: ⁰⁄₅
Cooking speed: ⁰⁄₅
Food Quality: ¹⁄₅
Food Quantity: ¹⁄₅
Price: ¹⁄₅ (Very pricy for a tiny sandwich)
Cleanness: ⁴⁄₅
Repeat: NO!
When I tried their free sample at Ryerson frosh week, it tasted really good, I had such high hope for a good pull pork sandwich.
But when I walked into the restaurant at lunch, it’s a ghost town — Not a good sign already. We are the only dine in customer, but we have to wait forever for the food. And the portion is tiny. I’m afraid the freebie tasted better than the paid sandwich…

I like this place! I’ve bookmarked this restaurant for the longest time but I never think of coming here for dinner. They have two locations and one of them is quite close to the Eaton Centre which makes it a perfect dinner destination after a day of shopping.
I won’t lie, I had super low expectation for this restaurant because it seems like there weren’t that many great reviews for it. Also, when I went into the restaurant, it was dead.
My friend ordered pulled chicken and beef brisket with fries. I was shocked by the amount of flavour packed in each dish. I ordered the pulled pork chilli. You wouldn’t think it’ll be filling just by looking at it but I couldn’t finish the meal! It was a good consistency and they didn’t skimp out on the pulled pork.
As I’m writing this review, I realized how much I miss this restaurant and I need to go back there soon!

One server for the entire top floor + bar = SLOW SERVICE. We had to catch a movie so we pretty much left hungry. We came with our Joylister Poutine Passport and recieved a «half size» Loutine. It was tiny. So tiny I was hungry again in 2 hours (we went to Five Guys, YAY!).
I really wanted to order more food but there was no time as it took 10+ minutes (and only because I approached the bar after patiently sitting at our table) before we could be put our order in and another 15 before we got our poutine. To get the bill and pay was another 5 – 8 minutes. That’s 30 minutes for the things other restaurants can get done in 10 minutes. This is not the servers fault but managements. Our server was as good as he could be considering he had to wait on groups of people, plus people at the bar and deliver food to each table.
They were also out of a couple of beers. On a Tuesday.
The Loutine was fine but was soured by the whole experience. The size was equivalent to a snack size, probably half of a small… which is extremely cheap on their part.
Side note: Joylister was great about our concerns about the size of the poutine offered here.

Visited the Ryerson location last night for dinner, drinks and some American Thankgiving football. I’d been here once before for drinks on their backyard patio (which they close off early due to noise restrictions — kinda lame) but had never visited for food.
Understandably, weekdays can be slower nights (especially as we draw closer to exam season for University students) but to only have 1 bartender and 1 server working, I thought was poor planning as the place was busy and while the server on hand was doing his best, it took a long time for things to happen.
In terms of beer selection, it was fairly standard, however their Lou’s Brews (a dark and a lager) were a nice edition and locally brewed at the Molson brew academy. We had a few of these pops, although the lager was very close to a Molson Canadian or Labatt Blue. not spectacular but still pretty good.
I give them extra points for their drink special last night 4L of draught beer for $ 25. To do the math on that it’s approximately 12 beers, so great value here!
Apparently Lou’s is famous for BBQ, specifically for their pulled pork, and lay claim to being the FIRST in Toronto to add pulled pork to poutine. Big claim, but I won’t question it, it all tastes good to me! We decided to share the 3 meat + 2 sides between us and for $ 15+tax it was a steal of a deal.
I went for the pulled pork, pulled chicken and brisket as the meats AND had the deep fried pickle spears and Jalapeño/​Cheddar Corn muffin as our shared sides. The verdict:
— Pulled pork, well cooked, good smoke, nice taste
— Pulled Chicken, my favourite of the bunch, great BBQ sauce and tender/​juicy
— Brisket, meh. OK. Some was good and some was not so hot
— Pickle Spears, pretty standard BUT the dipping sauce was great that it came with
— Corn Muffin, rock hard, dry, and had hard nugget of cheddar in it. Could have been better
Overall a pretty good experience but a couple of points lost along the way that I think could be easily redeemable if they worked on these areas!
I’d come back if in the area, and I’d recommend it as a cool place to come for some well priced BBQ.
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Came here after work last week. Had the pulled pork with fries and mashed. It was okay. Had a pitcher of the house beer as well, for $ 21!!! My god, thats alot of money for meh beer. 2.5 stars.

I’d imagined this place would be packed during the school year since it’s right across the street from Ryerson [insert warm campus memories here]. But on a cool summer Saturday night, it was oddly empty. They also open until 4am every day, great for after-​hours munchies or the like.
The Ryerson Low Dawg’s is divided into two levels: the lower floor is just a takeout joint, and the upstairs is the full bar and table service. You can get to either level from the outside or from the inside stairs. Nothing to say about the basic campus bar décor, other than that the lights do have a weird tendency to flicker at times. Washrooms are crammed and small; don’t say I didn’t warn you about opening the door to a wall and not knowing which way to turn.
There was probably like two people staffing the whole place, so service is minimal – great if you just want to be left alone catching up with old friends in a quiet campus bar. Not great if you actually want something, even if you and your pals are the only one in the house.
I was warned about the Loutine. I am a sucker for anything pulled pork and poutine, so to put them together, fuck yeah it better be good.
Except the Loutine didn’t make me wanna cry hallelujah. «Meh» would be a better adjective. Good enough to make your stomach shut up and smile, but not as impressive as anything from Smoke’s.
Their beer selection is limited to mostly a handful of big industrial brands. They do have a couple house brand brews, but they are nothing special – I was warned also that the Low Dawg’s Lager is kind of like Molson, and trust me, it is good stuff only if you consider Canadian to be good stuff. Moreover, they have an even more limited veggie option.
If you just wanna eat something from here, you’re better off heading downstairs for takeout.
{TTC: the 506 to Church Street and then a walk south to Gerrard would probably the the shortest transit option.}

Situé à 5 minutes de college station le Lou Dawg’s né paie pas de mine. Le bon plan ici c’est le patio avec 5 grandes tables, le top en été. Allez y en semaine si vous venez en groupe, il y a de la place!
Located 5 minutes away from College station the Lou Dawg does seems like any other bar from the outside. The great thing here is the patio with 5 tables, it is perfect in the summer if you wanna come with a big group of people. Do prefer the week days though, I believe it can get pretty busy on the week ends.

Beef brisket is tender, moist and flavourful, so the uninteresting bun is not a big deal.
The pulled pork while decent, is not as good as the brisket.
For sides, the meaty beans is a must… and if you are a fan of sweet potato fries, avoid them here, they are soft, mushy and burnt!
The best thing about this place is they are open late, so a great place for the late night munchies!
They have Karaōke on Tuesday nights which seems popular with the Ryerson students.
Can’t speak to the dining experience, we always do take out since we already liked the food from eating at the original Lou Dawgs on King West.