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T H E P A I N T E D L A D Y
SOME REVIEWS OF OUR GREAT FOOD!:
* We've got really delicious food. Within a month and a half of opening we received a
great review by top food critic for the Toronto Star, Corey Mintz. You may read the review here.
* More acknowledgement for our food; This time 'round it's for our pulled pork
sandwich. Good people of Toronto, much, much love goes into this creation...
Brian Sharwood of ossingtonvillage.com writes of it here.
* A review on YELP.CA about us and more good stuff about our Pulled Pork
Sandwich:
I always liked The Painted Lady and after spending a few hours eating and
drinking there last night, I am a big fan. The owners and staff are so nice and fun
and they really believe in making this a place for all kinds of people to have a good
time.
What changed for me last night is I tried the food. HOLY F!! Try the pulled pork
sandwich, it is the best I have had since trying authentic barbecue in North
Carolina... Go now and eat one. AMAZING!
Melinda M. 4/10/2010
MORE REVIEWS & PRESS:
Readers of BLOGTO.COM's 'BEST OF TORONTO' voted The Painted Lady among the top 3 in their 'THE BEST NEW BARS IN TORONTO' list for 2009... Thanks BLOGTO.COM readers! And thanks BLOGTO.COM for providing the venue for such a vote!
And, A BIG THANK YOU to all our patrons, and all the artists who have played our stage. You're ALL wonderful. Actually, some of you are rather mad... in fact, sick and quite twisted. You know who you are! You fit in P U R R F E C T L Y at The Lady.
Thank you for bringing your spirits to bear on our little vortex of Toronto chaos. We're having a blast! You've made our first 2 3/4 years great and memorable ones. The Lady loves you.
TORONTO LIFE - "If Dita Von Teese had a T.O. hang, this would likely be it..."CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
TORONTO LIFE - The Ossington Guide, pg.18: "The bordello-themed Painted Lady ups the strip's retro ante, taking it back to the 40s and 50s with old-school jazz and pre-Kennedy cocktails." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
THE TORONTO STAR - Food Columnist, Corey Mintz's review:
Food is no stranger to irony or figurative speech. [...]
The Painted Lady [...] has a chalkboard menu that touts White Trash Nachos. They are served in a cardboard Chinese takeout container, the style you see in movies that we don't use in Canada. [...] Ground beef chili over top is interspersed with Cheez Wiz. I may forever lose my snob credibility for this, but they're a little stingy with the Wiz. No, I'm not a fan of processed cheese, whether in "slices" or scooped out of a jar, but if you're gonna be a weisenheimer with your food, go all in.
[...] They produce pulled pork sandwiches - not smoked, but braised well with lots of sweet barbeque sauce - served on crusty Portuguese buns [...].
What is noteworthy is that The Painted Lady has mixed bits of ingenuity, cheekiness, and hard work [...]. They've passed on the expected deep-fried choices [...] and spun it into something worth drunkenly texting at 1 a.m.
EXAMINER.COM - Thomas Given's article on The Painted Lady: "...The Lady's long bar itself is impressive... a beautiful solid Mahogany behemoth that thoroughly compliments their space... The bar's area is long and deep, with lit red glass candles dotting the shelves everywhere... The Painted Lady is a great place, you must go at least once (you'll come back, though)... a great vibe. It has that and so much more to offer..." CLICK FOR MORE
TORONTO.COM - The Painted Lady definitely shares the hip factor coveted by most of Ossington's watering holes, but with a New Orleans twist and sans pretention. This Lady's more artsy, with her tufted, red velour and framed pictures of ladies -- from concert posters to pin-ups -- covering the walls..." CLICK TO READ MORE
BLOGTO.COM - Review by Jesse Kinos-Goodin: "The Painted Lady has been my favourite bar on the Ossington strip this year... The idea for a bar actually came from living in New Orleans, when they wanted to open a place where all the hookers could mingle with regular folk (outside of the brothel I guess). It seemed the next best thing was a bar across from a former strip club on Ossington..."
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