Heartbreaking though this may be to all of you, the Avanti Bar on 
Sherbrooke West in NDG has shut its golden gates forever. While never a highbrow joint, the unpretentious spot had a nice terrace. The kindly Tamil Sri Lankans at the excellent Rocky Montana Fruit store have purchased the property and plan to expand their fruity operations to the adjacent property.
(BTW, local legend has it that you can also handle some nice ripe melons at the relatively new massage parlour next door to Rocky Montana).
Thanks to a bylaw passed a few mo
ons back by NDG borough Mayor
Michael Applebaum, no new bar can open once it closes in NDG/CDN. So the area will have one less booze joint forever. (Only one area, St. Anne de Bellevue Road will be permitted to see new bars open). So that means that Honey Martins and Maz are pretty much the only places left to drink on Sherbrooke West past the great Crossroads/Claremont duo on the NDG/Westmount border. I know what you're saying... "Hey Chimples, you're forgetting Buster Harvey's!" But alas Buster Harveys is no more either. The bar, owned by the son of NDG hockey legend Doug Harvey, is still around, but it's calling itself Buster Tokebi, as it's part-sushi-bar, part-watering hole.
"a side of cocaine with your maki, sir?"
ReplyDeletetokebi's was notorious...despite the maki and sushi, it seems to still attract the same old crowd.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe avanti is closing...okay it was kind of a dungeon but i didn't know a new bar couldn't open up...weird!