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What’s on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap

By Caroline Aksich| Photography by Caroline Aksich
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What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap

Name: Craft Beer Market Contact: 1 Adelaide St. E., 437-922-2337, craftbeermarket.ca/toronto, @crafttoronto
Neighbourhood: Financial District Owners: PJ L’Heureux Chef: Cameron McGowan

The drinks

Beer, of course. Out of the 160 taps, 145 of them are devoted to beer. The encyclopedic menu includes a handful of macrobrews (Bud Light, Guinness, Kronenbourg), a bunch of the bigger Canadian brands (Mill Street, Steam Whistle, Beau’s, Big Rock, Le Trou du Diable) and a surprising amount of Toronto and Ontario microbreweries (Blood Brothers, Brimstone, Elora, Collective Arts, Henderson, Clifford, Calabogie). The remaining 15 lines pour wine, cider, ginger beer and even kombucha.

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
Fortunately for staff, the taps seem to be in alphabetical order.

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
Pictured here: beer.

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
A chalkboard displays beers from breweries like Toronto’s own Godspeed, Barrie’s Redline and Ottawa’s Kichesippi, rotates regularly.

 

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What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
The keg room.

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
Owner PJ L’Heureux.

 

The food

This Calgary-born concept first spread out west, with locations in Edmonton and Vancouver, and then moved east to Ottawa before gracing Toronto. Everything here is Prairie-sky huge, from the 420-seat space, to the 160 taps, to the nearly 50-item menu, which includes just about every North American bar-food favourite: wings, poutine, burgers, ribs, nachos and fried pickles. A few international flavours (tacos, ahi poke bowls, coconut curry shrimp, Korean lettuce wraps) round out the offerings.

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
A trio of shrimp tacos, made with white corn tortillas and topped with aged white cheddar, pico de gallo and a lime-avocado cream sauce. ($14.50). They’re pictured here with the Twenty Mile farmhouse saison from Beamsville’s Bench Brewing Co.).

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
The Yucatan chicken salad is a mix of greens, fire-roasted corn, pico de gallo, avocado, roasted red pepper, black beans, shredded cheddar and crispy tortilla, all topped with a chili-lime dressing ($17.50). It’s pictured with a half-litre of Pilsner Urquell

 

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What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
This grilled west-coast salmon is served with quinoa, almonds and green beans sautéed in a chili-garlic vinaigrette ($26). It’s pictured here with Left Field’s Laser Show, a super-juicy IIPA.

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
The coconut curry shrimp bowl: shrimp, jasmine rice, bok choy and roasted mushrooms ($19.50). Pictured here with Railway City’s The Witty Traveller, a witbier brewed with coriander and orange.

 

The space

“This is my craft beer cathedral,” says L’Heureux, looking down from the mezzanine onto the bustling main floor below. The 16,000-square-foot, two-storey space will be even bigger by next summer, thanks to the addition of a 250-seat courtyard patio.

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
These are some serious pipes. (Insert flexed arm emoji here.)

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
And again.

 

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What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap
Here’s where the patio will be.

 

What's on the menu at Craft Beer Market, a 400-seat bar with 145 beers on tap

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Caroline Aksich, a National Magazine Award recipient, is an ex-Montrealer who writes about Toronto’s ever-evolving food scene, real estate and culture for Toronto Life, Fodor’s, Designlines, Canadian Business, Glory Media and Post City. Her work ranges from features on octopus-hunting in the Adriatic to celebrity profiles.

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