Southside Johnny’s

Weird place! But the prices are good, service is good. I had a great time here!
Loaded Nachos is delicious, well seasoned. Club Sandwich also very good.
We enjoyed our meals with a pitcher of Rickards Red

This is a great local spot! Everyone seems to know each other and the service is great. I ordered the Big Johnny (breakfast) and it was a huge serving for only $ 9. The food is standard pub food, no complaints but it’s nothing amazing (it’s a pub after all). We’ll definitely be back.

i love this bar!!!
The food is always great. The service is great, and friendly always welcoming!
I have to say the juke box is amazing. they have everything in there no matter what music you like, they have it.
you feel very relaxed safe and really have a good time. you can walk in there alone sit at the bar, and everybody is friendly.
what more can you ask for great music, great food, and good people. and decently priced.
over 35 years old and up.
they do have pool table. bands and patio. i dont live in the area, but always want to go there sundays.

This place is a sketchy, icky dimly lit dive. I hate going in there. The 4 stars are for the best wings i’ve ever had. Its fully worth venturing in for a pound of these suckers. They’re gigantic and sloppy and always perfectly cooked. The sauces are amazing and they’re pretty inexpensive for the size and quality. Best of all they do take out so you don’t have to stick around and hang out with random drunk lakeshore lizards.

Good wings! Few cheap special priced nights.

Very casual easy going place to hang out and check out the music with your friends or grown up family in Lakeshore West. From the atmosphere, it’s a local, neighborhood hang out place. The place has one of the best lineup as far as live music without a cover charges. Price for the drinks are not too high but not too low either.
Saturday night and wanted to hear a good music and some cool drinks, I was looking forward to checking out the live music, drink was cold as it should be, food was hot and delicious, the live music was great, except the only dumper was the very rude biker looking waitress who practically ignored my existence the whole evening at the bar yet she had no problem serving my partner or everyone else, even go as far as flirted with my partner knowing he was with me right in front of my face as the place was a strip club. Food was great! I would given higher rating for the venue simply because everything else was good aside from few local drunks slurring their words screaming at the bar, but it didn’t bother me, The biker waitress was a real dumper to my visit.
Will I go back? Only if there is another great live show again, not as is.

Stopped in here after a Sunday drive in Mimico. Checked out the Unilocal reviews and decided to stop in for a beer and something to eat.
Service was good. The bartender was attentive and friendly and brought us our drinks quickly. She took our food orders, which was the steak sandwich and wings/​fries.
Food came, surprisingly the steak sandwich was really really good! I was sharing it and actually wanted to keep the whole thing for myself, it was that tasty. Nice tender steak — seasoned nicely, onions and peppers and mushrooms. Delish.
The wings were a nice size. Should have ordered them in sauce though. I got the dry cajun which wasn’t very cajun’y and was very sparse. But the wings were a good size and I just got hot sauce on the side. Everything was hot and tasty.
Beers are VERY cold here. They have a whack of TV’s for sports and a juke box. For some reason, I felt really comfortable here and would absolutely go back when I’m in the area.

Heard about this place, passed by a few times and decided to check it out. Though the service was a little slow at first, the Food was worth the wait. We both ordered a hot hamburger with a side of french fries and steamed broccoli. Delicious and I would consider stopping by again.

Southside Johnny’s is a relaxed little dive on the far west end of Etobicoke’s Longbranch strip that I’m willing to brave the Gardner Expressway for at least twice a month. It’s not sophisticated, urbane, or especially hip. Your trendy queer friends will hate it (unless they have a bluecollar Daddy fetish). It’s also probably not the ideal place for a smootchy first date (unless you’re both over 35 and jeans with Rolling Stones t-​shirts make for your Saturday night ensemble), but if you’re laid-​back, unafraid to talk to strangers, and want some solid chow, this place can be great fun.
What Johnny’s lacks in sophistication it makes up for with comfort, fantastic wings, and probably the most diverse jukebox I’ve found in the entire damned city. Where else can I spin the Andrews Sisters, Santo & Johnny, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, and hundreds of other 50s, jazz, classic rock, and silk-​voiced crooner tunes alongside the alternative and the hiphop? In fact, one of my favourite, secret vices is to go here during their wing nights, fill the juke with tunes that the over-​40s crowd there will love, and sit back to enjoy my dinner while the blue-​collar truckers, retirees, and bikers close their eyes and reminisce of their younger days. They pat my back, shocked to see a younger dude who’s into The Four Seasons, and sometimes I get free drinks. Fun.
The ambience is somewhere between classic rock worship and sportsbar guyspace, with framed posters of dead rock legends between the assorted flatscreens beaming the games. Weekends feature local rock bands like Kat House, Skip Tracer, the Cadillac Daddies, or the AC/​DC cover band Bare Rump (who have to be seen to be believed), with open jams on Sundays.
In addition to their full menu of pubgrub (which includes real meals and not just fastfried garbage), Southside Johnny’s wings are among my favourite in Toronto. Prepared by the owner’s mother, a sweet elderly woman who loves to see folks enjoying her cooking, Johnny’s suicide wings are zesty, smooth, always moist and meaty, and swimming in a thin but fiery sauce that’s similar to (but better than) Duff’s and with a pleasant, nutty aftertaste. Wing nights are Sundays, Mondays, and Wednesdays, when these large babies are available for .50 each, served in groups of ten. Down a basket with a frosty pint of Rickard’s Red, drop a twonie for some Santana, and enjoy yourself.
This is a place for casual, unpretentiously good beer and solid food. Simple pleasures at its best. Go to relax, not to impress.