Midtown Gastro Hub

Despite other reviewers, I am a fan.
It was about time this Fox got a new name and face. It’s been a little while now, but I figured it’s time for me to chime in.
Much of the same can still be said: great food and drink selection, friendly service.
Still the same great, hands-​on owners and management making sure their guests have a good experience (and like most places, regulars are always very well looked after. and this establishment has a lot of them). Still mostly the same staff, with a few new faces as well. Still houses the same great, spacious facilities — three amazing patios, including a non-​smoking patio and a roof-​top patio (worth the 4 stars alone)! A cozy bar and booths add to the intimate atmosphere, as does a pool table in the back and TVs EVERYWHERE (including a massive floor-​to-​ceiling projection screen in the main room). The establishment itself underwent an impressively quick renovation, that definitely did the trick — visually more of a restaurant feel than a pub, but they’re still home to Tuesday Trivia Nights and Thursday Karaōke, as well as daily food & drink specials to boot!
Prices have gone up a bit, as expected. The menu is more concise and more interesting — having tried most of the menu now, I have yet to be disappointed, and have found a few new favourites. The bar has been bolstered with many new beers on tap, including some craft brews.
Of all the pubs in the neighbourhood, this is still my go-​to for good reason.

Please don’t eat here. $ 15 cheeseburger? It’s a frozen patty! $ 12 wings — frozen and breaded. Even with half price wings I feel cheated. No need to come here again. May as well have stayed a Firken franchise. Too many other worthwhile options in the neighborhood to warrant a return visit.

Ordered the fish and chips — it was terrible. The fries were old and stale, and don’t understand how they were allowed to be served. The fish was beyond mediocre, but not as bad as the fries. The service is fine. Go here if you need a place to hide a date and drink, but NEVER to eat.

I’ve been going here weekly when it was the Fox and the Fiddle and now as the gastropub for quiz nights. The beer and drinks are a good price and the events they have are fun.
However, the food at the fox and the fiddle was at best as good as food at a fast food joint, except bigger portions.
Thought when they changed to gastro pub they would have fired who ever did their cooking… nope.
Food now looks better but tastes just the same.
The burger looks good but was bland the bun was way too big for the patty size and the fries were dry. Salad was OK but my vegetarian friend got a salad entry and said the lettuce was wilted.
So far the poutine has been a safe bet. The only thing that has been improved is the plating.

The service is not professional and the breakfast was very badly made. Have been here a few times but not coming back again for sure! The western omelette felt like it was cooked in the microwave and the bread was dry. There were 3 potato wedges and the sausage was cold. To worsen it, Water was offered in plastic cups.

Oct. 31 2015 my Meetup group of 40 or so arrived here today. Speaking for my small group of 8 or so, at my table, we loved this place! The server Toby (beautiful Australian) served us with warm efficiency to the end! The manageress even came by to see how we were etc. I’m glad to say my lamburger with arugula was delicious, French fries served with aplomb. It’s what I expect from a better then the usual pub! Nice, check it out!

Servers seem to be lost and service isn’t very good. I ordered a drink and took them almost 15 min to bring it to my table (and the place was not busy).
I had the bison burger which was a bit dry but flavour was good. I asked for ketchup and the waitress brings me a little cup with ketchup (probably a tablespoon). I asked for another one and she rolled her eyes.

This was a nice spot for a warm summer evening. We came to grab a drink on one of there couple patios which are quite nice. Average pricing and choice for drinks selection. Service was slow in the beginning but out server warmed up to us by the end and was very cheerful, but there was minor sass here and there. She spilled water on me which is fine, but then forgot to bring me a drink twice. Overall it’s definitely a great drinking hub in this area and best for patios for sure. I think we just came on an off night but overall I enjoyed myself and would come back!

This place is not off to a great start. I’ve tried it twice so far and it’s been 0 for 2. Firstly, they have beers on the menu that they serve downstairs but couldn’t bring one up to the upstairs patio… Really? Staples like wings are ok. But the burger was mediocre, the jambalaya was sad (no rice and a few little shrimp) and others complained that the Burrito Bowl was blah. The menu tries to insert all these funky creations but they should instead just focus on doing things right.

WTF have they done to the Fox and Fiddle?
What used to be a friendly, fun local pub is now a sad, trying to be flashy restaurant with servers in short black skirts and low cut tops with their breasts in my face. Gross. All I wanted was nachos, and they were gross, too.
I was intrigued that the new menu included the option to add duck to your nachos. EPIC FAIL. If the small shreds of fowl on my nachos were indeed duck, it was the driest, oldest duck I’ve ever had. At all other «gastro pubs», the duck used to top things is confit, which is moist and has been slow cooked in it’s own fat. What I could find on my nachos was dry, and tasted like old turkey or maybe it was wet cardboard used to store old turkey. Either way, it was, indeed, FOUL.
The nachos used to be great at the Fox and Fiddle and my friend and I would regularly visit just to have them. This place was a huge disappointment from the service which was haphazard and spotty, to the food, which was absolute crap.
Not to mention the fact that what this place has become a lame version of something you’d find at Yonge and Eglinton, but I don’t think it’s going to fly at Yonge and St. Clair, where the mainstay is older people, families and locals who want either casual pub fare or fine dining. Fox and Fiddle used to be a large chain restaurant, but at least they had good food, friendly service and a pub environment. They knew what they were. Midtown «Gastro Hub» is sadly confused as to what it wants to be. I give this incarnation a year to be driven into a sinkhole of oblivion. The owner who did this has fallen prey to the new corporate breastaurant structure serving shit food and asking their servers to get their «assets» out in order to get people in the door.
Get your tits out of my nachos.
On second thought, maybe the boobs would taste better than the duck.

Terrible.
I visited before numerous times when it was a Fox&Fiddle. The only redeeming factor was that the menu items were decent. The service however was bad.
Guess what? Service is still bad and the new menu is extremely unattractive. They dont even serve a regular burger or chicken wings without adding something really funky to it (crab cakes on a bison burger??) I had to return a spinach omelette plate because it was just so poorly made.
Their beverage cups smelt funky and the décor is also very underwhelming. The servers seemed lost not knowing which table ordered what and wait times were extremely long.
Do not recommend. Wont be visiting again.

Visited on Sat May 16, 2015 from 6pm to 11pm party of 25. I made my reservation a month prior when it was still a Fox and the Fiddle. They closed for a few weeks for renovations. They took out the carpeting, put in new hardwood floors and changed the interior décor a little bit. I have come a few times when it was the Fox and it looks fairly similar. The menu has changed significantly and it is only one page long. I ordered the Burrito Bowl which was quite good, waffle fries which were average and the combo appetizer platter which was really greasy.
Service was a bit unreliable and spotty even though two servers were introduced to me. I was on the 2^nd level overlooking the main level. There is an exposed server station right beside the tables which looked kind of messy. The servers finished their shift around 10pm and I had to close my bill which was a bit annoying as we were not done yet.
The rooftop patio is open and overlooks Yonge st, beautiful view! It is partially covered as well. Lots of TV’s to show sports games. I would come back again. Great for large groups. Hopefully they play UFC fights.