You can go back, but it's just not the same...

July 31st 2012

Peter Pan
373 Queen Street West

What can I say about Peter Pan's?  They have been a fixture of Queen street for as long as I can remember.  It's been over 25 year's, if not more.  I have simply adored the place from the moment I set eyes on it.
Way back in the day when I worked at Garbo's which was just down the street (Queen & Spadina) with the crew, I always went  there to chill out when I was doing a split shift.  My boss back then hated the place.  He couldn't understand why the place always was busy....I told him there was just something about the place, that I couldn't explain.
From the 14' ceilings(at least) to the booths,the worn out wooden floor, and bar that has seen its share of life, to that slanted back beer fridge, that I still am amazed hasn't fallen over by now.  I have been in love with place for many years.
I have brought many a friend and many a "boy" to this place. 
Always awesome food.  Even my daughter(back in the day) would come especially for the desert....."Dealth by Chocolate".

Stephanie and I came here this day hoping to recover from our experience from the day before.
I ordered lamb, Steph ordered steak.  I was very disappointed in my meal, but I ate it anyway.  Steph loved her food and I didn't have the heart to tell her, mine sucked the big one.
My disappointment this day is that why couldn't both of us have had awesome meals?  Why?  That's the way it used to be, anyway.  Back in the day you could go there and no matter what you ordered it was awesome!
Desert was good and no it was not "Death by Chocolate", that's been gone now for awhile, but it was still good.
This makes me sad......that nothing lasts for ever.
Don't get we wrong, I will continue to come to Peter Pan's and sit in those booths and stare at that worn down bar and wonder why that slanted back beer fridge hasn't fallen over, I just have to.

Back in the day, I would bring Devin and my friend Pat and her son Dylan.   I used to read Devin the riot act in the car.  'You be good in there, or you will get put back in the car and left there, while the rest of us sit in there and eat!" (I think both of us did that) because it worked.  On many occasions, the waitress  or another restaurant patron would come over to our table and comment on how well behaved our children were.  Ha!!! We would burst in laughter, and try to react as politely as possible to the comments, knowing full well "the fear of god talk" we had with each of them.  Ah the memories!

Peter Pan's will remain one of my most favourite "go to" places in the city.  It reminds me of why I love to live in this city.  Maybe I just went on a bad day, maybe not.
I will be back as long as Peter Pan's sits at the corner of Peter and Queen.

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