Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery

I love Irish and Scottish Bars. Places like the Caledonian, Mcveights, Dora Keoghs; where the atmosphere is as close as you will find to those places without forking out the $ 1000 plane ticket.
Titled Kilt is not one of those places. Instead its a cruel inversion of hundreds of years of drinking culture. When you are confronted with practically topless ladies in super short kilts its just kinda meh. Not really erotic, just kinda in your face. My poor Scottish gran would be rolling over in her grave. The worst kind of North American Excess put on top of a real culture. As an old Irish Man once told me. «THERES NO SEX in IRISH MUSIC»… The same goes for pubs.

I visited this place with family after my graduation ceremony as it was closest to the Sony Center and we had just parked right across from it. We got a bunch of appetizers, wings, nachos, spinach dip and didn’t find them to be all that bad. It is standard pub food though so you get what you get. The place was pretty busy that day as it was the start of the World Cup.
The server was really great and I think kept distracting my 8 year old nephew at the time with their uniforms. Not the most kid friendly atmosphere to be in for kids but he enjoyed himself there too.
One thing in particular I enjoyed was the complimentary baked cookie with ice cream I got as a Congratulations from them. Usually you expect to get one of the cheapest desserts on the menu that end up being tiny however this dessert served best for all 6 of us that were there.
Kudos to the Tilted Kilt for not being stingy.

This is just a run-​of-​the-​mill pub. The food was average & so were the drinks. Place was pretty quiet for a Sunday nite. Service was good from our server «Francesca». She was sweet & lovely. Otherwise no real compliments of complaints except the size of the chicken bits. They were good tasting but a very small order for $ 14.99.

Would really give here 2.5 stars. Typical pub when it comes to décor and size (lots of wall signage, basic wooden tables, kind of low lighting, a large bar, etc). When it first opened a few years ago, I found it was busy and hard to get in, at least at night. Came here on a recent Saturday night in December around 6pm and the place wasn’t half full. The servers are all females that are wearing ‘adult’ school uniforms (eg plaid mini skirt, white shirt tied up to show the midriff). So that’s their thing and that’s fine. Service is okay. The food is okay. I really enjoyed their California burger (but made with their black bean patty instead, as I’m vegetarian). My partner really enjoyed their wings but found them pricey at $ 2/​each. Their shepherd’s pie is apparently very salty, almost too much so, according to a friend. Their bacon cheeseburger is good, according to another friend, but he had to eat it with a fork and knife because the bun wasn’t strong enough to hold together what’s inside. They ran out of sweet potato fries and pinot grigio the night that we were there. Another in our party agreed to switch her order to regular fries instead, but the plate of those came out by itself, ahead of all of our other meals. She didn’t want to start eating it without us having our food, so the server took it back and brought fresh ones out again when we were all served together. The bathrooms are individual private stalls with co-​ed sinks outside them. Overall, nothing terrible, but nothing great here. I’m not dying to go back any time soon.

Normally, people do not bother reading the reviews for a franchise shop as they expect a consistent level of service among them.
But, Tilted Kilt in Esplanade made me believe that this is not correct.
BE PREPARED TO WAIT FOR AT LEAST ONE HOUR FOR YOUR FOOD:
We went there on a Friday for lunch where there were only 8 – 10 people siting around with a drink. We ordered the drink and 2 immediately ordered the food as well. 40 minutes later, I asked the waitress about the food and she said our food is ready and just about to be served. 15 minutes later, I asked her again and she said sorry we have only one chef and he is working hard to catch up with the orders. 10 Minutes later, I asked for the bill and guess what, instead of offering us a drink on the house or free food, they said OK here is your bill.
I WILL NEVER EVER GO TO THIS PLACE AGAIN.
Too bad I did not read the reviews before going to this place as it appears that this is their consistent practice.

We stopped here before the Leaf game on Oct 31. We had the Irish dip sandwich (so good) and the traditional wings (just as good)
The food came quickly and it was nice and hot when it arrived. Our beer was ice cold from the tap. Our waitress was very friendly and efficient. Overall we thought this was a fantastic bar! We will come back and we will tell our friends about this place.

You must remember that this pub changed ownership in August so see posts since then to be accurate. When I was there in August it was fantastic! A brand new place!

Best food and eye candy!
Best Chicken Tenders and Wings!!!
Steak is to Die For!

Hey if you didn’t know they just reopened this August with new girls and what seems to be a better kitchen staff. I see a lot of new talent and I recognize maybe one or two familiar faces. Either way a great place to watch the jays and a great place to start a friendly conversation.

Great place to watch a game downtown. The beer selection isn’t very complex but it doesn’t need to be. You get exactly what you expect here. Food is decent and the price is what you’d expect.
Highly recommend this place. Thanks Cor!

What an awful bar. They were out if my first two choices, so I had to settle on the Irish stew. I swear it was just poured out of a can and put in the microwave. The side dish «garlic bread» was just two slices of bread that were buttered and put in the toaster and sprinkled with garlic powder. I make a much better Irish stew than that.
P. S. What Scottish/​Irish bar doesn’t have Guinness? Tilted Kilt.

Well all I can say is the beer is cold and the girls are pretty. The rest was something to forget. The menus were dirty and should have been thrown out. The cutlery not clean. The food disgusting. The owners and managers have given up. Its time to fix it or close it. We wont be back.

Food was fine. Service was beyond horrible. It took forever to get simple things like water, napkins, the bill… etc.
The point of this place is eye candy. (if you find this objectionable, don’t go) But if you want return business, you need better customer service. Looks only go so far.

In competition with the three other pubs along this stretch of The Esplanade, we were hoping for similar quality and service but unfortunately, we were let down.
The servers are very nice looking, friendly, and definitely not shy about showing off their assets, but service could be improved. When our food arrived, no cutlery nor serviettes were brought. .. we had to ask our server. Speed of service was what you would expect, no better no worse.
Food quality could be greatly improved. Reasonably priced, but the taste, freshness, and seasoning just wasn’t there. Fries were soggy, which is definitely a bad sign… pubs SHOULD know how to do fries and the ones that don’t, you can probably be sure that the rest of the menu is equally mediocre.
I’d be willing to go back for drinks since there is a good bar scene and with the nicer weather, patio seating. But I’d probably eat elsewhere before or after.

Before the Toronto Rock game last night, we had supper at the Tilted Kilt. I’d been to the one in Las Vegas in October and enjoyed it.
Gord had the pasta special … Pesto Alfredo Penne with Chicken (it came with garlic bread). He said it was very good and he’d get it again.
I ordered the Chicken Fried Chicken (minus the veggies). It was good and I’d get it again. It was light on the gravy, though, so I asked for extra (which it turned out they charged me $ 1 extra for). The gravy was tasty but was more like a sauce rather than a gravy so that’s probably why I needed extra … plus it was «covered» as in the description, more like dipped.
Molly was our server. Though Gord’s beer order got mixed up, she was friendly and took good care of us.

This is not a good place to eat. They didn’t have the food we wanted in stock. Waitress messed up our entire order. Gave the person who ordered beer water and the person who order water beer. No sauce on the burgers, waitress saw us once after she took our order. Food took forever to come out and we were one of the few people in there.

Food is well below average. The service was not good. My friend asked for blue cheese and never got it. I ordered water and she never brought it so I just drank my friends water. There weren’t that many people in the restaurant when we were there, I don’t understand how our requests were not getting carried out. The prices are higher than it should for the quality of food.

This place is all about objectification of women. The uniforms welcome using your male gaze on the wait staff. Now, don’t get me wrong — people normally know that going in. That’s not what my review is based on.
The burger was the driest, worst, burger I’ve ever had. It’s literally the worst hamburger I’ve ever had in my life. So that’s terrible.
Now, add to that that they served my friend beer three times, and didn’t know what the beer was they gave him. He asked for one, they said they brought it, but it turns out later they didn’t. Then it turned out they didn’t have any of the two types they said they brought him. I don’t know what nonsense this was.
But then his collectible mini pitcher was taken away by the waitress, and when he asked about it she said he couldn’t keep it, until other waitresses came over and corrected her.
All in all — this place was awful.

Kassidy (pretty sure she gave us a fake name) was a gem.
I was the only female in our party and she worked extra hard to make sure I felt comfortable. She was really friendly and made tonnes of jokes throughout our visit.
I thought the nachos were pretty yummy (not as good as Jack Astor’s) and they came with a decent selection of side sauces. My brother devoured his wings, so I’m assuming they were good.
There are huge TVs everywhere but the atmosphere isn’t overshadowed by loud noises.
And I’m assuming this is what a lot of you are wondering —
YES, the waitresses dress in a revealing manner.
BUT nothing you wouldn’t see at a frat party.
ALSO they have fairly normal College Girl bodies. Not ginormous boobs or anything. Just nice lean toned figures.

So my friends and I had just finished at the Hockey Hall of Fame and we wanted to grab some drinks. One of them wanted to go here since they had heard of it before.
I guess it’s famous for the clothes the servers wear. I noticed while walking up that the servers really bend over when helping or talking to customers.
Our server was fine. She was friendly, but not overly flirty. Some people might like the flirty behaviour, but I can’t stand that. And it always gets awkward when I have to tell servers not to touch me. And those happen at «normal» restaurants.
The best way to describe the Tilted Kilt is that it’s like a strip club with no nudity and worse food.
I got the spicy southwest chicken wrap. It wasn’t spicy and probably the chicken wasn’t from the southwest either. There was nothing bad about it, but it would be the equivalent of fast food. I upgraded to the caesar salad. It’s hard to mess up a caesar salad, but they tried their best. The lettuce was warm and the cheese was powdery and the croutons were obviously pre-​packed. It wasn’t even as good as those packages you can get from the supermarket.
I got a Stella. It was good, about $ 8.
It’s overpriced, but I guess you are paying for cleavage.
Honestly, if you want to see breasts and feel hungry at the same time, just rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, go to McDonalds and you will save money, and get better quality.