The Linsmore, one of the east-end’s two remaining traditional hotel taverns, has been spilling beer on its carpets since 1934.
Like most extant hotel taverns, the upstairs rooms have become apartments or storage units. So, don’t go thinking you can rent a room for that special someone you just charmed by doing “Cool Hand Luke” with their pickled eggs.
Today, the Linsmore is all about drinking and grooving to cover bands that crank out anything relating to the words rock, roll, country, and western. Never hip and hop.
It’s packed on show nights, so prepare to be poked and prodded. And maybe even pinched by someone like the elderly lady who grabbed my bottom and said I reminded her of her late husband Harold.