Bloordale favourite Shaker's Club has quietly reopened its doors with a menu that looks a little different from last year.
The fusion Korean restaurant retains its cool aesthetic with neon signs, dim lighting and retro furniture and fixtures, and welcomes its loyal and new customers with a menu that has an "insane amount of care and passion pressed into it," according to Shaker's Club on Instagram.
The restaurant reopened in early December with just a dinner menu, available from Tuesday to Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight. This is a change, as the restaurant once served epic hoagies and cheesesteaks by day, and transformed into low-key dinner digs by night.
That said, the elusive Leemo Han and Ihn Huh—who are also the great minds behind such Toronto eateries as Hanmoto and Seoul Shaker's—continue to bring cozy and innovative dishes to the west end.
The Shaker's Club dinner menu encompasses oysters, prawn spring rolls, soy bean hummus with nori sourdough, Japanese curry pie, and a single dessert, the red bean sticky toffee pudding with buckwheat ice cream.
Highlights include the galbi mandu (steamed beef dumplings with chili oil, cilantro and a red onion salad) and the yukkae (beef and scallop tartare, sweet soy, sesame oil, pickled daikon and nori sourdough).
Let's not forget the drinks! The beverage menu showcases a curated collection of beer, wine, sake and soju, and six house cocktails, some of which contain pop rocks, for the nostalgia and novelty-seekers.
Via Instagram, Shaker's Club has also teased that late night hours are coming soon.
Shaker's Club is located at 1261 Bloor Street West. To keep up with Shaker's Club, follow them on Instagram.
