r/barrie • u/Pedrolami • 1d ago
Question Anyone know of this bar?
Hi all,
A long time ago, around 30 years, I was in Canada in the Barrie area visiting my cousin. One night we went to a place that I only know as the ‘pizza pub’. I have little recollection other than I don’t think it was in an urban area and it sold pizza and beer. It also allowed me to run up a tab which, back then for a 20 something year old English guy, was rather foolish.
I have been back to Canada many times but I have never been back to this bar and would love to know if it is still there for me to do a return visit.
Anyone have an idea?
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u/HardcoreHandsome 1d ago
Pizza pub on Leacock, my parents frequented there quite regularly.
It Is however loooooonnnggg gone.
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u/OntFF 1d ago
Quick trip with Google Maps tells me it is (or was?) O'Hara 's pub now... i moved away like 10 years ago, myself
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u/Skeptikell1 1d ago
It’s at 420 Leacock plaza -really needs a weed outlet lol
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u/TheNihilistNarwhal 1d ago
Man, I'd settle for a coffee shop. Ideally a breakfast place... If O'Hara's started serving a breakfast/brunch situation I would frequent it more.
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u/conehead1313 1d ago
There was a coffee shop there at one time, right beside the pub. Where the nail place is now.
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u/Thegreatrandouso 1d ago
There is a bar there though in the same spot - O’Hara’s Public House. I’ve never darkened their doors though…
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u/OntFF 1d ago
Latetia Heights - in the plaza on Leacock... 20 years ago feels about right, kind of a strip plaza in a suburban neighborhood, had a convenience store at one end (Macs, maybe?) A couple of businesses (a dentist maybe) and the Pizza Pub at the other.
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u/OldDiamondJim Born and Raised 1d ago
Mac’s (now Circle K) was the same end of the plaza as the Pizza Pub. The end with the dentist was a BiWay or similar store.
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u/OldDiamondJim Born and Raised 1d ago
Unfortunately, the Pizza Pub closed many years ago.
O’Hara’s Irish Pub has been there since late 2013. It was a donut place at one time too. I can’t remember if that was before or after the Pizza Pub.
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u/Pedrolami 1d ago
This could well be the place. Sadly it is all pretty vague and even more so due to the nature of their products 🤪
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u/OldDiamondJim Born and Raised 1d ago
Ha!
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u/OldDiamondJim Born and Raised 1d ago
Do you recall if it was downtown or more of a residential neighbourhood?
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u/Aries8709 1d ago
They're going out of business. My husband and daughter tried going there for lunch a few days ago and they have nothing left to serve. They were told by the waitress that the place is shutting down
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u/Narrow-Routine-1610 1d ago
Roberto’s Pizza downtown? Amazing place before he sold his business. It was on the corner of Dunlop/Mulcaster.
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u/s0ck1t 1d ago
Yup, The Pizza Pub was in the Leacock plaza. In recent years it was called O'Hara's, as others mentioned. I grew up behind that plaza and basically lived there as a child through the early nineties when my dad and all his buddies hung out there. I still have my Dad's baseball jersey from when they had a team!
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u/NoTtHaTgUy6869 1d ago
There so good they deliver before you order!…… there was a poster on the wall behind the pick up counter
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u/Klementz_ 1d ago
Sounds like you are talking about a place in the east end on Grove Street at Johnson, which is still a pub (now Wickies).
I am pretty sure the pub in the Leacock Plaza was called "The Pub" before it became O'Hara's Public House.
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u/boymonkey0412 1d ago
Wickies was Roosters as ODJ says but the bar in the Leacock Plaza was definitely the Pizza Pub in its first iteration. I lived around the corner for years.
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u/Klementz_ 22h ago
Too bad who ever downvoted you didn't bother to give a reason. Anyway, my memory could definitely be faulty on the Leacock plaza pub.
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u/boymonkey0412 22h ago
It may have been simply called “The Pub” at some point but it started as the “Pizza Pub”. It sounds like O’Hara’s is shutting down,too bad they’re great people.
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u/Atticusxj 1d ago
Barnstormers?
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u/RumManDan 1d ago
Not 30 years ago
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u/Atticusxj 1d ago
Ya i was just hoping op was off on the timeline.
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u/Pedrolami 1d ago
Sadly not, I am that old…. Just been looking at this place you mentioned on Google Maps history and it isn’t it, but thanks you your suggestion.
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