RIVERSIDE's REAL JERK
is CLOSING DOWN

Photo by Redroom Studios from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Many people will miss the Real Jerk. It is a reminder of the old days when Leslieville/Queen East were gritty. I personally think the building itself was hideous and irrelevant to the architecture in the neighborhood. The food was mediocre at best. The iconic…hideous uh hum!! sunburst mural painted on the restaurant’s west wall was added in 1991 by an Australian woman, a fan of theirs who painted it for the cost of materials alone. Yeah, thanks for that.

Now if only we could clean up the other 3 corners (Jilly’s, Dangerous Dan’s and StarBanks).

For those of you that love architecture…check out the building that was torn down in the early 1900’s to accommodate the newer architecture of the Real Jerk building. What a shame……