Located on the Corner of Gladstone and Cataraqui, is one of the few neighbourhood bars in this city. For a city the size of Windsor, there are aren’t more than a handful of bars off the major roads and in the neighbourhoods.
This bar was known for a long time as Jimmy’s Back Street Tavern, and made one of the best burgers in the city. I haven’t been there since I moved out of the neighbourhood back in 1999, so I can’t vouch for the burgers anymore (if they still even serve them).
Architecturally it’s your standard two story brick building, probably built around 1915-1920. It features some black tiles on the lower level around the door. Likely a late 1930’s early 1940’s facelift.
Back in 1937, it was home to the Hotel Verdi. Maybe it was them who added those black tiles. I would have loved to have seen it before the brick was painted.