Shoeless Joe's Menu With Prices In Canada

Order Supreme Cheese Fries at Shoeless Joe's from the Starters list and they are $16.00; order the same dish from Side Hustle and they are $10.00. Three loaded sides do that, and spotting it is worth more than any coupon on a menu that otherwise prices in clean whole dollars.

The overlap is easy to miss because the two sections read as different parts of the meal. Supreme Cheese Fries and Garlic Dill Pickle Fries both appear under Starters & Shareables at $16.00 and again under Side Hustle at $10.00. Buffalo Chicken Poutine is $17.00 as a starter, while plain Poutine is $10.00 as a side. The rest of Side Hustle is genuinely cheap: Fries $3.00, and Lattice Fries, Sweet Potato Fries, Seasonal Vegetables, Cilantro Lime Rice, Jasmine Rice and Mashed Potatoes at $4.00 apiece.

Every one of the 17 Sauces & Dips is $2.00, whether it is Ranch, Blue Cheese, Nashville Hot, Mango Jalapeno BBQ or Joe's Famous Buffalo Butter — the sauce you pick for your wings never changes the bill.

Whole dollars almost everywhere

126 items, and the food half of the menu has essentially no cents. Burgers & Handhelds runs $17.00 to $20.00 across 18 rows, and where a dish offers a choice the choice is free: the Maple Bacon & Cheddar Burger is $18.00 with a Canadian chuck patty or a veggie one, Joe's Tacos is $19.00 with beef and chorizo, tempura-style fish or grilled chicken, and the Buffalo Chicken Wrap is $18.00 with either chicken or cauliflower.

Entrees is where the range opens up — $19.00 for one-piece Fish & Chips or Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Tendies, $25.00 for the two-piece fish, and $36.00 for Steak Frites, the most expensive plate on the menu. Joe's Baby Back Ribs are $23.00 alone and $30.00 as a combo. All five Kids dishes fall between $9.00 and $11.00, and the five Desserts between $8.00 and $10.00.

The drinks list is really a bottle shop

Beverages is tiny and cheap: fountain pop at $1.49 a glass, four cans for $4.99, bottled Dasani $3.49. The 16-row Alcohol section is something else — it sells 750 ml bottles to take away. Jackson Triggs Chardonnay and Cabernet Merlot are $30.99, Yellow Tail Cabernet Sauvignon $40.99, Yellow Tail Sauvignon Blanc $42.99, Polar Ice Vodka and Beefeater Gin $37.99 each. Beer comes both ways: a single Coors Light or Molson Canadian at $4.49, or a six-pack at $23.99.

That mix is what produces the menu's odd numbers — 32 items under $5, only 42 under $10, an average of $14.36 and a top price of $42.99 that belongs to a bottle of wine rather than anything cooked.

Do prices vary across Canada?

Shoeless Joe's locations are franchised across Ontario and beyond, and each operator sets its own board, so a licensed sports bar in a busy urban strip will not necessarily match a highway location. The take-home alcohol list is the most volatile part, since bottle pricing is governed provincially. Nothing here includes tax. The relationships — $2.00 sauces, the $10.00 side version of a $16.00 starter — are the part worth memorising.