The Ranch 2.0 Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Barrie

After my experience this past weekend, I would strongly encourage people to completely avoid this place at all costs. The bouncers are WAY too rough, and were clearly putting on a show to make themselves look tough and powerful. While standing in line about to enter, four bouncers were manhandling (not “escorting”) an incredibly intoxicated woman out of the bar. Following that, the same four bouncers aggressively dragged a friend of mine out of the line (after paying the cover, I might add) for being “too intoxicated to enter”. They took the cover charge for six of us, THEN deemed one of us unfit to enter…absolute scam! Then to make matters worse, they didn’t just kick my friend out, they threw him up against the entry door, one of the bouncers smushed their hand into his face, and they all just held him there while he stood still, not fighting or doing anything. Trying to get him out of there as they wouldn’t let him go, my other girlfriend was then promptly thrown to the ground after approaching them. The part I take the most issue with, however, is the way they handled the stranger I first saw thrown out. She was so drunk she couldn’t speak, and she was sobbing uncontrollably. I tried assisting her, but she was slurring her words so badly I couldn’t understand her. I asked the one bouncer who was standing guard at the door to please call her a cab or get her friends out to help her. He refused and said she had to call a cab herself…when she can’t even speak. This bar either allowed this girl to enter while already that intoxicated (which is one of their rules they so prominently display at the entrance), or more likely, severely over served her and then threw her out for being too drunk (by their hand). They’ll take your money and ply you with liquor until you’re just too much of a liability to be worth the...

The West has reached it's "Kali Yuga", and the evidence is clear for anyone to ascertain. Widening inequality, political apathy, mainstream media propaganda, mental illness/addiction on the rise, accelerating degradation of the natural world, transitory and unfulfilling relationships that never go beyond the primal, physical realm...what is a person to do? Where do you go when the world's elite industrialists successfully eradicate any real sense of purpose and morality from life and supplant it with mindless consumerism, hedonism, and transitory carnal pleasure? You go to the Ranch. Whether you are an aspiring alpha-male looking to get lucky with someone who has chemically reduced their standards through a combination of White Claw and vodka cran, or if you are a lady looking to mask the crippling meaninglessness in your life and have your self-worth briefly affirmed by someone who cares solely about your physicality, this is the place for you. Don't think about seriously bettering yourself, making financial progress, raising a family, finding an alternative to the desolate hellscape that is modern North American existence (lets be honest, you probably don't have the mental fortitude to do any of these things well). Instead, spend obscene amounts of money inebriating yourself and trying to impress people you don't know with things you don't need. That is the way. Yee...

I still remember 7 years ago when I lost my friends here and my friend had my coat check ticket with her because it was the middle of winter. I went to wait in the line at coat check because my friend wasn't answering my texts and explained to the girl working what happened. She said she can't help me and I told her that I would wait up there until my friend got there so I could find her. She told me I couldn't, so I stepped further over to the side and said okay im waiting here. I was afraid I'd end up alone with no way home and no coat. She told me I can't stand there either and I asked why because I wasn't in anyone's way and she said she would call security. Security then escorted me out of the bar into the freezing cold alone with no coat, all by myself. I was 20 years old at the time. I was shaking and crying and incredibly vulnerable all alone in downtown barrie. Thankfully my friend came out with my coat 10-15 minutes later. I was horrified as I wasn't heavily intoxicated or causing any trouble (besides saying I was going to stand where I was and wait) so I emailed the owner when I got home. Absolutely no response. I never went back, and when I think about the human cruelty the showed me, especially now that I have my own daughter and I'm disgusted. I worked at a bar myself at the time and we would have never done...