My Place Bar & Grill

The Maple Bacon Chicken comes to the table under melted brie, toasted walnuts, caramelized onions, and a maple bacon cream sauce — more composition than the bar-and-grill label usually promises. It is a fair introduction to My Place Bar & Grill, a Fonthill Village kitchen that runs a wide menu without letting it drift generic. Canadian comfort plates, Mediterranean-leaning shareables, and a few global detours share one board, which is how the same kitchen covers a weekday lunch, a happy-hour round, a Sunday brunch, and a sit-down dinner for a dozen across a single week.

The rest of the menu keeps that habit of being specific. The 40 Creek Burger is the pub-lane order to measure the kitchen by, stacked with double-smoked bacon, caramelized onion, aged white cheddar, crispy onion, and a 40 Creek BBQ sauce; a Chipotle version adds sliced jalapeño and smoky chipotle mayo for a hotter order. The slow-roasted AAA prime rib sandwich, on an onion baguette with horseradish Dijon and beef jus, is the order for an appetite that lands between a burger and a full dinner plate. Even the shareables hold up — a four-cheese Spinach & Artichoke Dip, and a flour-dusted Buffalo Cauliflower tossed with blue cheese.

For lighter appetites the board turns specific in another direction. The Sesame Crusted Tuna Salad arrives as medium-rare ahi over mixed greens, snap peas, sweet peppers, cashews, and crispy wontons in a sweet teriyaki; the My Place Mussels come in tomato, pancetta, herbs, and white wine; and a Pad Thai of rice noodles, grilled chicken, coconut peanut sauce, and lime gives the menu a real global lane. A Greek salad of romaine, tomato, feta, olives, and Greek vinaigrette rounds out the lighter side. A separate gluten-free menu, set up for pickup and delivery, points toward the salads, seafood, and mussels that travel well. The range here reads as a decision rather than a default.

The weekly rhythm is where regulars learn to use the place well. A daily happy hour runs three to five, aimed at shareables and a first round at the bar; the discounted appetizers are dine-in only, so the value shifts between sitting down and carrying out. Wednesdays turn takeout into a buy-one-get-one deal, with family bundles and wings the only things held back. Weekends bring a twelve-ounce Angus prime rib with Yorkshire pudding and au jus. And on Sunday the whole operation resets around a breakfast buffet, the omelette station and waffle irons running from half past eight into the early afternoon.

The layout supports that same flexibility. There is a large patio with a fireplace, a lounge tucked into a private corner, and a central bar; the fireplace stretches the patio season at both ends, and the lounge gives a larger party its own quiet end away from the main floor. Local coverage has tended to land on the warm hospitality and the breadth that lets almost any table find its plate. The setup flexes by size as much as by occasion: the function side seats groups of up to ninety — enough for a birthday, a work lunch, or a team's end-of-season dinner without rearranging the dining room.

My Place has been doing this in Fonthill since 2009, long enough that the menu's range now reads as accumulated rather than scattered — the kind of breadth a kitchen grows into by feeding the same town through birthdays, brunches, and ordinary Tuesdays. Takeout runs on its own online ordering, while the patio, lounge, and dining room hold the dine-in tables. Highway 20 runs through Pelham toward the Niagara escarpment, and for plenty of the cars that slow down in Fonthill, this is the stop they had in mind before leaving home.