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Cove Thirtyone / Dance Club

31 Mercer St 416.979.0131 Website
Cove Thirtyone

Cove Thirtyone gets me thinking of The Little Mermaid - or at least a song that you're bound to get stuck in your head. "Under the sea, darling it's better, down...


Product Nightclub / Dance Club

364 Richmond St 416.351.1100 Website
Product Nightclub

Product Nightclub is a new addition to the Entertainment District. Owned by Charles Khabouth, the entrepreneur behind the Guvernment, Koolhaus, La Societe, and Weslodge (amongst others), simply having his name...


Montauk / Bar

765 Dundas St W 647.352.4810 Website
Montauk

Montauk opened this week near the slowly blossoming corner of Dundas and Bathurst. Joining illustrious neighbours Bent, Porchetta & Co., L'Ouvrier, and Campagnolo, Dustin Keating's new hangout aims to bring...


The Everleigh / Dance Club

580 King St. West 416.368.0014 Website
The Everleigh

The Everleigh is a brand new club on King West just east of Portland. The Everleigh's Facebook page notes that the Everleigh is a fresh take on Canadian nightlife interpreted...



Media Bar / Dance Club

77 Peter St. 416.260.6111 Website
Media Bar

Media Bar has recently opened in the Club District. As someone who loves both lowbrow media (reading blind items on CDAN) and highbrow media (I follow Ken Jennings on Twitter),...


Northwood / Bar

815 Bloor St W 416.846.8324 Website
Northwood

Northwood recently opened in the grey zone of Bloor between Koreatown and Ossington, filling a void for residents looking to imbibe locally. Owners Richard Pope and Ang Reynolds have lived...


College Street Bar / Bar

574 College Street 416.533.2417 Website
College Street Bar

College Street Bar, though it's difficult to decipher from the weird and abstract name, is a bar on College Street. Located in the midst of Little Italy, College Street Bar...


The Underground Garage / Bar

365 King St. West 647.330.6635 Website
The Underground Garage

The Underground Garage is a self-described "urban saloon" located in the Club District. I recently visited the Underground Garage on one wintery Thursday evening. I was directed up to the...



Hitch / Bar

1216 Queen St. East Website
Hitch

Hitch is now open near Queen and Leslie. I visited the bar on a quiet Monday evening. Because the bar is so new, I couldn't find any information about it...


2Cats Cocktail Lounge / Lounge

569 King St. West 416.823.1065 Website
2Cats Cocktail Lounge

2Cats is a cocktail lounge located on King West, and equidistance between For Your Eyes Only and The One that Got Away World Famous Fish House, resulting in a Bermuda...


Grace O'Malley's / Pub

14 Duncan Street 416.596.1444 Website
Grace O'Malley's

Grace O'Malley's (or Gracie's, as the locals call it) is located on Duncan Street, a stone's throw from Adelaide and John streets. Gracie's is a chain with three different locations,...


Archive Wine Bar / Bar

909 Dundas St. W. 647.748.0909 Website
Archive Wine Bar

Archive Wine Bar is the second establishment of its type to land on Dundas West in the past year, following a relative (city-wide) drought for wine-lovers who are more interested...



Bar 244 / Dance Club

244 Adelaide St. West 416.599.2442 Website
Bar 244

Bar 244 is a two-level bar in the Club District. The upper level is designed to be more casual where the lower level is a hotbed of dancing, body heat...


Pharmacy / Bar

1318 King W
Pharmacy

Pharmacy is a cozy little bar at the southwestern edge of Parkdale. Once a methadone clinic and pharmacy, it's now a quirky and eclectic bar stocked with buffalo heads,...


Aria Entertainment Complex / Dance Club

108 Peter St. 647.228.2434 Website
Aria Entertainment Complex

The Aria Entertainment Complex had been spamming me to death with Facebook ads for their new club, and having viewed their over-the-top promotional video which resembles a high-end diamond or...


Cabin Five / Dance Club

225 Richmond St. West 416.979.3000 Website
Cabin Five

Cabin Five bills itself as a "no-nonsense party bar that puts a premium on fun rather than worrying about velvet ropes". It's a lodge-themed club in the Club District that's...



Moskito / Dance Club

423 College St. 416.862.9690 Website
Moskito

Moskito is the buzzing new home to Toronto's sticky nightlife family, although the building that houses it has seen a fair bit of history since the summer. Just a few months...


Church on Church / Dance Club

505 Church St. 416.450.4329 Website
Church on Church

Church on Church is a bar located in the Village, filling the space where George's Play was previously situated. The concept of a church-themed gay bar is a unique, inspired...


May / Bar

876 Dundas St. West
May

May could be the answer to the rampant gentrification that's been hitting Toronto's urban western corridor between Bathurst and Ossington. While revitalizing a former Vietnamese underworld karaoke bar (formerly Café...


Troika Vodka Boutique / Bar

95 King St. East 416.361.0404 Website
Troika Vodka Boutique

Troika Vodka Boutique is a lounge inspired by Russian elegance, located on the cusp of the Financial District. Prior to my visit, I did what any red-blooded Canadian who loves...



Wallflower / Bar

1665 Dundas St. W. Website
Wallflower

Wallflower opened up just over 2 weeks ago on Dundas West, and is announced on a Saturday night by a street-side sandwich board, and a large front window coated in...


Nikai / Bar

190 University Avenue 647.253.8000 Website
Nikai

Nikai, despite being just up the stairs from the famed Momofuku, deserves to be known as more than a prequel to an amazing dinner. In terms of appetite-piquing cocktails and...


Nyood Bar / Dance Club

1096 Queen St. W. 416.466.1888 Website
Nyood Bar

Nyood Bar is located above (predictably enough) Nyood Restaurant, and borrows some of the same sharply-dressed, posh-esque ambiance. Quick note about my experience with the Nyood brand thus far: years...


Uniun Nightclub / Dance Club

473 Adelaide Street West 416.603.9300 Website
Uniun Nightclub

Uniun Nightclub is almost self-consciously a nightclub. Brought to you by "nightlife king" (and you know he must be growing weary of that title) Charles Khabouth and Ink Entertainment, it...



Mr. Pong's Bar / Bar

1576 Dundas St. W. 647.748.6627 Website
Mr. Pong's Bar

Mr. Pong's Bar might be your next favorite hang-out. A bit difficult to find in Little Portugal, and just a few days old, its windows are still coated in non-descript...


The Bar With No Name / Bar

1561 Bloor St. West
The Bar With No Name

The Bar With No Name is not the kind of place you go to for a signature cocktail, nor is it the kind of joint known for its ambiance and...


Bassline Bar / Bar

865 Bloor St. West 416.732.7513 Website
Bassline Bar

Bassline Bar opened its doors about 2 months ago, on a stretch of Bloor just east of Ossington that even its owner admits has seen some significant changes. "Now, women...


Play / Lounge

1032 Queen St W 416.889.8794
Play

Play on Queen is the first level of the infamous Wicked. (Second floor is for members only.) If Wicked is Lust in Dante's inferno, Play is perfect as its predecessor,...



Hawaii Bar / Bar

989 Dovercourt Road Website
Hawaii Bar

Hawaii Bar isn't exactly the flower-strewn, multicoloured drink haven I imagined. The tiki theme is apparent only through the potted plants above the bar, the ocean-blue walls, and a lone...


Stones Place / Bar

1255 Queen Street West 416.536.4242 Website
Stones Place

Stones Place proves that there's no such thing as aging gracefully: not when it comes to hard-living rock stars, not when it comes to their women, and certainly not when...


The Lot / Comedy Club

100A Ossington Avenue 416.915.6747 Website
The Lot

The Lot, Toronto's newest venue for stand-up comedy in the cabaret room of the Lower Ossington Theatre, opened its doors to a sell-out crowd on August 25th. Ryan Belleville, whose...


Linsmore Tavern / Bar

1298 Danforth Avenue 416.466.5130
Linsmore Tavern

Linsmore Tavern has a reputation that precedes it. Much as I would with a blind date, I do a quick Google search prior to heading over. There's a Chowhound post:...



Handlebar / Bar

159 Augusta Avenue 647.748.7433 Website
Handlebar

Handlebar, courtesy of Rachel Conduit (of the east-end's Avro), embodies the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." If you're a dedicated fan of the Avro, then there's not...


Get Well / Bar

1181 Dundas St. W. 647.351.2337 Website
Get Well

Get Well is a strange name, particularly when you start to wonder what they're claiming to cure. One can hardly call its neighbourhood, Dundas West, lacking. It's a smorgasbord of...


1812 Bar in the Thompson Hotel / Lounge

550 Wellington Street W 416.601.3586 Website
1812 Bar in the Thompson Hotel

1812 Bar in the Thompson Hotel is presumably so named for its proximity to Victoria Memorial Square, a King West cemetery turned park in which many of that war's casualties...


Souz Dal / Bar

612 College St. 416.537.8755 Website
Souz Dal

Souz Dal's new location has been open for about a month, and is located just a few doors down from its old haunt in Little Italy. The move was prompted...



Saviari / Lounge

926 King St. West 647.349.8077 Website
Saviari

Saviari is located in an odd area--very near to the Parkdale Arms, across from a Shopper's Drug Mart, and a long stone's throw from the club stretch of King West....


Fiction Club / Dance Club

180 Pearl Street 647.352.5505
Fiction Club

Fiction Club (formerly Park Lane) is sandwiched between Grace O'Malley's and Tequila Jack's. The three lines of people that snake from those respective venues are indistinguishable from one another, and...


3030 Dundas West / Bar

3030 Dundas St. West Website
3030 Dundas West

3030 Dundas Street West is, incidentally, both the address and name of this new Junction bar. The lack of concrete signage isn't laziness, but could rather be interpreted as a...


Lula Lounge / Live Music

1585 Dundas Street West 416.588.0307 Website
Lula Lounge

Lula Lounge is by no means new. In fact, it's offered a bright marquee along Dundas West for over ten years, and after the intermittent, and expected, struggles associated with...



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  • Product Nightclub I love the dancers they are so entertaining! They always make me feel like its ok to dance when no one else is!! I agree with Monika - they are...
  • Sex Laser I have actually been there and I loved that place.
  • The Music Gallery Instead you possibly can opt for naturopathy that has absolutely no side effects just about all. The first bottle of champange spa was Boudreaux, Les Sources delaware Caudalie.
  • Sex Laser I can see myself going to this bar BECAUSE it's called Sex Lazer. Best name for a bar I've ever heard.
  • The Brunswick House I don't usually give negative reviews, and I hardly ever review at all, but the Brunny's WILL STEAL your shit from coat check...sometimes they will outright steal your coat if...
  • Product Nightclub They're called go go dancers. They're supposed to get people...dancing. But I usually find myself staring at them wide-eyed and wondering why I can't shake my thing like that. Oh...
  • Cove Thirtyone I had a lifetime pass to Club 107 ! Man, that place was great on a Friday night. $2 beers all night long.
  • Montauk This place is AMAZING! It has the potential to be as packed as 416 snackbar with its cool vibe, affordable prices and extremely warm staff. Ask Dustin to make you...
  • Product Nightclub Went here on a Friday a couple weeks back. This place is awesome! Great review. Nice to have somehwere to go that doesnt feel like a big box club.
  • Product Nightclub Probably lots of good looking female patrons because possibly they are part of a promotions company paid to be there?
  • Product Nightclub place sucks hard
  • The Everleigh Great piece as always, Martha. But you missed the fact that this was the Century Room... probably worth nothing, given how long that place was successfully in operation (and...
  • This is London Thanks very nice blog!
  • Product Nightclub Martha has definitely become my favourite reviewer on here, walking the perfect line between witty and biting while actually providing a light, informative review. Side note, aren't those mannequins the ones...
  • Product Nightclub I have been twice to this club.... Once Friday and then on a Saturday place is always dead never a packed night. I have gone on Saturdays a lot when...
  • Product Nightclub Signature Drink:Bud Light Platinum LOL!
  • Product Nightclub They are just filler. Smoke and mirrors to avert your attention from the fact you've wasted another night and countless dollars at a club. Its why strip clubs have TVs. So...
  • Product Nightclub Kudos and Adam- it wasn't as bad as the pictures make it seem- but seriously, what's with the trend of having dancers at clubs? Is it supposed to make us...
  • Product Nightclub I thoroughly enjoyed this review
  • Product Nightclub LOL, very cheeky. Can't wait to not go this weekend!
  • Product Nightclub Im guessing this, like every club, sucks. But i will give you an A for your review. Pretty funny.
  • 3 Speed The atmosphere is nice and laid back but the tables on the patio are so close together that it's pure hell for non-smokers. Not fun when people are douchebags about...
  • The Everleigh Not to mention there 20 other club owners besides those two.
  • Sneaky Dee's I have eaten there consistently for 15 years. Good food, reasonable price and I never had a problem with the service (OK, it can be a little slow, sometimes,...
  • Montauk @ Tom -- Montauk's been bumping for over a week now for its "soft opening phase". Stopped in twice and it's had a good crowd of people already. Check it...
  • Montauk Sweet light fixtures.
  • Montauk How was "WHO GOES THERE" filled out when the bar hasn't even officially opened yet?
  • Montauk Place indeed looks relaxed and inviting. Casual but refined enough for a swanky cocktail. DELIGHTFUL! I'm there.
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