Toronto has a bustling and thriving nightlife. One can find numerous bars, pubs, discotheques, and nightclubs in the city catering to a variety of tastes. However, not all these watering holes are worth the visit. While some bars are worth spending every ounce on, others are just not worth it.
So if you've decided to hit the ground running and go bar hopping this weekend, we've rounded up some of the best bars in Toronto that are surely worth the visit.
1. Barcode Saturdays
Barcode Saturdays is a luxurious bar and nightclub situated at the heart of Toronto NEST. The club offers a boutique clubbing experience with a royal ambiance and amazing features. Groove to RB, Reggae, Trap, and Latin music hits every Saturday night by joining the guestlist or reserving your own bottle booth. The luxurious bar has an extensive range of premium liquors and is the number one choice for celebrities every weekend.
2. Paris Paris
Packed from noon until midnight, Paris Paris is a wine bar with awesome food, decor, with a refreshing ambiance that inebriates everyone who visits the bar.
3. Paradise Grapevine
Paradise Grapevine is a wine and beer shop that operates until 2 am. It has an extensive range of liquors and snacks and accepts walk-in entries.
4. Sweaty Betty
Sweaty Betty is a dive bar at Ossington Avenue offering amazing cocktails, mismatched furniture and a heated patio.
5. Farside
Farside has a comfortable, living-room style space and a bar with extensive options of cocktails, domestic beers, craft sours, and ciders.
6. Bar Poet
Bar Poet is a pizzeria cum beer, wine, and cocktail bar at Queen West which allows you to order online as well as make reservations.
7. Communist's Daughter
Communist's Daughter is a popular bar in Dundas with an intimate setting with its own jukebox.
8. The Dive Shop
The Dive Shop is a bar with live music, daily drink specials, and a private patio.
9. Storm Crow Manor
Storm Crow Manor is a geeky bar in Toronto complete with theme rooms, catacombs, secret doors, and indoor patio dining. The bar also sells its merchandise along with take-away orders.
10. The Shameful Tiki Room
The Shameful Tiki Room is a vintage bar in Toronto with its unique offerings of exotic drinks and mouth watering dishes.
11. Mahjong Bar
Another bar located on Dundas Street, the Mahjong Bar is a drinking and dining hideaway with a huge space of 2000 sq. ft.
12. Bar Raval
A well-known establishment on College Street, Bar Raval is a unique bar with no seating or reservations. The Barcelona-inspired pintxo bar has a comprehensive range of drinks available.
13. Cocktail Bar
A classic and contemporary bar in Dundas Street, the Cocktail Bar has a riveting vibe along with addictive wines, beers, and cocktails and bar snacks.
14. Birreria Volo
Birreria Volo is a classic tavern-style watering hole with beer taps, wines and ciders, a brewery, and Italian and Spanish snacks.
15. Bar Alo
Bar Alo is a regal bar with an à la carte menu that consists of everything from seafood to vegetable sides and desserts. It also houses fine wines and classic cocktails.
16. Mother Cocktail Bar
A purely cocktail bar, this establishment sources 100% natural ingredients to create unique, fermented cocktails to guests.
17. The Cloak Bar
With craft cocktails and elevated bar snacks, the Cloak Bar is a dimly-lit haven for hitting the weekend nights running.
18. Cry Baby Gallery
The Cry Baby Gallery is a cocktail bar meets art gallery at Dundas West. The street art and mixology concept has found a special place in the hearts of Torontonians.
19. BarChef
BarChef is much more than a bar. It offers an immersive cocktail experience along with mixology workshops and cocktail catering.
20. Clockwork
Visit Clockwork champagnes and cocktails and experience a blend of the big-city buzz in an intimate space. It's a swanky establishment with an extensive bar and food menu.
