The best whisky bars in Toronto are adult places--havens for drinkers open to letting their evening unfold in a leisurely, amber-coloured light, and a refuge from boisterous pubs awash in pints or noisy clubs packed with giddy youth fuelling their evening with syrupy sweet coolers and alcopops.
This might be why even the newest place on our list aims for a venerability that can only come easily to a hotel bar that's been serving since Bennett was prime minister and Model As were as common as Honda Civics. Even if the place was a noodle house or a nail salon a year ago, they want you to take your seat at the bar confident that the bartender knows the difference between a Bowmore and a Blanton's, and when it's permissible to drink it with water.
It's an illusion of age that hopes to get you thinking that you're a regular (even if you only heard of the place a week ago) with a friendly agenda that will see you graduating from big icy tumblers of that rye your Dad drank, to precious little snifters of rare single malt. Because frankly, you're old enough, and it's about time.
Here's the list of the best whisky bars in Toronto.
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