June 10, 2009 [ Updated June 14, 2009 ]
Took a while to find (mapquest f’d me over), but well worth it. In an old renovated train station, lies possibly the best LCBO in Ontario. Not huge, though still quite spacious. Amazing selection (for an LCBO), lots of OCB stuff NOT available anywhere but T.O and the GTA (so you Toronto guys better appreciate this place!). Beer selection has almost everything the LCBO lists, in several isles, easy to navigate. Your visit will include the sounds of trains going by every 30 seconds, which is kind of cool (shakes parts of the store). Service was actually very good in my experience, the cashier used my first name after looking at my ID, which has never happened to me before. OCB stuff generally isn’t refrigerated, though this is entirely in keeping with any other LCBO anywhere so I can’t really fault them much for it. I’m rating this place in comparison to other LCBO stores.

May 7, 2009
Beautiful looking store in an elegant Toronto area and with good free store parking. Selection is less despondent than elsewhere. They put beer displays in big, bright windows. Either they hate beer or they are extremely stupid! Trains roll over this underpass building, it used to be a train station. Bottles shake and rattle as upper-crust clientéle fill their carts with 30-100 dollar Italian reds. Fuckin’ weird.

April 13, 2009
Best LCBO in Ontario which probably doesn’t say a whole lot. Located in a refurbished former train station. Decent selection of beers (and wines and spirits) as compared to most other LCBOs since lists more than other ones given its sheer size (and more apt to have higher end things generally given the location in midtown Toronto) and it always gets the seasonal releases. Obviously the retail experience for beer in Ontario leaves a lot to be desired but you should be able to find something decent here.

September 15, 2008
One of the better LCBO locations it carries a high percentage of the beers available but because its well known it also sells out of them a bit quicker than others as well. Housed in a former railway station it has a bit more atmosphere than most stores, but its still just a store. Sampling bar has a nice selection of wines and liquors, no beer. Walking distance form Rebel House and The Abbot On The Hill pubs. If you are just visiting town be sure and check out the product search at www.lcbo.com to see if there are stores close to where you’ll be while in town. Or if that fails, ask a local Ratebeerian. Service is variable as are most LCBOs

August 4, 2008
A nice LCBO one of the better ones in Toronto, 2nd only to the LCBO on Queens Quay. But seriosuly Beer seems like an afterthougth when you see the rest of the bloody store!

July 16, 2008 [ Updated September 23, 2008 ]
Un joli LCBO pour bien dire (j’ai les batiments historiques). la section de bière est comme une boutique à elle même, un peu séparé des autres produits en magasin. Beaucoup de bière ontarienne, d’articles saisonnières et de raretées. C’est le magasin à visité à Toronto.

May 21, 2008
The largest liquor store in Ontario, and I understand one of the largest in the world. Almost every beer in the LCBO system to be found. Most noted for a great single malt scotch selection, and tastings. Very pleasant ambiance and reasonable parking.

May 20, 2008
This is the flagship LCBO store in the restored North Toronto Union Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The store has a huge selection of Wines and Spirits, and in theory stocks every beer product on the LCBO list. Its normally a good place to find seasonals, and is often one of the stores where extra stock is dumped at the end of a seasonal release or when a product is de-listed. Worth the visit just for the architecture and the incredible restoration job on the station.

May 7, 2008 [ Updated May 14, 2008 ]
The new Summerhill LCBO has opened as of 2008, and at 41,000 square feet vs. the paltry 28,000 sq ft of the Queen’s Quay location, the Summerhill LCBO is now the Big Dog! Let me convince you further: Queens Quay had 4 shelves of beer. Summerhill had 7. Summerhill had the entire Neustadt line, plus Hockley, Wellington County beers and something called Honey Ice, which decorum prohibits me from describing further on a family website as the beer totally sucked ass! In short, go to this store. It is 1 block south of the Summerhill subway stop on Yonge (pronounced Yong not Yongee as I’ve been incorrectly saying all day). This place is huge, well laid out, immaculate and a real stunner.