This is a LCBO head quarter building. A big retail store is located at the ground floor, and offices are upstairs. We were surprised LCBO has a big building. We walked around the retail store. It is bigger branch and have more choices than others. Not sure about the price of each one, but assume they are the same. Bc LCBO should be centralised the price, just more variety at this location. And it is neat and well organized. read more

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This particular LCBO is cavernous, competing in sheer volume with the shipyard-sized sugar container across the street. Selection is nice, with almost any Canadian whiskey or ice wine you'd like to savor on display. The wife and I also got to enjoy a complementary local wine tasting complete with meats and cheeses for the kids. All and all, this was our favorite LCBO branch with cheerful, knowledgeable staff and incomparable selection. read more

Earlier today I made my first visit to this LCBO; I'd previously walked by it many times as I live close by but until now I've never ventured inside, partially due to the fact that there are two other LCBOs even closer to where I live. I didn't realize how big it was nor how extensive their beer selection is. They have a large quantity of Canadian and International craft beers on offer, and a lot of other international beers as well. As I'm mostly a beer drinker when it comes to alcohol I didn't really pay any attention to any of the other offerings at this location, but again due to the size of the store I would assume that selections of quite a few other alcoholic beverages they have are similarly extensive. I'm going to have to get into the habit of visiting this location fairly frequently. read more

You'll find what you need at this location Staff is all knowing and can be tested successfully in their knowledge of wines and spirits! And they have parking !!! Yay read more

Hi and Good Morning to all Staff, and Management: I went by the LCBO at Sugar Warf and, I am recommending to employees one a Chinese lady who recommended that I purchase a very good product and, she was very polite and, professional yesterday (May 12th) at 2:45pm and, as was a lady cashier on Saturday when I made a purchase-I am commenting that both of these ladies were very polite and, well-mannered and, I will definitely ask this Chinese lady again for product information and, also the lady who helped process my order. I wish the new store well as it continues to provide great service and, the selection is even better now as it caters to a great customer base. Thanks Again. read more

This LCBO is a little hike from Union Station but definitely worth your while if you are in the area..or you have friends that live in the area and you need to pick up last minute booze. Tasting Bar is well set up with friendly staffs that help me with my selections. I tasted 2 Single Malt Scotch here $1.5 and $6 respectively. Beer selections here is decent. A lot of the seasonal and limited beers are in stock. Ample Parking. read more

LCBO - Beer, Wine & Spirits Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

This store has an excellent selection but I have stopped going there and prefer other locations as I find some of the staff to be beyond unpleasant. I actually witnessed one of the staff viciously bullying a customer. Not that I want someone to lose their job, but LCBO should move those who are clearly not suited for front-line customer service to other duties. read more

I don't like this 100 Queens Quay East new location The LCBO has gone overboard trying to make the store look pretty, while thinning out the selection. This is a fiasco. Clearly what should still be the best LC store in the province has lost its coolness and charm, because at the old store across the street you could find great and rare things, And the sales staff seemed literate and eager to help you find good products. This is literally LCBO headquarters because it feels like shopping in a corporate office pushing a mainstream product offering, not a passionate liquor retailer. This is unacceptable. They are bullying the public into mediocrity. read more

Hi and Good Day to all!!. I am writing a review and this pertains to all stores. The staff are polite and professional as always. The selection is great. I find the staff very approachable and always focused. I shop for products and noticed that the staff are great at product knowledge. I shop at various stores and not only the staff and management but customers are polite as well. I always leave with a great impression of the LCBO. I value the work of all employees and I might add that their attitude is great. Keep up the great work ladies and gents!!. read more

This is probably one of the biggest LCBO in GTA (maybe summerhill might be a tad bigger) thanks to being located next to the LCBO HQ I guess. They have immense variety for wines and spirits. Beer selection is OK. This is usually my go to location for a booze shopping trip. The staff is typical of LCBO i.e. it can be hit or miss. Layout is nice and they usually have free samples being given out on the weekends. I would appreciate if they added some cooking classes like the summerhill and bayview village spots but I guess you can;t have everything. We can't go into the high prices we pay for alcohol here as that's like opening a can of worms so I can't really rate the store on that but other than that top notch for downtown. They have added a permanent tasting bar instead of the island they used to have in the middle. They do have rotating selection which changes every month so its a good way to try before you buy they do charge for tastings. read more

In Ontario, you can only buy liquor and beer at an authorized store - the LCBO. This joint was close to our hotel and had free parking. Win. Liquor and beer are kind of expensive in Canada, at least compared to the US. Beer especially. If you're buying any American brew, it's about $5-$10 more for a 12 or 18 pack than it is in the US. Even Canadian beer wasn't that cheap so it seemed kind of rip off-y. Other than the prices, the selection was enormous. They really seemed to have everything and there were daily/weekly sales if you were looking for a discount. Americans, beware: in Ontario, you HAVE to buy alcohol at an LCBO. They don't sell it at grocery or drugstores so don't walk into a grocery store and think that they have a liquor section. I've made that mistake before so now I know: LCBO is the way to go. Find your nearest one using Yelp or Google and that's where you buy liquor outside of a restaurant. read more

LCBO's online service is not what you would expect from the digital era. It took 3 weeks for me to get my order come to the store - from Toronto no less read more

One of the bigger LCBO's in Toronto the Cooper Street outlet is located on the harbourfront, with easy access from the Gardiner. What really makes the particular LCBO special is the great selection and friendly staff. A great wine selection for oenophiles and a wide range of brewskis at the back including several new releases each month. Impressive vintages collection so if you're looking to impress a wine drinking friend, I'd give this location a try. As for beer, they have a good refrigerated section with imports, local craft brews and other domestics. Not too shabby. The staff are a helpful bunch though a little sparse in number-if you need a recommendation or are having trouble hunting down something just give them a wave. In short, a good LCBO to get your drink on! read more

Great selection was not too crowded and service was fast. Came a second time and the cashier was not really friendly and avoided eyes contact with me and that right after he has beem super friendly with the previous lady... it was a bit strange. rated down to 4 read more

This LCBO location was the flagship location for many many years until the old train station on Yonge was refurbished. I have many fond memories of coming here with my dad when we would try to find new and interesting beers. This was back in the dark-ages of beer in Ontario when the choices consisted of Blue, 50, or Canadian. (Yes yes there were a few other choices but everything was the nearly the same mega-brewery crap just before the micro-brewery revolution.) The store has an enormous selection of spirits and wines. I think it's still the best "Vintages" section in the city, but the Yonge location might very well be better but I find the layout of this location far far easier to navigate. Plus I'm tall and the shelving doesn't require that I stand on my head to find the good AND attractively priced boozey-goodness. Do I spend too much money here? Probably. It's the starving artist thing to do! (Commiserating with drink and friends) Do I want to come back here every day? Yes/No. I would if I had the money and if I had an additional liver on ice ready for transplant. My absolute most favourite item in this store? The $12,000 bottle of wiskey. Which clearly indicates the deposit of $0.20 for the bottle giving a total of $12,000.20. BRILLIANT! The beer selection is ok. Not great, but ok. It's better to buy it here than at the beer store because you can collect reward miles. Verdict: This is my favourite LCBO location. read more

Even though I'm still a big proponent of allowing wine and beer to be sold in grocery and corner stores and thus don't care much for the current monopoly, I'm not totally anti-LCBO. Yes we pay too much for booze here and competition would probably (hopefully?) lead to better prices and even more selection but when you go to a liquor store like the one on Queen's Quay, it's hard to argue completely against it. Their selection is quite impressive all across the board. Large selection of wine, beer, coolers, liquor and a super Vintages section? Check. Very cool tasting bar? Yup! Conveniently located just steps away from my office? Sure is. Friendly staff? Actually, yes. Ample parking? I don't drive to work but if I did, I'd appreciate this as well. So I could go on but I won't. It's an LCBO. I'm still fairly ambivalent about the concept of the Ontario's liquor stores but if you do want to put one forth as a shining example of how well the whole thing works, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this rather impressive location. read more

I made the trip in from Mississauga a few days ago to purchase a difficult to find single malt scotch. They tend to place these under lock and key and this was true that day of the Ardbeg. As luck (at least I felt that way at the time) would have it there was a specialist taking inventory, low go the ground, right beside the cabinet. I asked him if he had a key and without looking up he droned yes and then asked left or right door while still not making eye contact. He carefully removed a boxed bottle but strangely did not hand to me right away. Instead he rearranged the shelf with my wished purchase under his arm. He then relocked the unit and turned to face my outstretched hand. "No I will take this to the front counter" it was clear to me that this employee had made the judgement that a 58 year old gentleman who knew the name of an expensive single malt was in fact plotting a nefarious end to a bottle of Scotland's finest. It's employees like this, with no sales ability or couth whatsoever, that give Vintages a bad name. Luckily for us he is one of only a small handful that I have had the bad fortune to run in to. read more

Biggest LCBO in Toronto with a great craft beer selection, not as good as in Buffalo, but the best here in the big smoke. Helpful staff, otherwise you've seen one LCBO you've seen them all. Nice big parking lot. read more

I made a mistake of placing an online order. The store is out of a product I wanted so I ordered it online. 4 days in and the order is still 'In Progress'. That's $100.00 trapped until they finally get around to shipping my order. read more

The Asian manager on duty was exceptionally rude and unprofessional. After we purchased liquor, he made us feel like criminals for requesting boxes to help our move (something LCBO has done for years with no issues), even after the lovely cashier had told us we could take the two on hand and apologized that they didn't have more for us to take. We have shopped here for years, so this level of treatment was shocking, but I've had negative experiences with the same manager before, who always seems to be aggressive and rude. He should be fired. read more

This is one of my fave LCBOs in the city! Really big, huge selection, and never out of stock of ANYTHING! There's ample parking, as it's in a plaza with a ton of other shops, including a Metro, Blockbuster, Starbucks, Subway, Beauty Supply Outlet, Convenience Store, Source... and that's all I can remember. The staff is fun, the boxes are plentiful, and there's usally a busker outside for entertainment. Mostly guitar classics, and he takes requests. read more

Sadly, in Ontario, liquor stores are liquor stores, are liquor stores without much variety in product available since it's all dictated by the LCBO. At least the Vintages on Queens Quay steps apart from the usual and has become the place that I head to if I need wine, spirits, or am looking to blow a load of cash on something fancy. Like every other liquor store, the selection is pretty solid across the different alcoholic genres; wine, beer, spirits, liqueurs. It all looks familiar. What separates the Queens Quay store from the pack is the sheer size that it is. Double the floor-space of most of the other franchises, they are able to bring in more varied bottles across the different genres. The wine section is larger than that of some liquor stores I've visited elsewhere. More space means more selection from more countries. And wine drinking is pretty much all about that, seeing what other countries have to offer. If you're looking for the more top-end, some LCBOs have a 'Vintages' section that has a more pricey selection available. Here again, size does matter. The 'Vintages' section is much larger than any other store I've seen, with a special area caged off displaying all of the top end scotches and whiskeys. It makes you wonder what a $1000 bottle of whisky would taste like. And if you've wondered that, Queens Quay has you covered there as well. Their tasting centre in the centre of the store allows you the opportunity to taste a selection of premium brands before you go spending hundreds of dollars on a bottle. A fantastic service that makes me wish they'd let you spend the afternoon there. read more

I wouldnt describe our government run liquor stores as amazing or even good. If you want to have something ordered not on the lcbo you have to buy a case and with the selection currently available, so long as you are looking for something beyond the mere Smirnoff vodka glenlivet scotch, or bacardi rum this is most likely the option you will be left with. This store has been a hinderence to bars who have struggled to compete on a global scale for decades. I believe Ontario is in need of supplimental privatization. read more

The on-line service from LCBO is awful. We ordered and paid for $380 worth of wine and after 10 days we had heard nothing about the order. The only way to check it is to go to the local store and they call to see where it is. We did this but in the middle of speaking to the rep, she took a phone call from another client and helped answer his/her question. Then came back to us and told us the order is filled and someplace in there system. It might arrive by this weekend but they couldn't say for sure. AND THE STAFF WONDER WHY CONSUMERS WANT PRIVATE COMPETITION! read more

Lov this liquor store, sophisticated and interesting that you can't buy alcohol at grocery stores. The locals spotted us asap that we weren't from here. LOL read more

Liquor store in Toronto. It large with a variety of different liquors. Biggest issues I was there on a holiday weekend and they ran out of Margaritas mix which was crazy. read more

i like this location. There's lots of parking and they have a wide selection of beers and vintages. For the record, they have fruili here, which in my opinion is a plus. They also stock my newly discovered have - Jacob's Creek Moscato. I totally stocked up, with the spring/summer season around the corner. read more

Worst experience ever at an LCBO. Confrontation with staff about my selection. Crazy!

Awesome selection of everything under the sun as mentioned below. Tasted some really nice new red iwne that was just released along the lines of amarone...very tasty. Again, my theory on etc is that even if I had a million dollars, I still wouldn't pay say 5000 for a bottle of wine....how is that value determined really. Could someone really get that much value from it?? Just my 2 cents. Travel the world in beer...that's what I did! read more

This is one of the best LCBO locations I have been to. Great selection of beer, the Vintages section is huge and has everything you could ever want. There is a Guy who works in the Vintages section (darn I can't remember his name) who knows absolutely everything about wine, ask him any question and you will get so much information back its incredible. A big free parking lot is a huge bonus as well. read more

The LCBO is Ontario's answer to Pennsylvania's State Stores. A place to buy booze at retail since there aren't too many other places you can do it out here. Basically here, some wine stores and the Beer Store chain. The LCBO is all over the area but this is probably my favorite. A stand alone off the Quay between the Westin Harbour Castle hotel and a super huge Loblaws (with its' own LCBO downstairs....but I'd still shop here). This LCBO has a nice selection of wines but it's beer where they shine. All sorts of local and regional brands. Even guides from the Ontario Craft Brewers Association. And singles! You can try beers here! This is where I first tried Mill St., for example before I went to their brewpub. Lots of imports too as you would imagine with Canada's euro-centric base. Only thing that stinks is every time I come out here they're always out of the LCBO's publication, Food & Drink, which is better than some of the for pay foodie publications. Great design and photography. You should pick one up if you're over here. If you're going to be stuck with just one place to buy liquor at least let it be a good one. LCBO shines here. read more