Cozy & Intimate
Cocktails at Clive's Classic Lounge
The Chateau Victoria's hotel bar, Canada-nominated, with rare vintage spirits and leather banquettes built for slow, low-lit evenings.
Chateau Victoria Hotel, Burdett Ave
More infoCozy & Intimate
The Chateau Victoria's hotel bar, Canada-nominated, with rare vintage spirits and leather banquettes built for slow, low-lit evenings.
Chateau Victoria Hotel, Burdett Ave
More infoClive's looks like someone found the Platonic ideal of a date bar and built it inside the Chateau Victoria on Burdett. It keeps getting nominated for Canada's best hotel bar because the bartenders treat a Negroni like a love letter and mean it, backed by a shelf of rare and vintage spirits. Split the charcuterie, settle into the leather, and note they are closed Sunday and Monday.
Skip the open seats and grab a corner two-top on the leather banquettes for the lean-in-close effect. Order something stirred and brown, then ask the bartender to pour something from the rare and vintage back bar you'd never buy a whole bottle of, and graze the charcuterie while you talk. Plan it for Tuesday through Saturday, it's dark Sundays and Mondays, and give it a good two hours before you decide whether the night keeps going.
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