The LR is one of Toronto’s best-kept secrets. Let’s keep it that way. So we ain’t giving the address. We have been frequenting the place now for a little over a year and each time there is a good time. The place is a queer positive, multicultural, multi-racial restaurant and cocktail lounge that has attitude to burn, but not the kind of attitude that makes you feel unwelcome! The place is hip because it is cool and relaxed.
The décor of the LR is one of the finest of any multipurpose restaurant-lounge in the city. A beautiful bar runs the length of the room; with ceilings that spew red lights and walls with embed fireplaces. The bar staff is excellent and their cocktail making is a dream. Think of the most obscure cocktail and they can make it. Champaign and sparkling wines by the glass make for a bubbly night out.
The LR clientele is an interesting mix of hipsters, middle-age open-minded folks who after 11pm dance up a storm as the restaurant transforms itself into a lounge of fun, friends and bacchanalia.
Most Saturday nights the LR has a neo-burlesque show. Tiger Lilies perform for an adoring audience of on-lookers who squeal, stare and swoon as the women and one man perform on both the bar and the floor and most impressively on the hula-hoop from the roof.
Over the last year the LR has become the place we take special friends, out of towners and where Abdi and I most often hang out with our friends Sheldon and Scott. Most recently we celebrated Abdi's birthday with Kasia and Fred at the LR.
Go check it out, but don’t take too many people. We want it to remain Toronto’s best-kept secret… a public secret if you dare.
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