LCBO – King and Spadina

Wide variety of wines and beverage, can’t stop gazing those precious bottles.
The price is a bit expensive but all worth trying and tasting.
The place though spacious yet crowded, the busiest place by far I’ve discovered when talking about authentic wines. Great experience!

I came to LCBO about 4 times during my visit to Toronto, I should of signed up for air miles. This location has it all, no matter what you’re into, you’re bound to turn into an alcoholic.
The Cider Game
If you know me, you know my love for Cider extends past normality. LCBO respects this like no other store ever has. From the essentials like Strongbow British Dry, which disappeared years ago from the U.S., to local made ciders like Bricksworks, they’ve got it.
The Rest Of The Game
Let’s be real, I was cider happy but just off of the aisles I went through I saw tequila’s, wines, vodkas and beers to get you to where you want to be, Their customer service was exceptional every time. I never got carded, thanks for saving me 8 seconds a visit. LCBO did not have a deep array of the things that BevMo can come through with like glassware and sodas, but to me it made no difference.
LCBO’s are like the only place to get alcohol around here aside from restaurants and bars but you won’t mind it because they offer you so much. Skim through the American reviews, we all love it!

the absolute best location in the downtown core, a massive selection of beer, wine, and spirits from all over the world. this location has to be one of the cleaner lcbo’s i’ve been in as well. come around christmas time, because i know that this location has alot of gift sets that other locations just don’t seem to have/​stock enough of.
there is no parking directly at this location.

This has to be the most busiest location of LCBO you can possibility find in town! There’s always people walking in and out grabbing booze. The size of this store is a bit bigger compared to other LCBO locations around town and they have a fuller availability compared to other locations.
Everything is so organized where you can find what you want in seconds which saves you a lot of time, you can definitely use that time to wait in line! They have sections divided from rum, whiskey, wines from different countries, beer, cocktails, vintages, the list goes on.
If you appear to drop by to pick up alcohol during the holiday season, they have many nice gift packs which you can buy, where the alcohol comes with a set of shot glasses, or a flask or even the packaging of the alcohol is very festive for gift giving. Besides that, most larger alcohol or wine brands will come with a little bottle sampler of a different kind of alcohol.
They usually have most of their cashiers open just to speed up the service so you can get out of there ASAP. Just remember if you look young or is below age 35, they most likely will check your ID, better to have it out and ready to save yourself some time!

These places, called LCBO, just blow away every other stop just off major highways. Drive into Toronto, pull over and park on King St. and walk into a paradise of local craft beer, Ontario wine, and lots and lots of booze, even some Canadian Rye. This is paradise people!

This location is my favourite downtown LCBO because of the spacious size and the ample selection of alcohol available, plus they have a very decent Vintages section which saves me a trip venturing to the Summerhill or Queens Quay location.
Being downtown at King and Spadina, this is a popular, but also quite the busy LCBO location. Therefore, I tend to shop on Saturday mornings which is probably ideal since not many people in the store and no lineups.
Staff are friendly, fast and efficient which is ideal for being such a busy LCBO. The lineups after work on any given weeknights especially on Thursdays and Fridays can definitely be long and intimidating, but the lines do move fairly quickly, so kudos to the staff for moving the lines along so everyone can enjoy their favourite libations quicker.
Cheers!

This location is a pitstop for all the condo dwellers on King West and Cityplace. Have you seen the lines on a Friday or Saturday night? Good thing they’re open til 10pm.
I’m not much of a wine connoisseur so I can’t speak to the selection they have at this location. All I know is when we need some beers or a gift, we can usually find something suitable.
The employees have always been pretty helpful when I’ve had questions about products.

Great selection. Avoid on Fridays if possible due to the volume of people just chomping at the bit the start the weekend. Very professional service. They know how to keep the lines moving!

big selection, like a bevmo. i thought all lcbos are the same, but apparently not. i saw a really small one the other day. i dont fully understand it, but this seems like a great idea — prevent alcohol from being sold on every street corner at all hours of the day so people can’t get drunk anytime they want and do stupid shit. on top of that, a guaranteed revenue source for the government. hopefully, they use that for education or community centers. canada has got a lot of things right.

3.5.
They have a great selection of moderately priced wines and specialty spirits, but the Vintages section is really lame. Overall, it’s annoying that we are at the mercy of the LCBO to import our wines and decide what is available for sale. This location is big on certain varietals: eg: California Cabs and Waaaay too many Chiantis, but sorely lacking in any decent New World Syrah. Large section from Chile and Argentina, but the selection is quite ho hum.

I visited 3 different LCBO stores while in Toronto over the holidays. Probably because they are the only alcohol retail store! That was just astonishing to me, coming from the states where there are competing liquor stores all over the place.
This LCBO was by far the largest and had the best beer selection. My relatives that live in Toronto said this is the «main» LCBO. If I lived fairly close to this in Toronto, this is where I would buy my alcohol. Not like you have much of a choice, though!
Anyway, they had a very good beer selection. I even saw some American craft beers like Founder’s Breakfast Stout and Backwoods Bastard. I picked up some Canadian stouts and porters that an employee recommended and they were pretty solid.

This LCBO is ok, on Fridays it’s full of King West douche bags raring to go (power to them though, right!?)
On Friday, April 26, 2013 I saw the store manager (or something) «Gino» ream out his employee in front of customers, for having a water bottle in her hand.
a)As a customer, I don’t care one of your employees needs to quench her thirst
b)Don’t bitch at your staff in front of customers, you pig
The beer selection is not the best, but it’s a great location. Mostly I wrote this review to complain about…
Gino.
GINO GET A GRIP
Water gives us life! Don’t let water ruin your day, man!

Always busy, yet the lines move very fast, and I can find everything I need. Good selection of wine and beer singles. The layout is great, and I love the fact that it stays open until 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights. It is not the biggest LCBO but the best in terms of selection and cashiers that keep the lines moving when its very busy.

Man oh man, this is a great place. The selection is to the max at this location, as it’s one of the bigger stores. It’s also spacious, and they always have a lot of cashiers ready to go, should a rush appear. As noted in other reviews, this location can get busy during peak times. but I never find the wait worth mentioning.
Great hours, too:
Sunday: 12:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Monday: 10:00 AM — 9:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM — 9:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM — 9:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM — 10:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM — 10:00 PM
This store has the following features:
wheelchair accessibility
product consultant
a tasting bar
**a VINTAGES corner

Je dois dire que c’est vraiment une grosse succursale. C’est ma première fois ou presque en Ontario. J’n’allais pas tinker de la boisson dans mon lit, mais je suis quand même curieux de nature, alors j’y suis rentrer. J’aime le concept, pas mal moins cher que la SAQ sur les vins pas cher. Je dois aussi dire que j’aime beaucoup leur sélection de bières, très bien! La bière locale est sympathique pour y avoir goûté dans les bars, mais je trouve bien qu’il aillent aussi un bon exposure dans les LCBO.

This LCBO is at a major intersection for Street cars, traffic getting in or going to the condo jungle or Gardiner Expressway. The result is unless you are riding on TTC forget about parking during peak hours. Location is quite good as one can make a quick purchase while waiting for the TTC street cars.
Selection is good for main stream items and decent selection of Vintage items.
Can get busy at times so be prepared for some lineups on prime booze shopping hours.
3.5 stars.

Not the biggest LCBO I’ve been to — that honour still belongs to one near Byward Market in Ottawa — but plenty huge, and a good selection. It’s also about a ten minute walk from my house, whereas Ottawa is a slightly longer trip.
They’ve got a good selection of beer, good selection of other liquor-​based beverages, and I suppose wine as well, but I’m not a wine drinker myself, so I can’t really judge them there. I can tell you that I’ve never left wanting for what I came in, uh, wanting.
Be forewarned, however — it tends to be a popular one, so expect a line. Staff is friendly and helpful.

Huge, gorgeous LCBO that I didn’t know existed until this week.
A stone’s throw west of MEC, this relatively new booze bazaar is a fantastic improvement over the typically cramped lickbos you’ll find downtown (not to mention that horrid outpost nearby in Chinatown).
Great selection of cold beers (in singles and sixers).

Hello, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE!
This LCBO is outta control! I love it!!! It’s huge and SPACIOUS (No need to jostle through the hordes to get to your bottle of choice). Even the bums outside asking for change are classier at this LCBO.
The wine selection is excellent. I’ve discovered a few nice vintages over the past couple weeks.
It’s almost TOO convenient. Now this is a reason to drink!

This really is a dynamite LCBO, they have pretty much everything (well, except my Greek wine — Atlantis, or my Peruvian Pisco, but I think they can work on that for me). In any case, you’ll be blown away not only by their selection of neat-​o gift packs around the holidays, but also their amazing selection of chilled wines and beers. Its not all just Coors and Canadian in the refrigerated section, oh no — they’ve got Tiger, Stella, Sapporo, Becks and at least a dozen others.
They even have a locked cabinet for special scotch and fancy aged boozies. Oooh, you fancy huh?!

What an amazing selection in this location, from local craft beers to Cuban rum. For this American on a work visit I could ask for nothing more. As I was browsing an employee came over and walked me through the options for local beers, somehow I realized I could get a Cuban rum here and that just made my day, getting a bottle of Havana Club.
Prices were actually pretty good, selection was amazing, staff was super friendly, my only complaint is that this place makes me jealous that the States has nothing like this to offer at home.