10 New Venues in Toronto for Spring Meetings and Events

Buonanotte Toronto is a new outpost of the Montreal-based restaurant and lounge. The decor includes leather and hardwood furniture against a backdrop of a vintage-photo feature wall. Buonanotte has several options for private events, including a buyouts for 375-person receptions or seated dinners of as many as 170. Partial buyouts are available for smaller events.

Inside mega-club Muzik is the new Grey Goose Lounge, a 35-person space with its own distinctive design and cocktail menu that opened in March. A mixologist from the vodka brand created the cocktail list, and Muzik can provide catering.

The Miami-based Cibo Wine Bar is slated to open a King West Village location in May. The menu will feature modern and classic Italian dishes and an extensive wine list. The 8,000-square-foot space will offer private dining areas for business and social events, with room for as many as 24 guests on the main dining level. The private lower level will open late summer and seat 150 or holds 250 for receptions. Weekday buyouts may be available.

The Hospitality Suite at One King West Hotel & Residence, expected to open in May, is a two-level private event space and executive meeting room on one floor with a suite on another. The spaces can be used separately or together for events of as many as 60 guests or 30 in a boardroom configuration. The entire suite has 2,500 square feet, including the outdoor terrace.

A private event space, 2nd Floor is an open-concept 3,000-square-foot space with an industrial feel highlighted by exposed brick walls and large bright windows. It features a 36-foot bar with custom light boxes, an elevated DJ booth, and audiovisual equipment. The venue has the capacity for 160 seated or 215 standing and can be used for launches, concerts, previews, runway shows, film and photo shoots, and more. 2nd Floor offers in-house catering of local, seasonally sourced items from executive chef Jon Lovett.

The Storys Building, a raw event space, completed renovations to the third and fourth floors in early April. Each level received lighter wood-paneled flooring and new heating and cooling units. Both floors seat 150 banquet style or hold 200 for receptions. Updates to the Parlour on the first floor are scheduled for completion in May. The 93-seat space will be prohibition-themed, featuring handcrafted cocktails and menu items.

The Loose Moose, a downtown sports bar, reopened in February after an interior renovation and revamped food and drink menus. It accommodates 314 people, and when combined with sister live music bar the Antler Room located below, can fit 800. The location offers 54 varieties of draught beer that are mixed into beer cocktails. The renovation created two peninsulas at the bar and seating at large communal tables with mismatched chairs and banquettes of vintage theatre seats.

Scheduled to open by early April, Que Supper Club is a two-story venue with a private event space. The first-floor restaurant, which seats 130, will serve barbecue, kebabs, and other Portuguese-style dishes. The upper level is available for private events of as many as 200 people. Both levels will be available for buyout. Late nights on Friday and Saturday, the entire space will be converted into a dance club with standing room for 2,500.

Following a renovation, the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives offers several spaces for events. The Courthouse holds as many as 100 people with its theatre-style setup. A glass-enclosed lounge in the former Hydro Building—now an art gallery—has its own bar and provides downtown views. It has room for receptions of as many as 40 guests. The former Peel County Jail’s exercise yard is now a garden, featuring a surrounding 20-foot stone wall.