The best elevated bar view in the city — the Broadview Hotel's 8th-floor rooftop bar provides 360-degree views including one of the finest angles on the CN Tower available from any accessible point in the city. East, West, North, South — the rooftop sees everything, and the heritage building itself is half the experience.
Neighbourhood: East End · Address: 106 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON · Hours: Mon–Fri 4pm–11pm | Sat–Sun 11am–11pm
Why Visit
The Broadview Hotel’s rooftop gives you sweeping city panoramas with an east-end perspective that few venues offer. It’s the rare Toronto bar where the CN Tower isn’t the only skyline showstopper.
What Makes It Unique
Most Toronto rooftop patios are clustered downtown and face west, so the Broadview stands out by giving you a full-circle view from the east. The restored 1891 building adds serious atmosphere—you’re sipping cocktails where a strip club once operated, and you can still see architectural details from its many former lives.
If you want a Toronto rooftop that actually earns the hype, go to the Broadview Hotel. A lot of places in the city talk a big game about “views,” then give you one decent angle between condo towers. This one is the real thing. From the 8th floor, you get a full sweep in every direction: downtown to the west, the east end stretching out around you, the Don Valley cutting north, and the lake to the south. And yes, the CN Tower view is that good. Honestly, it’s one of the best public angles on it anywhere in the city. From here, the tower sits out in the skyline exactly where you want it, framed by the downtown core without feeling blocked or cramped.
Part of what makes the place work is the building itself. The Broadview Hotel isn’t just a rooftop slapped on top of a new condo podium. It’s a restored heritage building with real presence, and that changes the whole mood before you even get upstairs. You walk in off Broadview, pass through the old bones of the place, then head up and suddenly the city opens right up around you. Half the appeal is that contrast: historic structure below, huge open sky above.
What actually happens there is pretty straightforward. People come for drinks, they immediately drift toward the railing, and within five minutes they’re pointing out landmarks in every direction. If you’re visiting for the first time, do a full lap as soon as you arrive. Don’t just sit down facing one side and call it a night. The west view gets most of the attention for obvious reasons, especially near sunset when the light starts hitting the skyline and the CN Tower turns into the focal point of the whole room. But the other sides matter too. Looking east and north gives you a different Toronto, less postcard, more actual city. It’s worth seeing all of it.
It’s especially good for date night because the setting does a lot of the work for you. You’ve got the skyline, a bit of wind, changing light, streetcars rattling below, and enough movement around the room that it feels lively without being chaotic. It’s also great if you’re into photography. Bring your phone or camera, but try to get there before golden hour and stay through dusk if you can. The skyline shifts completely over the course of an hour.
The drinks aren’t cheap, and no one’s pretending otherwise. But this is one of the few bars in Toronto where the prices feel justified, because you’re paying for a view that’s genuinely hard to top. My advice: reserve a table if you’re going on a summer evening, because it fills up fast and walk-ins can end up waiting or stuck with a less ideal spot. If you can, aim for sunset, order something simple, and make the west-facing view your first stop. Address is 106 Broadview Ave, and yes, it’s worth crossing the city for.