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Many of the city’s best artist-run galleries are here in this gorgeous old warehouse. Exhibit openings are often held Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons.

Home to basketball’s Raptors and hockey’s Maple Leafs, the arena is in the old Toronto Postal Delivery Building. Carvings on the façade depict the history of communications.

An upscale shopping strip of high-end fashion and home-decor stores (see Bloor Street).

For muscle boys and stylish guys, the flagship store of this Toronto-based apparel line offers formfitting under- and outerwear for clubbing and cruising. Though the store’s video imagery of superb models is intimidating, the staff isn’t.

This groundbreaking theater company, established in 1979, is the city’s oldest and largest venue for queer-culture productions. Renowned for innovative, edgy works, productions often push the boundaries of artistic convention and sometimes even propriety – but that’s precisely the point. Special events include Hysteria, a multidisciplinary festival celebrating women (bra art is just one highlight).

Designed to the hilt with a long martini bar and featuring spinning DJs for after-dinner dancing on the weekends, this stylish restaurant draws gays and straights alike. The intimate dining area is separated from the bar by moving panels. The food is great too, especially the moules frites .

The star of Toronto’s early skyscrapers, this massive 34-story Romanesque structure housing the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was the tallest building in Canada when completed in 1931. Today it matches aesthetically, if not in height, its towering neighbors.

This gallery showcases innovative Canadian postwar design (see Design Exchange).