C'est What is the cellar craft-beer institution under Front Street: Toronto's original craft beer and wine restaurant, open since 1988, pouring 42 brews on tap (cask ales included) under brick and beam by the St. Lawrence Market. It's a sit-down pint-and-a-band kind of place, not a nightclub, and it's been doing it longer than most rooms in this city have existed.
The sceneYou head down off Front Street into a low, warm, brick-and-beam room that feels like a proper old-Toronto cellar, because it is one. C'est What helped invent the craft-beer scene here back in 1988, long before every corner had a taproom, and it still leans on the thing it does best: a genuinely deep tap list, including cask-conditioned ales you won't find pouring many other places, plus whisky and an all-Ontario VQA wine list.
It's a slow-pint, settle-in spot. There's pub food to go with the beer, a quiet weekday after-work crowd, and a lower room that's long doubled as a small live-music and events space. Come to actually taste something and talk, not to dance, and you'll get exactly what it's good at.
Quick factsIt's tucked below street level at 67 Front St E (M5E 1B5), on the St. Lawrence Market block in Old Toronto, a short walk from Union Station and the King streetcar.
A heritage brick-and-beam cellar broken into cozy nooks and long communal tables. It's warm and low-lit rather than loud and bright, with a separate lower room that hosts live music and events.
The point of the place: 42 craft brews on tap, with cask-conditioned ales that are genuinely rare to find pouring elsewhere, plus a whisky selection and an all-Ontario VQA wine list. Pub food rounds it out. As of spring 2026 they've also opened a second nearby location.
Beer people, after-work tables from the financial core, market-day wanderers, and a steady older-leaning regular crowd that's been coming for years. It's a hang, not a scene.
Forty-two taps and a cask list under brick and beam. Pull up a stool.
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