Bar 244

Bar 224 is a great place to go on a Friday night, the service is great and pretty fast, and the crowd is usually nice too (including the bartenders and bouncers). The bar also has a free guest list sign up, which is awesome.
Overall, the drinks are cheap and good (shots, beer, or cocktails for $ 3); and I recommend bar 224 for a night out in the city. The only con I can think of is that the washrooms are pretty small, so if it’s a busy night — it might be quite the wait.

Came here after a failed night at orchid. My friend always ends up here, so she suggested we come here for a mixed crowd and good music. I’ve never lined up for a club in my life and I was not ok when I saw the long line. Thank goodness it moved fast and we got in after 15 minutes. not before being bothered by a promoter for cake nightclub though– she kept saying «bar 244 is at capacity and you’re not going to get in. Come to cake, come to cake» and we did the polite «…lol…ok…» before ignoring her. My friend told me she’s there every time soliciting all the bar 244 customers.
Bouncers were super friendly and did not even check bags, which was a bit surprising. Cover was $ 10 and coat check was $ 3. Coat check was huge and the girl working it was super friendly, fast and organized. I was impressed by the layout of this place, it was more like an empty house with different levels/​rooms and it had a definitely abandoned house party feel. You can dance anywhere, but the main dance floor is downstairs and it’s definitely crowded. Everyone here is super grabby and the rise of sexual assault is not a joke. How many hands did I have to slap away in the span of 5 minutes? The answer is too many. Also, there’s broken glass all over the floor. Thank goodness I was wearing shoes with a thick sole because the number of times I had to rub the bottom of my shoes on the wall to get the jagged glass out of shoe was WAY too high. Never had another club have so many hazardous materials on one slippery and disgusting dance floor. Also, to the old asian man that followed my friend and I everywhere– BYE. You’re lucky I didn’t break a bottle on your head.
The bartenders are efficient and the drinks are cheap af! So definitely a fan of that. It didn’t take long for us to grab a beer at all. Cheap beer makes a happy girl. Oh, and re-​entry was easy and the bouncers didn’t give me a hard time about it.
Overall, a place to go for a cheap and fun night. Don’t wear flats here though, or you may end up in the emergency room.

This is a bar that I can somewhat tolerate! I’m typically the DD most nights but I can appreciate cheap drinks for all my friends! We got bottle service and they ushered us into the bottom floor before anyone else. I’m not sure if this was a plus for us since it was really cold and super awkward for a while until it filled up.
We did overhear a bartender telling a girl not to pay with change. I’m not sure what was up with this or what the reasoning is behind it, but last I checked, drinks are super low in price and loonies, toonies, and quarters are still legal tender.
This place gets pretty rammed. Once I was able to meander my way to the back of the room to go to the washroom, I was pleasantly surprised to see the bathroom was in decent shape and had no lineup. The doors had working locks too! Yay!
The DJ isn’t amateur by any means, and the music selection isn’t my first choice, but I can definitely see the appeal since its mostly Top 40, nostalgic 90’s tunes, and EDM bangers near the end of the night.
I’d rather come here to celebrate a friends birthday than a super expensive, super bro-​y club. People here love to get wild and have a fun time, no fanciness required.

Cheap alcohol and free guest list sign up are the positives. The bartender is tricky though, I got two drinks, one for my gf and I – (I got two rum and cokes for us) one basically had no alcohol and other had plenty –
Negatives — It is filled with a lot of uncultured swines who are just looking for hook ups.

I rarely go to bar but I came to bar 244 for drink specoal. It is eady to get table before 9pm. The place gets busy quickly after 9:30pm

$ 3 drinks, crowd-​pleasing music and free cover if you sign up on the guest list? Sounds like a fun night to me! Bar 244 is one of my favourite places to get a tad bit wasted upstairs at the bar (how could you no with $ 3 drinks!) and then have a fun time dancing downstairs only to sober up and repeat the process again. I love this place! I’ve never had an issue with the bouncers (in fact they’ve been incredibly pleasant to my friends and I) and the bartenders have never cheaped me out of my shots. I’ll certainly come here again!

The drinks were really cheap and at first the music was good but then they started playing all rock music. The ladies room was pretty dirty even for a bar, one of the stalls was clogged and the other one was gross.

Went to Bar 244 to celebrate a friend’s birthday on a Friday night. The line was quite long but I waited patiently and was able to enter after about 30 minutes. I found my friend downstairs on the very crowded dance floor. Being on the outside perimeter of the dance floor wasn’t ideal, as people were being very careless and just spilling drinks and bumping into you as they pleased. I have been to quite a few clubs in the city, but the guys at Bar 244 are some of the least pleasant. They kept trying to grab at my friend and myself, and had a VERY difficult time understanding no as an answer. The music was pretty decent, but overall, I don’t think I would return on account of the clientele.

I’ve been going to Bar 244 every couple months for a few years now. The drinks are cheap, $ 3 for a domestic beer or basic bar shot/​mixed drink. Music is decent. Lineup is usually not too long. Service at the bar is reasonably fast.

Bar étudiant du downtown classique avec bar au rez de chaussée et grande piste de danse au sous sol.
C’est un endroit idéal si vous voulez voir la night life à Toronto et voir comment sortent les étudiants locaux !

$ 3 drinks Friday and Saturday all night. Practically free!
Upstairs is a bar area accompanied with a few tables and stools to sit on. To the left of you is another room with coat check and also plenty of sitting space.
Get you drink and go downstairs and dance your pants off. There’s also another room downstairs accompanied with a bar area. Not much sitting space since you’re suppose to be dancing. The dance floor isn’t large, nor is it small. It’s just enough to fit 120 – 150 people. The DJ plays interesting music but some can be hard to dance to.
Oh and the bathroom? Hella small so go only when you must. But overall pretty good & good crowd. 19 – 30 I think it’s an underground gay club though.

$ 3 drinks all night every Friday and Saturday, cover is $ 5 before 11pm, all kind of music (mostly rock on friday), Bar 244 is an amazing spot. For some reason, I always end up at this bar during the weekend. The basement dance floor is small, it’s always packed with people but who cares, I’m here to have fun so I don’t mind at all.
The bartenders are both friendly and nice, even the bouncers! I never see them let anyone cut the line, or let anyone go inside first for money. Love it! Hotdog stand right outside the door is a great place for cheap late dinner as well. And if you don’t want hotdog, there is Smoke’s Pountinerie few steps away and the line is always ridiculously long.
Its online customer service is amazing too. They helped me to look for a picture I took with a friend in 2012 (they deleted some of the past photo albums to have space for new ones). I described the picture, gave the date and they replied to me the next day. Very impressive!
The only thing I don’t like about 244 is its washroom. It’s way too small and it’s always packed.
Bar 244 never brings me down every time I come back here!

3 $ drinks on friday night but shots n cocktails are 6 $. Bouncers kicked 2 of my friends out: my friends were just walking down the stairs n the bouncers kicked out a grouo of unruly guys n thought my friends were part of them. The bouncers didnt want to listen to any explanation. Cheap booze, sure but not really recommended.

$ 3 drinks all night every Friday & Saturday is impossible to argue with on Adelaide. Cover is usually only $ 5 before 11:00pm and the guestlist is always free and almost always available. The crowd is young, they play ALL KINDS OF MUSIC. Seriously, I heard «We Them Boys» and «Livin’ on a Prayer» in the same night. This is one of my go-​to places.
My only complaint is the bouncers, they are super friendly and would totally stand up for anyone with a problem HOWEVER they are easily distracted, usually by hot girls grinding on them or they’re talking to each other. They also don’t search everyone that enters, which can be a good thing for stoners, but one of my buddies was fresh off work and he made it in with a box-​cutter and pliers… right after they searched my other friend because he was wearing a baggy coat. I’ve never had an issue but enter at your own risk!

For what it is, bar 244 is a good spot. Very young crowd here, and the music they play in my opinion tailors to that. Nice spot for a fun dance night. Not to mention probably the best drink deals in toronto. No where else can u find 3 dollar drinks. It’s a great location in the dT core.

All I have to say is this place is so grimy and gross!
After having dinner at a nearby restaurant our group decided to go for some drinks. A promoter was standing outside Bar 244 handing out free entry cards to Cake Nightclub. However, some of our friends thought it was for Bar 244 so this is how we got there. I didn’t expect to pay $ 10 cover for a bar but luckily my boyfriend spotted me.
I didn’t know if I was in a club or a bar between the loud music and tables around the room. Bar 244 looked very outdated and it definitely needs to fix the place up… especially the bathroom. The women’s bathroom was dreadful! There were only two stalls however one of them didn’t even have a door on it. The one stall that had a door had graffiti all over it including the back wall.
My friends had a few drinks and said the drinks were pretty cheap but that’s the only good thing I heard about this place.
When we left we noticed that there was a lower level with a dance floor. I wouldn’t have danced anyways because the music was so old school.

I went here after my birthday dinner. Did not expect to pay $ 10 cover, as the place wasn’t even good other than the cheap drinks.
it was not my type of bar — they played 80-​early 90s music. The place felt very grimy.
Don’t recommend this place to people unless they really want to save money and just go for the booze.

Pretty awesome place to pre game with $ 3 shots and domestic beers, $ 4 for imports.
4 stars goes to the cheap drinks and awesome bartenders.
Kam was an excellent bartender! He kept drinks in our hands and was very quick to come back to us although the bar was packed.
Two floors with bar on each floor, club-​like dance floor on lower level, top level just like a typical bar.
Only thing that bothered me, were most of the rude guys trying to hit on everything and anything that moved. The ratio was maybe 4:1 guys to girls. Showing up as 2 girls, majority of guys were extremely rude and rowdy (I think that’s the word). Placing hands on us and wrapping arms around us, just being very touchy in general.
Maybe the majority of guys in Toronto just try very hard. I’m disgusted by how many men were trying so hard with the most pathetic pick-​up lines that we’ve heard a million times that even if we were shit-​faced, wouldn’t even phase us.
Music was okay, they said they were playing top 40, but to me, I thought I went back in time, since it was mostly top 40s songs of 2010-​11.

I’m giving this bar a generous 2 stars because a) $ 3 drinks and b) it’s not the worst place I’ve been.
It is, however, the worst I’ve ever been treated at any bar/​club in Toronto. In actuality, this place does not deserve anything more than ½ a star in my books, and sadly, that’s mainly because of the staff this bar employs.
We came here to celebrate my birthday last night, a Saturday. Friends of mine highly recommended it saying it was fun and cheap. No bottle service, but I did make a guest list. Here is how the night got progressively sour:
#1:
3 of my friends on my guest list who were ahead of us had to pay $ 10 cover. They were denied any refund even after explaining they were on guest list.
#2:
When I went to show the bouncer my ID, he literally pushed his finger into my collar bone, suggesting (quite physically) I move back. Couldn’t he ask?! No, I wasn’t misbehaving, just walked up ‘too fast’.
#3:
15 minutes of being inside, and the coat check girl had misplaced my brother’s jacket, which held his car keys, and which he had NOT checked in. She *promised* me she did not have it. After almost 40 – 45 minutes of trying to reason with her, she decided to check for it, found it, and ended up apologizing because yes, she did check it in without his knowledge.
#4:
While I was trying to reason with the coat check girl, my other friend tried to talk to a bouncer (big mistake) about the situation. Needless to say, he was unhelpful. When she asked to speak to someone who COULD help, he shoved her back using his chest and said «go find someone then!». My friend got angry but did not get physical or excessively rude, but stated her frustration. His response to this was to grab her arm, which was promptly followed by another bouncer grabbing her other arm. Seriously guys? You need 2 bouncers to hold back a 5’6″ girl who was neither violent nor drunk?!
This was just a few of the things she had to go through with this bouncer. I haven’t even stated the rest.
#5
After all of that was sorted out, we tried to get past it with some drinks. About 15 minutes later, my friend gets kicked out because he (rightfully) called the bar «shit». He wasn’t allowed to even get his jacket and this is Canada in February, people. Power-​trip much?!
#6
We still stay, unfortunately. About 20 minutes after that incident, my other friend gets kicked out for being «too drunk». She was neither falling, misbehaving or puking. Yes, she was drunk. Drunk enough to be kicked out without a warning at the very least? Definitely not.
#7
While I was standing, waiting for my friends, a bouncer literally shoves me aside with his body because «I was in the way». I have no idea what I was in the way of, and I don’t understand why he didn’t just ask me to move first.
Those are just a few of the reasons why my night out for my birthday was spoiled by the bouncers of this establishment. I believe they are completely ruining the experience of a bar that would otherwise be decent, albeit a little too crowded.
We decided to make the best of it and went to the lower level (which is actually probably one of the only two pros of this entire bar — avoid the upper level unless you plan on sitting at a table all night — because you’ll probably be «in the way» if you decide to walk anywhere on that floor), and ended the night having a decent time dancing. Music was nothing special — unmemorable mixes of top 40. Space was okay, nice place to dance, bar was close by. But I had basically lost most of my mood as half of my party was now gone, and the few of us left were still really disgusted with the bouncers’ behaviour. We ended up leaving shortly after that.
All in all, this place had a great concept — casual, cheap & quality drinks for the price, bearable music. But it lacks any kind of professionalism in terms of their staff (I have to mention that the bartenders were quite nice). My friends and I feel that the bouncers were rude and rough to the point where we felt violated. I’ve NEVER been treated this way at any bar or club anywhere, and nothing that any of us in my party did was even remotely close to being bad enough to have to endure the treatment we did — it was actually their mistake on more than one occasion.
Also, there was a couple pretty much doing the dirty on the dance floor downstairs, butt showing and everything (gross). They didn’t seem to get kicked out for THAT. Great standards.
This was my first time here, but I would be hard put to be back here if something doesn’t change. As of right now, I do not recommend it and encourage anyone to avoid it.

With $ 3 drinks and a lively crowd, this is a great place to come and party the night away without even breaking the bank.
The club/​bar has two main floors. The upper floor has a small selection of tables and chairs for those who might want sit and relax, but the placed was crowded enough that it was difficult to find a free spot. The upstairs also has a coat check available for $ 3, just in case you want to stow away your coat and any valuables.
The lower level is one giant dance floor, with a DJ playing a wide variety of music. I heard everything from Rihanna’s current hits to Cotton Eye Joe, and the DJ worked hard to keep the energy high and the music diversified.
The bartenders were extremely polite, and poured the drinks surprisingly strong for $ 3 each. The only real flaw was the long line to get in, and how incredibly crowded it once once I made it inside. It’s a popular place, but that also brings with it the problems you’d expect, and sometimes I was hard to even find the space to move and dance.
Overall, an excellent establishment. Bring your fiends, have some cheap drinks, and get lost in the music and crowd!

Pretty boring student crowd. Overflowing dancefloor that is hard to even breathe on. the usual top 40.
But at least it’s cheap… DIRT CHEAP.