{"id":850271,"date":"2026-08-08T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850271\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:04:08","slug":"the-best-bars-with-live-music-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850271\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Bars with Live Music in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            Dina&#8217;s Tavern<\/p>\n<p>The crew behind Track &amp; Field and Bangarang took over the old Silver Dollar Room \u2014 the rockabilly-and-punk room that ran on Spadina from 1958 until 2017 \u2014 and reopened it as a \u201970s-leaning tavern with a sunglasses-wearing, cigarette-smoking cartoon rat named Dina for a mascot. The cocktails are playful (a tomato martini, a strawberry-and-coconut daiquiri), the look is bombshell-meets-rock-grit, and the back bar is a heap of vintage curios. Monday\u2019s Jazz Rat Nights come with $10 martinis; Thursdays pour a $5 house golden ale.<br \/>\nThe roughly 165-seat room was built to give smaller acts a proper stage \u2014 groovy bands and DJs on weekends, jazz trios, folk and psych rock midweek, plus a weekly bluegrass night carried straight over from the Silver Dollar days.\n<\/p>\n<p>486 Spadina Avenue                    <br \/>Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dina&#8217;s Tavern The crew behind Track &amp; Field and Bangarang took over the old Silver Dollar Room \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60051,49,48,61573,33921,8870,61,3302],"class_list":["post-850271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bars","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cocktails","tag-downtown","tag-live-music","tag-technology","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}