People Are All the Same

 A comprehensive list of all that have held the "Best Bar in the World" World Title Championship Belt.

Sneaky Dee's

The Toronto youth's first favourite bar. You hear about it from people just older than you and understand that you need to try the nachos. The tables covered in graffiti (latrinaria?) immediately look like something you've seen a million times in movies. You realize that drinking bottled beer in a bar is good. It's the first bar you go to regularly that isn't a Fox and the Fiddle or Firkin and that makes it feel like it's your friends' "place" even though it is everyone's friends' "place".

Jimmy Jazz

Guelph is big enough to have a population of weirdos, punks, hipsters, and art kids (are all of those the same thing?), but small enough that they all convene at the same place. Every person you've seen on campus that seems cool will one day have a conversation with you here. You graduate from bottles of PBR to bottles of Labbatt 50. A bench runs around the perimeter of a backyard patio that is where everyone hangs. The patio is so good that space heaters are installed overhead so that everyone can hangout outside during the winter, which they do.

Abstract

A goth dive bar that simultaneously feels like the intro scene to The Matrix, the Foot Clan hideout in Ninja Turtles, and a small-town watering hole that no one knows about. You discover yet another brand of bottled beer that makes you feel cool to drink in Molson Stock Ale. People watching will never, ever be better in your life. The first time you go, it's ironic, but you truly love it after that. 

Bar Stella

Tiny and dark with two picnic tables outside during the summer. A small menu of Indian food that is surprisingly authentic and hot considering the bar it's served in. Cheap bottles of 50, PBR, and Old Style. A DJ that plays Drake all the time. Never too busy. If you can name a more perfect Toronto bar, then you need to head to the bathroom because you're full of shit. RIP.

Dundas Video

We can all admit that "barcades" are still fun despite the fact that they are little played out. This one sent itself into the stratosphere by playing Raptors games on a projection screen during the playoff run and by accompanying that screen with tall cans of Wellington on special for $5. For a bar that brought people in to watch sports, it somehow had an asshole filter at the door and everyone there was fun and knowledgeable. There has never been a better place to watch basketball than Dundas Video in the spring of 2019.