Town Tavern

The Town Tavern was a jazz club in Toronto, Ontario that operated from 1949 to 1971.

The club was one of the city's preeminent jazz venues and a regular performance venue for pianist Oscar Peterson.

The Town Tavern was located in the McDonald & Willson Building at 16 Queen Street E, which was built in 1909 and was designed by architect John Francis Brown (1866–1942).

[1] Owned by Sam Berger, the Town Tavern was one of Toronto's busiest jazz clubs throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

In July 1958, Oscar Peterson recorded a live album on the Verve label from the Tavern, featuring his then trio composed of Herb Ellis and Ray Brown.