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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Above Toronto's most storied rock club, a former speakeasy has been the city's student dance floor for four decades. The Dance Cave occupies the upper level of Lee's Palace at 529 Bloor Street West in the Annex, a building that opened in 1919 as a movie theatre and cycled through lives as the Blue Orchid cabaret and Oriental Palace before Chong Su Lee opened his namesake club in September 1985. The upstairs room owes its existence to the Blue Orchid years: 1960s owner Ed Silverberg tore out the...