1960s: Avenue Road hotel, cocktail lounge Summerhill?

Question

Can anyone tell me the name of a hotel on the east side of Avenue Rd in the block north of Bloor? Don't know when it opened but it was definitely there through most of the 1960s.

And a very exotic cocktail lounge/restaurant located near Summerhill subway station, East Asian with palm trees & bridges ... maybe "Ports of Call"?

Answer 1

Hotel Summerhill

Answer 2

I am a former chef and worked at the Ports or Ports of Call (with my friend Peter Dover)and "Yes", it was near the Summerhill Subway, but that the Yonge line just north of the old CP rail station it is a LCBO outlet and the old Ports property is a Condo complex.

The bar or lounge you speaking of was at the  east corner of Prince Arthur and Bloor, and was called the "Palms", as you said, I apprenticed with a guy who worked at the Park Plaza in the 70's and walk by it even after it closed, the buliding is gone and was absorbed into the new complex were Whole Foods and the Jagaur dealership is.

The other hotel there is the Four Seasons, an there is a new hotel in the old Hazelton Lanes complex.

If it was further up towards Davenport Rd then your talking about the old Venture Inn, it was a chain absorbed by the Choice Hotels comapny, I stayed a few years back in the building it is now a Howard Johnsons.

Answer 3

In New York, we don't say ''Ports of call''. We say ''Ports''. And that is in Avenue road.

Answer 4

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