LCBO - Chinatown: "Serving homeless people everywhere, one beer at a time."
As you open the door to the building that is oddly hard to see into (it must have been built during the time when Toronto considered alcohol a sin), you're met with a fresh scent of urine. I think it comes from the people both shopping in the store and from the aforementioned homeless that have peed on the building before their shopping expedition.
Inside, it's small and depressing--similar to other LCBO's, but even more so. The staff here are less helpful than on average. Several different cashiers I've had here have made the LCBO top 10 list for showing disdain for their customers...that's a pretty high bar. I feel like I've landed in one of those dry humour British television skits, where the employees are impossibly rude and deadpan; and yet they're speaking with equally impenetrable bizarre Canadian English accents.
The Vintages section is small, yet out of other stores that are this small like the one on Yonge near Wellesley, the selection is better. Very few cold wines. They're focusing on single-serve beers here for their target demographic.
If you can go to another LCBO, go to another LCBO.