Toronto, Canada · Five-Star · ★★★★★
Bisha Hotel Toronto
A Lenny Kravitz floor, a glass-bottom rooftop pool, and Akira Back. The loudest design hotel in Entertainment District.
A Lenny Kravitz floor, a glass-bottom rooftop pool, and Akira Back. The loudest design hotel in Entertainment District.
"The Lenny Kravitz floor is a real thing — and it works because Kravitz actually has taste. A black-marble, rooftop-pool hotel on Blue Jays Way for guests who want their luxury louder."
Bisha opened in 2017 on Blue Jays Way, a few stops from Rogers Centre and the Royal Alexandra Theatre, and immediately did what very few new Toronto hotels manage: it gave the city a genuine design-hotel address. The 96-room property is a Marriott Tribute Portfolio member, but the brand association understates what is happening here. Black marble, mirrored ceilings, gold metal, and a velvet-heavy palette make the lobby feel less like a corporate hotel and more like a Las Vegas suite that completed an MFA. The result is intentional, coherent, and unapologetically loud.
The defining feature is the seventh and final floor — Floor 38, branded the "Lenny Kravitz Heritage" floor — designed personally by Lenny Kravitz through his Kravitz Design studio. The 41 rooms across this level deliver Kravitz's specific vision: dark woods, custom velvets, brass fixtures, and a record player in every suite. The Kravitz Suites, with their wraparound terraces and floor-to-ceiling skyline views, are the rooms that fill first. Below that floor, the standard Bisha rooms — designed by Toronto's own Studio Munge in collaboration with hospitality impresario Charles Khabouth — are smaller but still strikingly designed. Most rooms run between 240 and 350 square feet, which is honest for Toronto.
Akira Back, the Michelin-recognised Korean-Japanese restaurant on the 44th floor, is the property's marquee dining room. The chef behind it — a former professional snowboarder turned global restaurateur — runs outposts from Seoul to Las Vegas, and the Toronto kitchen executes the signature tuna pizza, AB tacos, and yellowtail jalapeño with appropriate confidence. The room is dark, clubby, and beautifully lit. The view across the CN Tower at night is the closest Toronto comes to a Manhattan dinner. Reserve at least two weeks ahead in summer.
The rooftop pool deck, accessible to all guests, is the second magnet. The pool itself is partially cantilevered with a glass section, sitting 44 floors above Blue Jays Way. From mid-May to early October it is the most photographed hotel pool in the city, and rightly so. The Kost rooftop restaurant beside it serves a Baja-leaning menu through the warmer months. Downstairs in the lobby, Mister C — Charles Khabouth's signature lobby bar concept — pours late into the night and transitions from an after-work espresso martini crowd to a properly fashionable Saturday-night room. The neighbouring Mister C Bar continues the same energy with an Italian-inflected list.
The location is the third pillar of the case for Bisha. You are inside the Entertainment District, three minutes' walk from Roy Thomson Hall, five from Rogers Centre, and ten from the TIFF Bell Lightbox — which means during the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Bisha effectively becomes festival-adjacent housing for industry attendees and talent. Khabouth's design philosophy across his INK Entertainment empire — that hospitality should feel like an event, not a service — is most clearly expressed in this hotel. Bisha is not for the guest who wants invisibility. It is for the guest who came to Toronto to be seen having a good time.
For a Toronto anniversary that prefers cocktails to candlelight, Bisha makes a strong case. Book a Kravitz Suite on Floor 38 for the wraparound terrace and the record player, dinner at Akira Back at sunset for the CN Tower view, and finish at Mister C with a Negroni in a leather banquette. The whole evening can be choreographed without leaving the building, which matters in February. For warmer-month anniversaries, the rooftop pool deck handles afternoons before dinner with no further work required.
Bisha is, candidly, the best bachelor or bachelorette hotel in Toronto. The rooftop pool is the daytime venue, Mister C is the early-evening venue, Akira Back handles the dinner, and King Street West clubs are a four-minute walk in any direction. Block two adjacent Kravitz Suites and you have a private floor-38 base for the weekend. The concierge has organised this exact weekend hundreds of times — restaurant tables, club tables, party-bus pickups, late breakfast. Discretion is genuinely respected.
For a proposal that wants drama rather than tradition, Bisha delivers. The Akira Back corner table at sunset, with the CN Tower lit gold across the window, is a defensible choice. For something more private, the Kravitz Suite terrace at dusk — champagne staged before a returning helicopter view of downtown — does the work alone. Brief the concierge 48 hours in advance. They will handle photography, flowers, and post-yes dinner relocation to Mister C without making a production of it.
Rates checked May 2026. Price may vary by date.
Bisha Hotel Toronto is designed for guests who want the night to start in the lobby and end on the rooftop. Block a Kravitz Suite, brief the concierge, and let the city do the rest.
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