El Mocambo, Music venue in Toronto, Canada

El Mocambo is a live music venue at 464 Spadina Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A large projecting sign shows a stylized palm tree with green fronds outlined in yellow and a crescent moon above the name EL MOCAMBO spelled vertically in white capitals on a tapering column; below, a black panel reads TAVERN in yellow. A green fascia panel carries a circular palm logo and the words UNDER THE NEON PALM.

Restaurateurs Joseph Brown and John Lang opened El Mocambo on March 23, 1948, after obtaining one of Toronto's first liquor licences under the 1946 Liquor Licence Act. The name and neon palm sign came from a San Francisco nightclub. In 1977 The Rolling Stones played a surprise show as "The Cockroaches" opening for April Wine, later issued on the Love You Live album.

The name and neon palm sign came from a San Francisco nightclub. In the 1960s the club drew Toronto's Hungarian, Irish and Portuguese communities, and a German dance club, Deutsches Tanz Lokal, often rented the second floor. From 1998 Dan Burke booked garage rock acts, and Will Munro's monthly queer rock party Vazaleen helped launch Peaches.

El Mocambo sits at 464 Spadina Avenue, just south of College Street, within walking distance of the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Music is performed on two stages, one on the main floor and one upstairs, and the building also holds several bars, private rooms, a recording studio and dance floors.

The neon palm sign and the name were borrowed from a San Francisco nightclub when restaurateurs Joseph Brown and John Lang opened the cocktail bar on March 23, 1948. The projecting sign shows a stylized palm with green fronds, a crescent moon and the name spelled vertically above a panel reading TAVERN.