Brews Brothers

Where other Canadian cities — notably Montreal — enjoy robust and vibrant brewpub scenes, we had to relax our definition (i.e. a bar that brews and serves its own beer on the premises) in order to come up with this scant and, unfortunately, exhaustive list of Toronto brewpubs. The recent … Read More

Sustain Attraction

Sustainable seafood never tasted so good. Living on the Pacific, Vancouverites have a healthy appetite for seafood. Can you imagine life without wild salmon and Dungeness crab? Didn’t think so. With an estimated 90 per cent of large, predatory fish already gone from the world’s oceans, we need to take … Read More

InterContinental Shift

A quietly dignified not-so-little secret nestled just down the street from Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the eight-story boutique hotel InterContinental Yorkville recently announced a brand new wine pairing menu for its fine dining restaurant, Signatures. It’s part of a 20th anniversary celebration that also sees the looks-older-than-twenty-in-that-classic-way hotel finishing off a room modernization project … Read More

Wasabi Wonderland

Though Vancouver is undoubtedly Canada’s sushi Mecca, Torontonians with a taste for raw fish need never go hungry, or settle for less. That’s not to suggest it’s all good in Hogtown: Toronto’s Japanese population is relatively low, and Lake Ontario is not an option for fishing. Regardless, there’s plenty of variety and … Read More

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