drinking
Hitting the patio for a drink during Calgary’s late spring and summer is more than a satisfying experience for men in the city — it’s downright cathartic, getting us outside and providing opportunities to see beautiful women bathed in prairie sunlight and, hopefully, smiling in our direction. Depending on your … Read More
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
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
Arguably the country’s best province for sheer brewpub selection, Quebec enjoys a well-earned reputation for artisanal brewing. It’s due more to free-spirited European attitude than French cultural influence (France being, naturellement, more of a wine country) but, whatever the reason, la belle province is a Canadian microbrew hotspot, and Montreal … Read More
Few things cannot be determined by James Whitcomb Riley’s duck test. You know: “A bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck is probably a duck.” Actually, I can only think of two: The first is my sick ex-boyfriend who used to dress … Read More
