The Drake Hotel’s Summer Camp is now open. GFR checks out the new Tiki Bar, Movies In The Mess Hall, Chef Anthony Rose’s Urban Garden Dinner, and the new ice cream and t-shirt parlour “Scoops and Tees”…
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After that, I stuck with bourbon at my very favourite place for a drink after a long, hot day (and they were all long, hot days), The Napoleon House Bar and Café. As soon as we walked in I knew we would be sitting there for awhile. It was old, dark, comfortable and seemed to exude a magical sense of history that made you feel like lucky to be there. The service was slow but steady, and each item on the wall illustrated the bar’s storied past.
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The Stop have a great selection of food-related events coming up over the next month… from a strawberry-preserving class, to a film night, to a field trip to South 50 farms, and more!
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A few weeks ago we put Pizza Libretto/Enoteca Sociale Sommelier Lesa LaPointe through the wringer in one of our most popular articles thus far. We followed this with an interview with the Owner/Wine Geek of Parkdale’s Café Taste, Mr. Jeremy Day. This week we look into the mind of the lovely Zinta Steprans, Sommelier at Toronto restaurants L’Unita and Malena.
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In the midst of all this, however, I somehow got the bright idea that, at some point, I would open a bar, mostly to put an end to the dearth of decent cocktails in this city but also because over the last decade I have learned that writing, unlike crime, doesn’t pay. And, with this in mind, I looked at a lot of spaces. Some were too big, others too small; some had small animals living in crawl spaces and others had black mold worthy of a National Geographic piece. All pretty much had super-shady landlords.
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