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Imagine a place where you can get a delicious and healthy snack, possibly an espresso, in a chic and simple café that recalls a European ‘joie de vivre’.  You go there after the gym, before work, with friends on the weekend, and even take the kids there for a treat. This is just the vision [...]

This Spring the Toronto social scene is fawning all over the cocktail. Now Magazine featured the subject on their cover with their rendition of the city’s top 10 recently; the LCBO designated a sub-site to the traditional recipes and appreciation of early cocktail culture (notably influenced by the success of the Manhattan-friendly “Mad Men”); and [...]

Recently, I drew surprise from a member of the Québec gastronomie scene when I mentioned that I had excitedly flocked not once; but – gasp! – twice to Brasserie Artisanale Dieu du Ciel up on Le Plateau in Montréal on my four day jam-packed trip to the city. It was a frigid weekend, with temperatures [...]

perogi, pyrogy, perogie, perogy, pirohi, piroghi, pirogi, pirogen, pierogy, pirohy, pyrohy?!? Visiting my parents in the blustery Bruce County hills off Lake Huron in January inevitably brings about the kind of creativity and inspiration I defer to daily when back “down South”, near Toronto. Provided that you can actually get to the nearest grocery store [...]

When I was 17, I found myself running around the streets of a small city in Northern France in the early evening with some like-minded classmates destined to take advantage of this miraculous culture that let us partake of alcoholic beverages prior to the legal age of majority back home in Ontario, Canada. We discovered [...]

Recently, I have found a new man that will ease a very large transition in my life – and my boyfriend completely approves of him! A few weeks ago, our lives were thrown into chaos when it was revealed with very short-notice that my significant other would be relocated by his company to open a [...]

What is it about Québec City? Like most questions in life, you simply must ask a trusted source for an answer. The city that sits formidably on the St. Lawrence is a beautifully balanced atmosphere of colonial France and the earliest of Canadiana best represented in its architecture, ambiance, and attitude. However, the unschooled visitor [...]