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Cocktail from Montreal bartenders

Cocktails; “Made with Love”

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 [...]

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Sanity, Soul (and Celery?) in Hollywood: The Piano Bar

6429 Selma Avenue | Hollywood, CA | 323-466-2750 | www.pianobarhollywood.com | Piano Bar on Facebook Hollywood night-life: we’ve all heard the stories, we’ve all seen the photos. Starlets and their wardrobe malfunctions, athletes and their entourages, the velvet rope I’m on the list crowd, and the paparazzi-induced meltdowns. Yeah, that stuff happens around the corner. [...]

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Round 2 at Dieu du Ciel

Québécois Quality: Brasserie Artisanale Dieu du Ciel

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 [...]

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Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Aussie Rules Foodhouse + Bar 1002-37th Street SW (Westbrook Mall) | Calgary, AB | 403-249-7933 | www.aussierules.ca I recently returned from a couple weeks in the great city of Calgary, Alberta (I’ll spare you the Victoria-girl-whining-about-the-cold saga). While I was out there, I was constantly on the lookout for unique restaurants, coffee shops and cafes, [...]

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Ontario Craft Beer: A Personal Journey

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 [...]

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Port Hope Proud & Full of “Black Beans”

Port Hope Proud & Full of “Black Beans”

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 [...]

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