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It’s summer, so what better time for a potluck dinner with some of Victoria’s food and cocktail bloggers on beautiful Gyro Beach in Saanich. Bring one of your favourite dishes or drink and join in! Gyro Beach is a beautiful kid-friendly beach with a playground and lots of room to run around, so bring the youngsters [...]

Those of you who know me, know that while I enjoy all things cocktail, my preference is for brown spirits — rum, bourbon, scotch, rye (not necessarily in that order) — therefore, I have a minimal number of vodkas in the liquor cabinet.  When mixing classic cocktails, personality and dimension is a key part of [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Canada has great food. Many Americans might claim that y’all live in igloos and only eat doughnuts and beaver meat, but I know the truth. Vancouver and Toronto both house some of the best ethnic foods found on the continent and I’ve eaten Mexican food in Victoria that’ll beat the pants off anything straight south [...]

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 [...]

Welcome back to the wonderful world of cocktails! Now that you’ve started thinking about your liquor purchases, and perhaps taken the shopping list from the last post to the liquor store, its time to start thinking about the basic equipment that will make your life easier when mixing cocktails , and some of the basic [...]

With the recent popularity of television shows such as Mad Men, and an upswing in the creation of some cocktail lounges that really know their stuff, many of you are becoming much more interested in creating some of those cocktails at home. People are once again talking about, and drinking cocktails such as the Manhattan, [...]