The Alchemist magazine team has had so much fun hosting Vancouver Cocktail Week, we’re bringing the good times to Toronto. This fall, we’re launching the first annual Toronto Cocktail Festival, to be held October 22 to 26, 2025.

This inaugural year we will start with a five-day preview weekend festival and then expand to a full eight-day festival week for 2026.

Toronto is already a hub of cocktail creativity, with its multi-award-winning bartenders and brand ambassadors; now the Toronto Cocktail Festival offers those bartenders the showcase they deserve with a destination event that brings the cocktail-loving world to town. For more information, sign up for notifications at thealchemistmagazine.ca/tcf.

Meanwhile, VCW25 was held in March at venues across Vancouver, with the glamourous closing gala at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. Planning is already underway for next year; mark your calendars for VCW26, to be held March 1 to 8, 2026. For more info on that event, visit thealchemistmagazine.ca/vcw.