Escape conventional cocktails

Escape conventional cocktails

Suite 115 offers visually stunning, experiential and culinary-inspired drinks. And it’s hiding in plain sight in Little Italy.   Two years ago, Suite 115, a semi-hidden bar with precision cocktails in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood, burst onto the city’s...
This bar is dialled in

This bar is dialled in

From classics to signature selections, Vancouver speakeasy Call Me Back is leaving you a message.   When you wander inside the Lions Pub, a traditional English-style establishment in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour, it’s everything you expect: pints of draught, sports...
Spirits, spice and everything nice

Spirits, spice and everything nice

At the Indian-French fusion Peya, Chris Enns mixes up an irresistible cocktail On an unassuming corner of East Hastings Street near Victoria Drive sits one of Vancouver’s most exciting and underrated cocktail lists. It’s here, at the Indian-French restaurant Peya,...
We are who we meet

We are who we meet

At No Vacancy, Troy Gilchrist distills a lifetime of experience into flawless hospitality Behind the wood at No Vacancy, veteran bartender Troy Gilchrist and his small crew of fellow bartenders Kat Yu and Nick Hurd embody the ethos that personal connection is the...
Bar Gobo’s vinyl vibe

Bar Gobo’s vinyl vibe

The Chinatown wine bar rebrands as a hi-fi joint, and we are so there for it For Paul McCloskey, running what might be Vancouver’s first dedicated vinyl-only hi-fi wine bar is something of a full-circle moment. “It’s the combination of all the things I really love,”...
Behind the curtain

Behind the curtain

Cry Baby Gallery is a locals hangout that really is all about the art of the cocktail “Locals only” is a phrase invented specifically for places like Toronto’s Cry Baby Gallery. An urban hangout that embodies the metropolitan culture of its city, just far enough from...