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It’s always hard to know when it is acceptable to review a new brewery. There are a number of schools of thought here. For the Ontario Craft Beer Guide, we included everyone who was open whether we had tried their beers or not, denoting untried products with the designation “NR”. […]

Avling Kitchen and Brewery

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I don’t quite remember who said it to me (maybe Dave Sun Lee on twitter): “why would you go across town for beer at this point?” A decade ago that question was ridiculous; people would cross the country. With nearly 60 breweries in the city of Toronto, you probably have […]

Longslice Brewery and The Aviary

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It’s not really St.John, you know.  No one really had that as a last name. It wasn’t a medieval occupation like Smith, or Baker, or Fletcher, or Cooper. An eccentric master at school would always ask if it was Sinjin, since I went to Upper Canada and it must have […]

On Picking Hops in Kingston

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The Rosedale Diner is sort of a neighbourhood date night place. That’s how I remember it, anyway, having taken a date there about a decade ago. It’s funny that I remember the Duck Confit more than the conversation, but perhaps not all that surprising. I had read Kitchen Confidential and […]

The Rosedale Diner

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He gets it wrong, but maybe I’ve explained what I’m looking for badly. “Culture comes from the top down,” says John Keeling standing behind a row of bleachers during intermission. “Say I get a bonus annually and the director of the company comes to me and says that next year, […]

Some Thoughts on Fuller’s

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