It's all about the details. Whether it's a casual dinner party amongst friends or a special tasting menu dinner at a fine dining restaurant, it's the little things that separate a good experience from a fantastic one. Those finer details were on display last week as the team at Auberge du Pommier hosted O'Canapé.
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If you're like us at Spotlight Toronto, one of your favourite ways to enjoy local craft beer is amongst the good company of family and friends.
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It's housed inside a disused Anglican church, brews an unusual flagship beer and is located in the heart of Niagara wine country. On the surface Silversmith is anything but your typical Ontario craft brewery. But dig a little deeper and you'll find the story which sparked many craft breweries to success—a couple of friends [...]
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Recently the Fermenting Cellar in Toronto's Distillery District hosted the largest festival celebrating sake in the country. With over 100 sakes available to taste from Japan, the USA and Canada as well as 13 Toronto restaurants, the second annual Kampai Toronto was the place to be for anyone who loves Japan's national drink, cuisine [...]
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Craft beer is made carefully, from quality ingredients, on a small scale. All of those factors mean that it costs much more to produce a pint of your local brewery's pale ale than one of the macrobewery's fizzy, international lager. That said, there are times when a bar wants to clear inventory or say [...]
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One of the most significant openings in Niagara last year took place in a historic red barn on Niagara Stone Road. But instead of having anything to do with Riesling, Chardonnay, Caberent Franc or Pinot Noir, Oast House is all about a different kind of fermented beverage—craft beer.
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Shawinigan is a bit of a curious place. On the shores of the mighty Saint-Maurice River, it has built a historical identity as a hard-working industrial city by making the most of its natural landscape with paper mills and hydro-electric power plants. But along the the way it has done this with a sly, [...]
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Chardonnay is the wine world's most famous socialite. The always fashionable cosmopolitan wine is made from the world's most widely-planted premium grape.
Like a true global star, it's at home everywhere and able to adapt to local tastes. It does this seemlingly effortlessly all while staying true to the initial qualities that made [...]
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