Angel's Envy is a Louisville-based craft distiller that produces award-winning whiskeys each of which is finished in secondary barrels to add a distinct layer of flavor and complexity. The result is a premium bourbon with a nuanced and balanced profile.…
The term "chef's kitchen" is everywhere these days. While home kitchens (and cooks) are more sophisticated than ever, does a home cook need to cook on chef-quality equipment? The answer is yes if the oven is from Gaggenau. The 300-year-old…
You will learn in these pages, for example, that the flavour profile of that indispensable British condiment Worcestershire sauce owes a debt to garum, a fermented anchovy popular with the occupying Romans. That a later conquest by the Normans gave…
Fairmont Royal York has enough holiday style and activities to impress even the most passionate Christmas lovers. You can take in the two-story Christmas tree from the Clockwork Bar. Order the just-for-the-holidays A Kind of Magic Cognac with Dark Rum, Ginger,…
Yes, please! Especially when it's Masayoshi Baba presiding over the sushi bar at Vancouver's fabulous Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel. We've long been fans of the smiling chef and his superb east end restaurant (#48 in 2018). So, when he launched…
My Ackee Tree is a “life in food” memoir that’s ready for a screenplay. Toronto chef Suzanne Barr has been through the wringer. That journey is expressed here in a cogent and entertaining narrative delivered at a level that few of…
Margarita Carrillo Arronte’s Mexico: The Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies globally. That much-adored 2014 tome now has a companion volume, The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook, showcasing vegetarian recipes from every (incredibly varied) region of Mexico. These are touted in the…
Oddbird–which started out as a pandemic-era fried chicken takeaway–has since grown up into the sort of neighbourhood restaurant that we all wish we had next door. The décor has a sense of fun, the cocktail program is superb (thank you,…
Zach Keeshig is the head chef and owner of Naagan, a pop-up restaurant at the Owen Sound Farmer's Market. His time in the kitchen of places like Michael Stadtländer's Eigensinn Farm, The Restaurant at Pearl Morisette, and Langdon Hall has helped…
At 351m/1,151 feet, the wine cellar at 360 The Restaurant at the CN Tower is officially the World's Highest and one of the most attractive. The Cellar in the Sky is inspired by the finest European tradition, with precision climate…
EVERY SUMMER WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my family would drive from Montreal to Cape Cod for a weeklong vacation. Those trips were my introduction to fresh seafood, and I fell in love, instantly. My mother encouraged us to try everything…
