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Dear reader, The most wonderful/miserable/commercial time of the year is drawing closer. It seems like just yesterday we were ranking the city’s best new patios, but in the blink of a Furby’s soulless eye, our holiday gift guide is out, festive markets are in full swing, and Toronto bars are doing their damnedest to cover all available surfaces in wrapping paper. So, depending on which of the aforementioned categories you place the holidays in, you’re either going to get excited or grinchy about this edition of Table Talk. (Grinch here, so please excuse me while I light a balsam fir–scented candle to get in the mood.) Our ultimate gift guide, which you’ll read more about below, offers over 100 suggestions for what to get everyone on your holiday shopping list—and more than a dozen of them are edible. I can personally vouch for Kanel’s Montreal bagel spice, which is way better than Trader Joe’s version and doesn’t require a trip across the border. The six-kilogram container of top-notch maraschino cherries from Luxardo will get any self-respecting manhattan drinker through December (and even January) comfortably. And what true brieliever wouldn’t want a make-your-own-cheese kit? Hindsight being 20/20, I can’t help but notice how much better our gift guide recommendations have gotten over the years. Please refer to this, my magnum opus, to see what I mean.
Also in this week’s newsletter, everything there is to eat and drink at the Distillery District’s Winter Village. Plus, a look inside Miracle on Bloor, the annual popup cocktail bar that crams as much Christmas as possible into every square inch of spirited space; and what’s on the menu at I Am Döner, North America’s first location of the British kebab chain. For more of our food-and-drink coverage, visit torontolife.com or subscribe to our print edition. |
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| —Rebecca Fleming, food and drink editor |
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Great gifts come from the heart. Even greater gifts, though, are the ones you can eat. Our discriminating holiday shopper rounded up present ideas for the food-lover on your list including treat bundles (gourmet cookies, a basket of Hanukkah goodies) for the snackers and DIY kits (cheese, matcha, pancakes) for the hands-on foodies. |
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| | From now until January 5, the Distillery District is decked out in all kinds of trimmings and trappings and tourists for its annual Winter Village. We visited each of the food vendors to find out all of the sweet and savoury dishes visitors can enjoy. (Fun fact: calories don’t count within the confines of the market because it’s magical). |
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| | If the market wasn’t enough to get you in the holiday spirit, head on over to Miracle on Bloor, the city’s kitschiest popup cocktail bar, for a cup of boozy eggnog, a hug from an animatronic teddy bear and the trippy floor-to-ceiling blinking, twinkling and sparkling decorations. |
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| | Queen West’s new fast-casual kebab kitchen from the UK, is rolling out wraps, bowls and fries, all stuffed and loaded with döner (or the seitan-based vöner), falafel, roasted veggies and all the pickle fixings. See what else you can get at I Am Döner, a restaurant that is definitely not having an identity crisis. |
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