Checking In: The Ace Hotel, Toronto
This warmly modernist new hotel is a hat tip to both the Canadian wilderness and design–forward Toronto.
Music at Work
City Pop is not your typical restaurant kitchen music. While many male-dominated kitchens skew toward “hip hop and metal, often aggressive metal that makes you move fast, City Pop offers a special, more rarefied niche in the kitchen, emotionally elevating rather than punishing.
Steam Player
Most customers are happy to wait for Nobuyuki Toyoshima’s food because they love the 11-hour pork-chicken-and-bonito soup broth base that he makes, his go-it-alone ronin attitude, and because he’s trained them to be patient.
The Best Izakaya in Toronto—and What to Eat and Drink There
Toronto's Izakaya scene is bustling. Here, a guide to the best spots in town and what you should be sampling there. Sake pairings included.
Izumi Sake: A Great Brewery by a Great Lake
Profile of local Toronto sake Brewery Izumi Ontario Spring Water Sake Company and its founder and president, Ken Valvur.