Back in December at the Foodiemeet bake-off I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from the Samovar Room for bottle service vodka. I went back with friends a month later and enjoyed a bottle of Russian Standard. This isn’t really the usual bottle service experience because the waitress brings a tray full of [...]
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Hot July Day in an Orchard
A couple weeks ago the lure of futuristic sex robots on the promotional invitation pulled me to Parkdale’s Parts & Labour for the Canadian launch of Svedka vodka. This most filtered and pure spirit is not my favourite spirit but I always try to keep an open mind where free alcohol is involved. After we [...]
Clotts Mamato
I am always surprised that more people don’t know that the Bloody Caesar was invented in Canada. The story goes that in the late sixties bartender Walter Chell created the cocktail from the typical ingredients for pasta vongole (clams and tomato sauce) as part of the festivities for launching a new Italian restaurant in Calgary. [...]
