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Molson Coors to launch a pink “beer” for chicks

It’s no surprise that women seem to be less into beer than men. While ads rife with midriff-bearing women are appealing to some, they can make it seem like beer is exclusively a man’s drink. “They’ve got to go,” says Toronto beer specialist Mirella Amato. As organizer of Toronto’s chapter of Barley’s Angels, a girls-only beer club, she knows that women can appreciate the beverage just as much as men if given a chance. So, how can breweries get women more into beer?

Who cares if pisco brandy is from Peru or Chile? In Toronto, it’s making some sweet cocktails

It’s difficult to fathom how a low-profile spirit like pisco could spawn an enduring rift between continental neighbours: it’s nearly odourless, with an unremarkably anemic hue. But the strong and stealthy South American grape brandy has been the viciously sought-after prize in an ongoing cultural tug-of-war between Chile and Peru for centuries.

Queen West's Quaff Café reborn as R Squared Café

When R Squared Café opened up in the Trinity Bellwoods area earlier this month, we couldn’t help but be curious about the name. Turns out that the shop is simply named after the two Rezas — Sheikh and Yazdjerdi — who own it. Nothing more complicated than that.

Tony Aspler's wine pick of the week: Bommarito Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

Here’s a wine that can stand up to just about anything you throw at it. I took it to an Indian restaurant and had it with curry. Bommarito is the second label of Whitehall Lane and remembers one of the founding fathers of the Napa Valley industry, Dominic Bommarito, who moved to the Valley in 1929. The wine is juicy blackcurrant and blackberry with notes of dark chocolate. Ready to drink. Food match: BBQ meats, aged cheddar. (Vintages #213918)

Toronto's Best Burritos

The GTA is bursting with burritos, but as our taste test proves, not all renditions of Mexico’s greatest gift to gastronomy are created equal.

Alessandro Settimi sells Mad Italian Gelato Bar, sets his sights on the good ol' pizzeria

As Rome’s answer to ice cream continues to delight Toronto taste buds, some may be surprised to learn that Alessandro Settimi has sold the Mad Italian Gelato Bar.

Coming Soon: The Grove, a food emporium, on Queen Street West. Picture the green movement on steroids

Boasting certified organic, sustainable and eco-friendly food is all the rage, but have we wrung those buzz words dry? The Grove, a soon-to-be “food emporium and smart market,” will take on many of those same values, but with a fresher approach.

Tony Aspler's wine pick of the week: Chateau des Charmes Equuleus 2007

Paul Bosc has been making this red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc since 1998 but only in fine vintages. It sounds pricey at $40 a bottle, but it has the quality and flavour of a French wine at twice the price. If you like red Bordeaux, this is the wine for you. Floral and spicy on the nose, it’s rich on the palate with cassis and dark chocolate flavours that finish dry and savoury. Food match: rack of lamb, filet mignon. Available at winery or winerytohome.com.

What's better than roasted corn? Free roasted corn at St. Lawrence Market

Nothing tastes more like summer then shucked corn cooked over an open flame. This weekend, the St. Lawrence Market is hoping that charred kernels dipped in melted butter are enough to lure Torontonians away from their air conditioning and down to its farmer’s market, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Bier Markt to become the Shops at Don Mills’ newest purveyor of beer, exotic spelling

The Shops at Don Mills has been growing rapidly over the past couple years, and Robert Medal has been keeping watch. The general manager of Toronto’s Bier Markt — currently with one location on King Street West and another on The Esplanade — knew that the evolving outdoor shopping center was the perfect spot for a third Bier Markt location.

It’s North America’s first-ever queer beer festival this Thursday (why didn’t anyone think of that before?)

It seems so obvious: queers and beers go together like, um, how they rhyme together. But it took Les Murray, the president of Toronto’s Festival of Beer — plus a Cyndi Lauper concert at last year’s Dyke Day festival — to make it happen. Sitting at the Queen’s Park event, Murray thought to himself, “This would be an unbelievable audience to do a festival with.”

In light of Toronto Star article, La Palette puts a moratorium on selling horsemeat

Last month, Rosedale’s Terroni Bar Centrale pulled horsemeat from its menu. The move — prompted solely by poor sales, apparently — wasn’t a complete surprise, since selling horsemeat is extra risqué for a chain restaurant. But what does it mean when, after over a decade, La Palette stops serving horsemeat, as it did over the weekend?

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