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Toronto Festival of Beer 2012

  • August 7, 2012
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The weather was great at the Toronto Festival of Beer as we had tons of fun in the sun with beer, girls, food trucks and good tunes.  This must be the most highly-anticipated and well-attended annual beer celebration in Toronto.  Indicative of the demand is the speed at which it sells out.  Attending this beer event on the Friday or Saturday requires your commitment months in advance as it sells out quickly.

Our favourites, which we rarely get into trying, include Paulaner, Erdinger, Shocktop, Flying Monkey’s Hoptical Illusion, and some of our usual go-to favourites include Mill Street’s Tankhouse Ale and Heineken.

Endless varieties of beer are the main attraction but with all that beer consumption we were glad to find one of our favourite food pastimes, Smoke’s Poutinerie. Another surprise which offered great value was Melt Grilled Cheese where we opted for the 3-cheese variety.  It was obvious it was good and others could tell as there were multiple inquiries as to where we got this square of delicious cheesy-grillness.  Other yummy food choices include Fidel Gastro’s (who recently announced their TV show) and the new pop-up The Feasting Room.

For Sunday the main attraction for us was Big Wreck, a classic band that brought back the good ol’ days that didn’t seem so long ago.  It was a solid performance that was definitely a great highlight to end the 3-day event.

ABOUT Toronto Festival of Beer

Toronto’s Festival of Beer is a celebration of Canada’s rich brewing history, hosted by experts of the brewing craft from around the world. Featuring 200+ brands onsite, this is Canada’s premier celebration of the golden beverage!

http://www.beerfestival.ca

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Lifford Wine Agency’s Boys Night Out

  • July 21, 2012
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We had such a great time at Evergreen Brick Works with Lifford Wine Agency celebrating everything that men enjoy including fine scotch, cognac, great bbq (ribs, pulled pork), Callaway had a driving range.  Audi showed their top cars including an R8 and TT-S.

There was some flare for fashion with the help of Harry Rosen with an array of suits and Sharp Magazine.

For our first Lifford Boys Night Out, it was surprising to us that there was a lack of beer or cocktails at this event.  But for an event held by a wine agency I suppose that’s forgiveable considering everything else that was thrown in for the grand Boys Night Out experience.   Our only complaint was that the event didn’t last longer!  We enjoyed the Sharp magazines, popcorn and the Crew products to keep us styling and well-groomed.

With the majority of events out there focused on women, it is refreshing to have an event focused on what men really want.  We look forward to future opportunities to attend Boys Night Out.

 

 

 

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Powerball: Quarter-Life Crisis

For those in the know, Powerball at The Power Plant is a highly anticipated annual celebration.  For the gallery’s 25th anniversary, Power Ball’s “Quarter Life Crisis” was a well-attended evening with 1,700 guests.  Those in attendance read like a who’s-who of Canadian and Toronto socialite fame including Melissa Grelo, Mary Kitchen, Jian Ghomeshi, Tanya Kim, Rick Mercer.

Greta Constantine

Greta Constantine

We spotted our own personal favourite musician, Clara Venice, who performed at our recent Local Artist event at ING.  Looking forward to her next performance at Drake Hotel!

Clara Venice

Dragonette performed for the VIP portion to kick off the night and DJ’s Alex Merrell and Diego Armand kept everyone dancing late into the night.

Many guests were dressed in fashionably provocative attire, Perrier cocktails and Kronenbourg 1664 beer were available at many bar stations (albeit with lineups at each due to the massive turnout), and Chef Marc Thuet of Petite Thuet kept us well-fed with a bison sandwiches from a 400 pound bison roast and BBQ corn.

It was good to see #PowerBallTO trending worldwide and the reasons were obvious!  Looking forward to Powerball again next year!

About Power Ball:

Power Ball is the gallery’s largest annual fundraiser. From its inception in 1999, Power Ball has set the standard as the most influential, vibrant and original contemporary art party. Attracting a sophisticated “who’s who” crowd of artists, fashionistas, celebrities, and financiers from the world of film, advertising, music, design, and art, this is one sensational party providing vital funds to the exhibition and public programs at The Power Plant.

About The Power Plant:

The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary visual art. It is a vital forum for the advanced artistic culture of our time that offers an exceptional facility and professional support to diverse living artists while engaging equally diverse audiences in their work. The Power Plant pursues its activities though exhibitions, publications and public programming. It fulfills its mandate by generating: exhibitions that represent the range of advanced practice in visual arts; publications that increase knowledge of contemporary art; lectures and symposia that encourage debate and further understanding; interpretative tools that invite visitors to question, explore and reflect upon their experiences; programming that incorporates other areas of culture when they intersect with visual art.

For more information, please visit the The Power Plant website.

SummerWorks Soiree VIP Dinner July 5th

  • July 4, 2012
  • arts, food
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SummerWorks Performance Festival is hosting a VIP dinner, Thursday July 5th, as a fundraiser for the upcoming 2012 festival and we would like to extend an invitation to you.

Hosted by award-winning playwright and actor Michael Healey, the elegant three-course dinner features the culinary combination of Toronto top chef and owner of Cow Bell Restaurant, Mark Cutrara and Brockton General chef Alexandra Feswick. Providing you the opportunity to have a first taste of Cutrara and Feswick’s new restaurant Samuel J Moore, opening on the main floor of the Great Hall in July.

This dinner is an opportunity for you to experience Samuel J Moore before the general public does when it opens.

Tickets are limited for this exclusive fundraiser. Come rub elbows with arts patrons, theatre lovers and foodies.

As this is a charitable donation TAX RECEIPTS will be available for $75.
Tickets can be purchased online for $100 at: http://www.eventbrite.ca/org/1121096121
Cocktails will be served at 6pm, followed by dinner service at 7pm.
The Great Hall – 1087 Queen Street West

For more information visit summerworks.ca

Mount Sinai Soiree

The Mount Sinai Soiree

Young professionals gathered at Maro for the Mount Sinai Soiree for a night of black-tie chic, fashion and opulence. The Sinai Soiree showcased lingerie from Italian fashion house Cosabella and luxury shapewear line, ResultWear.  Models from Scene Queen and Nuvo Burlesque delivered tantalizing performances.

Ben Mulroney, anchor of ETalk on CTV, opened the elegant black-tie evening with his own personal reflections on the importance of fundraising for women’s health and cancer research at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Knowing that Food Dudes were going to be there, we knew it would be a great night.  The liquid nitrogen chocolate truffles were an interesting indulgence that we hadn’t seen from them before.

Future Sinai (@futuresinai on Twitter), a division of the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary, is a group of young professionals  who work to advance, promote and fundraise for Mount Sinai Hospital.  For this year, Future Sinai collaborated with Leadership Sinai (demographic of professionals aged 30 to 45).

The event raised $67,296 for Mount Sinai Hospital with more than 400 guests in attendance.

About the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary

The Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary was founded in 1953 to assist Mount Sinai Hospital with raising funds and community
awareness to provide the best patient care. Through special events and fundraising programs, the Auxiliary is one of the largest single donors to Mount Sinai Hospital.

About Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital is an internationally recognized, 472-bed acute care academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Toronto. It is known for excellence in the provision of compassionate patient care, innovative education, and leading-edge research. Mount Sinai’s Centres of Excellence include: Daryl A. Katz Centre for Urgent & Critical Care; Frances Bloomberg Centre for Women’s & Infants’ Health; Christopher Sharp Centre for Surgical Oncology; Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Centre for Musculoskeletal Disease and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. For more information about Mount Sinai Hospital, please visit www.mountsinai.ca

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