Toronto
Award-winning molecular cocktail bar. Refined post-office crowd from 6pm; the smoke-and-mirrors drinks programme is genuinely innovative.
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Tell-the-bartender-what-you-want concept. No menu, daily-rotating cocktail flights, post-work crowd through 10pm.
Hidden-courtyard bar in the Kensington Mall. Sidewalk seating in summer, Asian-leaning food, post-work locals.
Spanish-leaning restaurant-bar with serious cocktail programme. Sidewalk seating, charcuterie, post-work into dinner.
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