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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pei on July 18, 2001, 06:18:00 PM
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Any Canucks out there:
I'm heading to Toronto for a few days next week. Can anybody recommend any good watering holes in the downtown area and any especially good beers I should try while I'm there? Also any recommendations on touristy things to do would be great.
Thanks
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especially good beers I should try while I'm there?
1. Pilsner Strong
2. Rickards Red
3. Alexander Kieths India Pale Ale
4. Sleeman -- Cream beer.
5. Molson Canadian
6. Kokanee
7. Labatt Blue
All Canuck beer kicks bellybutton over the mule piss they drink south of the 49th.
As fer Toronto...even though it's the cernter of the universe I have never been there :)
Skernsk
Fat Drunk Bastards
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If you like micro brewery beers, I would suggest going to a place called C'Est What... its on the SE corner of Front and Church (and yes it is downtown)... they have something like 21 different micro brewery beers on tap :eek: ...
you should also try a beer call SteamWhistle... its pretty good...
Some touristy things to do include:
1) Eaton's Center (big shopping mall)
2) Skydome (where the BlueJays and the Argo's play)
3)AirCanada Center (where the Maple Leafs and the Raptors play), they have their own brewery inside as well...
4) CN Tower (worlds tallest free standing structure) and beside the skydome
5) Try walking along Queen St.... if you like people watching and listening to live bands in small bars...
If you're traveling with kids or family, try the Ontario Science Center (not really downtown though), Casa Loma (a famous castle built in Toronto)...
Actaully try going to
Toronto's own website (http://www.toronto.com) They have plenty of things in there that you can look at... if you have any questions about T.O. let me know and I'll try to answer them for ya... :)
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Try going to China-Town if you like good food.Best beer is Sleeman's Cream Ale.HMV for new CD's and lots of great used CD's/books stores to spend your $$'s on if that's your thing.But if you want to travel 45 minutes west to Hamilton,they have The Canadian Aviation Historical Museum.There you will find a great collection on vintage and WW2 AC including an F4U,Spitfire and North America's only Flying Lancaster where you can climb inside and take pictures.(Don't know the flight schedule).Great souvenir shop too. ;)
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Its been a while since I was there, so none of these may still be around, but the Amsterdam Brew Pub and its sister the Rotterdam were good. Garnarvas Restaurant (on Jarvis St if memory serves, does great seafood - Central American style). Vines is a nice little wine bar - great selection and good noshes. Do take a stroll along Queen Street, from Yonge to Bathurst. And there should still be some nice places around St. Lawrence Center. Oh- and take the ferry out to Centre Island too - its a nice outing.
- Yoj
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They also have a neat park there that includes a "Lanc on a stick" and a ex Tribal class destroyer the HMCS Haida that took part in the Narvik destroyer battles on up through Korea.
Charon
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The Lanc on a stick was removed last year.<Snif>
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Someone suggested:
5. Molson Canadian
6. Kokanee
7. Labatt Blue
Do NOT drink these they are swill!
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Couldn't agree with you more Nash!!!
Besides, if I wanted to drink donkey piss, I'd drink American beer
:p
[ 07-19-2001: Message edited by: WizOfClay ]
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Originally posted by Nash:
Someone suggested:
5. Molson Canadian
6. Kokanee
7. Labatt Blue
Do NOT drink these they are swill!
We know you smoke dope Nash...but you don;t have to demonstrate how many brain cells you have killed :p
I love those and any beer.....thought the American would like to try them all :)
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<<thought the American would like to try them all >>
lol
I'm a brit, temporarily exiled to the colonies :).
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Learn to use the term "Eh?" at the end of your sentences alot, it'll cover your Roman accent,er, I mean, British accent .
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Take off, eh! Ya hoser!
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Originally posted by Nash:
Someone suggested:
5. Molson Canadian
6. Kokanee
7. Labatt Blue
Do NOT drink these they are swill!
Nash is absolutely correct. With all the great microbreweries there is no reason to try these beers. I suggest Hart Festive Brown.
If you want the watermelon knocked out of you try 'Fin du Monde' or 'Maudite(sp?)'. :D
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Thrawn is from Ottowa and is pushing the micro - brew as a pathetic attempt to advance his political career from Jean Chretien's shoe shine boy to his oil boy. :D
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Thanks gentlemen,
I just got back, 20lbs heavier than when I went and my liver is clamouring for a two week vacation at a health spar to recover.
I took quite well to Sleemans and Amsterdam as session beers.
Thrawn: Fin du Monde occasionally makes it a cross the pond to the UK and I spend a happy afternoon drinking it at a bbq some years ago. I did however spend one night on the Quebec Unibraue beers (hope I spelled that correctly) including Maudite. As I recall they were very good but the world went away at some point so a detailed comparison is not available :).
To anyone interested in beer I highly recommend Smokeless Joe's in Toronto - they keep something in excess of 200 different beers. I spent a number of hazy evenings there.
By the way, why do Canadians waste a perfectly good Bloody Mary by putting clams in it?
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Glad you had a good time Pei. I've been hitting the beer pretty hard myself recently (celebrating my promotion to Chretien's oil boy) :D
As for Clamato...I have no freaking idea. Must have come from Cape Breton.
[ 07-31-2001: Message edited by: Thrawn ]
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Bloody Ceasars rule!
Don't know Smokless Joe's - must be after my time, but that beer selection sounds like the Amsterdam. Anyway, glad you had a good time. Sounds like T.O. is still a great town.
Yoj