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LCBO alerts province: people like to drink in good weather

Excellent weather: we'll drink to that (Image: Stephen_Parker)

The Toronto Star‘s Weather360 blog has an interesting post up about something near and dear to our hearts: the great weather this summer has, crazily enough, got Ontarians in a more high-spirited mood than average. And just to be clear, by high-spirited, we mean drinking:

Here’s how busy the bartender at Toronto’s Black Bull Tavern is: When asked if the Queen West establishment has been swamped this summer, he said he was too busy to answer the question and hung up.

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Bier Markt spearheads white asparagus cuisine and umlaut abuse

Gus are us: Bier Markt cheers for the white stalks (Photo by Niall Kennedy)

'Gus are us: Bier Markt cheers for the white stalks (Photo by Niall Kennedy)

As restaurants across the city put the emphasis on local ingredients, the Bier Markt becomes the bad boy of culinary correctness by featuring—gasp!—an imported vegetable throughout the month of May. The sixth annual White Asparagus “Feastivül” (the restaurant’s affinity for excessive umlauts doesn’t diminish even though the asparagus is from France) is the brainchild of Bier Markt’s “culinary think tank,” says Robert Medal, one of the restaurant’s owners. In keeping with the beer emporium’s Dutch influence, white asparagus is a seasonal obsession because the Netherlands is a major producer of the “blönde” crop.

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