The Toronto International Film Festival has officially begun, and as usual, the media are all agog over the celebrities in our midst. The Globe and Mail, for example, has landed the “big scoop” that George Clooney was slumming it at Yorkville’s Il Posto.
(Is it even possible to “slum it” in Yorkville, Toronto’s swankiest shopping district? My sense is that no, it isn’t, but then again, to my experience, neither is it possible to eat terribly well, especially now that Truffles at the Four Seasons has served its last plate.)
And so begins the deluge of so-and-so ate here and minor-celebrity-you’ve-never-heard-of ate there. About which I personally couldn’t give even the slightest. What I would like to know, though, is who is drinking what, and where. Big ticket bottles of wine at dinner are probably a given, but what craft beers at Volo or beerbistro, cutting-edge cocktails at Barchef, or a pint of fine cask-conditioned bitter at The Granite? Are any of our visiting stars and starlettes imbibing well beyond the sanctified confines of Yorkville?
Serious drinks folk want to know…
