OG BOTTLE SHOP: A BEER LOVER’S ULTIMATE DESTINATION
WORDS BY CAI SEPULIS; PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘I’ll take one of everything, apparently,’ I quip to my TOQUE Partner (and partner-in-crime) Chris w…
WILLIBALD’S BIERGARTEN: MY FAVOURITE PLACE – AS IF ANYONE NEEDS REMINDING
WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘I wonder whether Byron’s going to mind my fanboying this time?,’ I ask my TOQUE partner Cai Sepulis as I take …
INTRODUCING WELLINGTON SPARKLING HOP WATER: IT’LL GO ANYWHERE YOU DO
QUESTIONS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN; ANSWERS BY MARVIN DYCK Have you ever wanted to taste the hoppy goodness of your favourite craft brew witho…
ST JACOBS FARMERS’ MARKET: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
WORDS BY CAI SEPULIS; PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘I still can’t believe that all this food is available at the Market,’ I exclaim to my TOQUE Partner…
WINE SOMMELIERS
The TOQUE team knows its craft beer – not so much its wine. What to do? We gathered three of our region’s wine personalities and asked them all about …
SAUSAGEFEST
Summertime is hot dog time. And while we might embrace the practice of bbqing a few wieners on the backyard grill as a seasonal rite of passage, there…
LA FONTANA: ELORA’S SECRET GARDEN
WORDS BY CAI SEPULIS; PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘I had no idea all this was back here,’ my TOQUE Partner (and partner-in-crime) Chris Tiessen remarks…
BEER TO BEER: CYCLING FROM FIXED GEAR TO ELORA BREWING COMPANIES
WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘This sure beats our regular morning ‘zoom’ meetings, eh?,’ I grunt to my TOQUE Partner, Cai Sepulis, as we cyc…
PATIO HOPPING: EXPLORING POP-UP SPACES IN THE DTK.
WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN 'Back in the day, you couldn’t pay me enough to get me to walk down these alleys at this time of night,' I say,…
SAY CHEESE: THREE FROMAGERIES THAT BLESS THIS REGION OF OURS
WORDS BY DANI KUEPFER; PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN For this TOQUE assignment, I was tasked with searching out a few of our region’s great fromageries. …
DOWNTOWN CAMBRIDGE: A SLICE OF EUROPE RIGHT HERE AT HOME A SLICE OF EURO
WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘Visiting Downtown Cambridge always reminds me of traveling in Europe,’ I remark to my fiancée, Liz, as I guid…
APRÈS LOCKDOWN: A GREAT ESCAPE TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘We’re getting close,’ I announce to Cai as we round another bend and turn from paved highway down a …