Toronto Beer Lovers

Join Lawrence, your top hatted host, for an evening of sleuthing our Toronto Reference Library.

At 5:30 pm, we will meet at the Ginger Restaurant, for some Vietnamese beer and spring rolls with vermicelli. The Ginger has been here for 30+ years, serving up hot steamy goodness.

695 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2B2

https://www.gingerone.ca/index.html

At 6:30 pmish, we will venture north up Yonge Street, to the scene of the crime, at the Toronto Reference Library

789 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4W 2G8

https://tpl.ca/locations/TRL/

All good investigations begin with detectives, so what better place to start than the study of Sherlock Holmes. We will ride the lift to the 5th floor and enter the abode on Baker Street.

Afterwards, we will return to the ground floor to take in some exhibits of 3D printing and uncover some clues on how this mysterious marvel accomplishes this.

No good investigation is complete without investigating the handwritten documents. Our last stop will be the TD Gallery.

This wraps up our crime scene, so to speak.

If you want to delve further, here are some of the places you can visit.

5th - Chinese archive
4th - Turntables and LP records
3rd - Magazines and Newspapers
2nd - Youth Zines
Ground Floor - Balzacs and Bookends

And there is a mural outside in Sherlock Holmes Walk, featuring artistic renditions by the Friends of Arthur Conan Doyle, which I have marked on the map guide.

http://acdfriends.org/SHWalk-index.html

We are following our favourite trivia host, Simon from Are You Smarter than a Scottish Guy, to one of his other weekly locations: One-Eyed Jack's at 287 Richmond Road (between John and Peter Streets). The beer selection at this location is quite minimal but their food menu is good - https://www.oneeyedjackpub.com/torontomenu. They have a $0.95 wing special with lots of flavours.

The trivia starts at 7:00pm with first question at 7:15 pm. We have a pair of tables (12 people) reserved under Steve so far. Serious RSVPs only as no-shows prevent us from fielding a complete team.

Top prizes is a gift certificate for the next visit. Other prizes are a free round for the table and nachos. There is also a small prize for best team name, so put on your creative hat; the host seems to like puns and prefers short team names.

Let's have some fun, eat some wings, and hopefully win!

Watch the championship game of the National Football League for the 2025 season. It will be played between the National Football Conference champion Seattle Seahawks and the American Football Conference champion New England Patriots.
Enjoy BEER , food and the BIG screen and the company of members new and old. Tapps is located on the south side of Danforth at Carlaw and is west of the TTC Pape subway station.

Join Lawrence, your top hatted host for a tour of some of our cultural heritage sites around Spadina Station and UofT.

At 10 am, we will meet-up at the Madison Avenue pub for a coffee, tea and a light snack.

inside VEMU Estonian Museum Canada

https://www.vemu.ca/

The entrance is just around the corner and down the stairs at 3 Madison Ave.

Here we will see the exhibit Unissued Diplomas. Never Graduated, Eternally Honoured.

“Unissued Diplomas” is a worldwide exhibition that honours the memory of 40 Ukrainian students who will never graduate because their lives were taken by the Russian full-scale invasion that started on February 24, 2022.

This exhibition aims to remind the world about the ongoing war and the price Ukrainians pay daily in their fight for freedom.

In collaboration with the Ukrainian Museum of Canada – Ontario Branch

At 11 am we will walk along Bloor Street and then North on Spadina to the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto

16 Spadina Rd, Toronto, ON M5R 2S7

https://www.ncct.on.ca/

At 11:30 am we will head south on Spadina to the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Ontario Branch.

620 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON M5S 2H4

https://www.umcontario.com/

Out front is the impressive statue to Volodymyr the Great.

Afterwards, we will walk east to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library to see their Arctic Fever exhibit; Image and Narrative in North Circumpolar Voyaging of the Long Nineteenth Century

https://library.utoronto.ca/exhibit/arctic-fever-image-and-narrative-north-circumpolar-voyaging-long-nineteenth-century

120 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 0C1

Then a beautiful walk of the UofT grounds, through the Soldiers Tower to our Winterlicious lunch at the Gallery Grill $50 for 1 pm

You will need to book through the Winterlicious portal.

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