I had hit the little snatch of bars that I do so enjoy and sunday's lineup was more or less a wandering one... victory cafe, granite and three brewers... with a good handful of touristy stuff and more graffiti, cause it was there.

the morning consisted of a farmers market, cool hand of a girl (breakfast), and some stuff down that way... and shooting graf till my heart was content...

then i did some touristy wandering, where i just put navigation away and just wandered for a few hours till I realized it was time that stuff would be opening for bizness.

going to victory cafe is a trifecta.. you get the beguiling and surrounding stores (substitute shoe museum for beguiling if you are a chick), you get honest ed's, and you get victory with one of the better outdoor seating for a good beer establishment i've had in some days... beautiful day, good beer had... county durham hophead ipa on cask was good, f&m pilsner was decent. grabbed some reading material at beguiling, so it was soak in the shade, beer and reading...

Wandering around the bathhurst stop is key in my opinion... the area's got a berkeley vibe. Stuff going on, things to do...

after that I thought I needed to stroll the downtown as last I had been here, I did that, but with a schedule and ajenda, and sometimes you miss the details when shackled with a schedule... so using the subway... i'd get off a stop walk to the next stop, do a two by two block square sweep and just people watch and skulk the area enjoying all that I saw... and did... the nice part about revisiting a town you've been to before is that minor sense of familiarity you have and recognizing things that are familiar or sort of familar to you... I'll be back to toronto and explore it more I think.

so wandering the downtown, I ran into 3 brewers... when a brewery presents itself in your wandering, there's not much resistance but to go in and drink... tho I had reservations at this one... it's okay... I tried samples till I found something i wanted... I ended up settling on their blonde ale... it was clean... but their beer reminded me of amsterdam brewing which is as average as they come in toronto... I'd say that if you are close and have time to get a sampler and go... this place may leave you with a "thank god that's all I ordered..." feeling... but the beer's okay.

so from there... a tad more wandering till i headed north on the subway and hit granite... right next to a cheese shop btw. and sat down in their establishment... very british... the beer garden is nice. The mild and the ipa that I had were good. It too was a nice place to have a beer and drink... can you find their beer on tap around town... yeah... but they have 3 handpulls which makes this stop in more worth your time than 3 brewers... english faire is what you can expect tho... good and worth it overall... Lcbo near the subway station.

Today was that first day I felt like winding down early, partly from all the walking I had been doing round town, partly cause I was on day 4 of what was turning out to be a drinking vacation and partly cause the sidetrack of the downtown reminded me that being on vacation, i could decide to do nothing and it was just as enjoyable as not... and there was a pool back at my hotel so... a little more wandering, a little more touristy stuff and I headed back round 8 or so... called it a night after and hour or so in the pool.

dinner at the hoof cafe was well worth the time. recommended...