And up on Dundas Street West, Rhum Corner has exceptional rum drinks and a Caribbean-meets-the-big-city feel.
The days are filled with a unique tapestry of art, conversation, and, if your body can handle it in the exceptional heat, drinks.
For some people with exceptional tolerance, drink counting may be the only way to assess intoxication but this is not without problems.
That evening, Armenians and non-Armenians enjoyed exceptional food and drinks, and more importantly, generated $1,000 in donations, which means that two more Armenian children will not go hungry this year.
Worthy Splurge: Gravner Friuli-Venezia Giulia Breg 1998 for $285, a rare opportunity to drink this exceptional, highly unconventional bottle, made as the iconoclastic Josko Gravner was beginning a transition from fermenting wines in open wooden vats to clay amphorae.
Riding on the trend of shared plates, good affordable wine and craft cocktails, Ding Dong offers its customers an exciting menu made of Asian-inspired small plates and a wide range of drinks, including some exceptional draught wines.
Nicola Jeal said: "The Observer Food Monthly awards are now firmly established and recognised throughout the industry for identifying exceptional contributors to food and drink in the UK.
We drank a couple more exceptional wines.
One can also choose from the inn's much larger cellar, but the Rhone we drank for under $30 was an exceptional deal; it's worth asking the sommelier for a recommendation.
"I really love wine," Mrs. Beltaire remarked when I commented on the way out on the exceptional prices, "and I really want our customers to drink it and enjoy it here".
