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| - Disclosure: I work for Yelp, and Yelp has hosted an event here. I went to the event, but we also popped in on a separate occasion.
Toronto, I sense a theme: you're nice in many ways. And, nice not in the traditional colloquialism of "awww, that's nice," nice in the you're in fact really nice people, you know a nice space when you see one, and how to create one. You're giving the word nice a good name.
Speaking of... The Samuel J Moore is a goddamn name for a bar or what. Damn good. I'm not ashamed at all to say that I find a kinship to the time between 1837-1901, and especially the latter years. I'd probably name a beautiful baby Victoria I dig it so much, and that I firmly believe that era still exists today in a few forms, one being a space like this one. Refinement, calmness, openness, grace and goodwill in the way this place does it thing. The entire team that runs this place, from Derek to Dov (Hebrew for "Bear"), this team knows what it takes to run an establishment that is respectful to time, and what it means to be a dining companion as a restaurant. There aren't many spaces that I could say are a true companion where I can dine alone, but this is one. A dozen oysters for a dozen dollars and a glass of pastis at about 5pm at the marble bar makes for the perfect acquaintance.
If I sat back to drum up what a dining establishment looked and felt like, including the "yeah, we have a CD DJ machine" to that La Marzocco Mistral machine that looks like a 1972 Lotus or Saab Sonnett -- which by the way... that Mistral costs more than those cars combined and is worth going in to look at alone -- this is the way I'd create a space to continue the modern Victorian fair. But mine in no way couldn't be as nice as this one.
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