“This renowned cocktail bar’s new menu is based on a Canadian masterpiece” by Hunter Gutman for Foodism

Snug in a plush chair at Library Bar, the Fairmont Royal York’s consummate cocktail den, I can feel the ghosts of its past swirling around me. Where smartly dressed bartenders now brandish gleaming shakers behind an attractive bar, I picture George Locke — the early 1900s chief librarian of Toronto — poring over the books he once hand-picked for the shelves. Today, he presides from a portrait above the unlit hearth. 

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