The Distillery District in Toronto

http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/

Drink Mill Street Beer brewed on premises, eat at any of the 6 restraunts, listen to live bands on the outside stage(s), smoke shisha/sheesha from a hookah and relax.

Simply said - The Distillery District is an amazing place to tour some of Toroto's rich history, eat, drink, go to the spa, shop, and see a festival or special event happening in the city. Depending on your travel dates you can find out what's happening here: http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/festivals.html

HISTORY

1831 - James Worts established a grist mill.
1837 - Whiskey Production begins
1850 - Addition of flour mills, a wharf, the distillery, storehouses, an ice house, a cooper shop and a dairy.
1859 - construction of the new Gooderham and Worts Distillery on Mill Street east of Parliament
1869 - a huge fire destroyed the wooded interior of the main building but left the grey limestone exterior intact.
1957 - Gooderham & Worts stopped producing rye whiskey. It concentrated instead on the distilling of rum products.
1990 - after 153 years of continuous production, the Distillery became the number one film location in Canada, and the second largest film location outside of Hollywood.
2001 - Cityscape Holdings Inc. and Dundee Realty Corporation purchased The Distillery
2003 - The Distillery was officially reopened, thereby implementing an ambitious plan by the owners to create a pedestrian only village; entirely dedicated to arts, culture and entertainment.

RESTRAUNTS

Mill Street Brew Pub
The Boiler House
Archeo Pizza & Pasta House
Café Uno
Perigee Restraunt
Pure Spirits Oyster House & Grill
Balzac's Coffee

HOOKAH RENTALS

Check MAP OF THE DISTRICT below - the stage and hookah vendor is located below "the paint shop" on the map.

You need to make sure there is someone performing on the stage that night, the people supplying the Hookah's and shisha/sheesha attend these nights providing the hookah services with over 20 types of flavoured tobacco to the crowd listening to the Jazz/cuban-fusion/blues/BigBand/etc music. You can only smoke outside near the stage in the courtyard and they rent you the hookah for your duration of the bands performace which lasts from about 4PM to 11:30PM or all day, depending on the event. Extra tobacco rocks cost $20 for 2.

Saturday Night's the night I usually go, the patio is packed with people drinking beer, listening to the bands, and few people smoking the hookah(s). The age range varies from 22 to 65+ - lots of people go out for dinner in the distillery then sit outside for drinks, socialize and listen to good music. My friends and I on the other hand, I eat at home and come down to the distillery for pre-cocktail cocktails (meaning drinking before pre-drinking), get hammered then go to a club or bar downtown after 6 pitchers of Mill Street Organic.

MAP OF THE DISTRICT
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