So we came Toronto again with the idea of exploring a little more. We even had a little napkin with a hand-drawn map of the area and where to go from a Torontonian at McMaster. We made for the hostel in Chinatown to firstly to drop our bags off and then freely explore the area but encountered a slight problem with the hostel as we hadn't received the booking number so we couldn't stay there (we didn't want to anyway, screw them). As you can see from the photo below it wasn't The Ritz.
So we made our way back downtown (DT) through the funky fashion district of Toronto and dipped in and out of vintage and high street stores until we made it to Spring Rolls because we were starving by this point. All you can eat Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese sounded very good so we stopped off and stuffed ourselves with food.
After eating we met up with the rest of the gang and moved onto the distillery district. It was quite a distance away so we jumped on a tram (streetcar) and made our way east.
So Gooderham and Worts used to own the distillery which comprises of 10 streets and 40 buildings and it was once the largest distillery in the world! It's now a National Historic Site of Canada and has lots of cafes, boutiques, art galleries with a cool nostalgic vibe.
Of course we couldn't leave without trying some of the beer from the brewery itself, Mill St. now has a small brewery there and we each bought a taster set of 10 small glasses with everything from stouts to strawberry beer.
After the distillery district we head over to Kensington Market on the other side of town to check that out and see the other hostel that the guys were staying in.
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So their hostel was amazing, it had a rooftop bar (though it was rather cold) with a little party going on and of course Giant Jenga. We head home after wandering back through Kensington past a few jazz bars, a good finish to a fun day.
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