Eatdrink #80 November/December 2019 - The Holiday Issue

28 | November/December 2019
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We also faced a more physical challenge. Can we actually fit
everyone interested into one publication? Yes we can, but we had
to change the binding to a “perfect bound” style — readers will
love this — to accommodate twice the page count. The handy size
is retained, but this guide will have far more heft. More important,
in the end, we will not only have a bigger guide, but a better guide.
I soon realized that we are creating a more diversified publication,
built on the strengths of our previous guides, but a more accurate
The Tin Fiddler & River Run Brew Co.,
Sarnia
reflection of the culinary
industry as a whole. That is
satisfying on so many levels.
Storm Stayed Brewing Co.,
London
Great Expectations
Our amazing restaurants
continue to get their due
in this guide, and we’re
able to highlight so many
of them here. Our biggest
frustration with Eatdrink
is the constraints on the
number of stories we can tell
in any one issue, which is not an issue here. Our greatest
strength with Eatdrink is the quality of our writers. Even
our BUZZ column, which could have been handled as a
laundry list of events, is engagingly assembled. While
a culinary guide is most definitely not a magazine, we
have developed a format that marries the practical