LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2025

HOLIDAY 2025

Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, LCBO Vanda Provato

EDITORIAL Editor Jody Dunn Drinks Editor Charlene Rooke Food Editor Eric Vellend Content Editors Jessica Huras, Victoria Walsh

Publication Coordinator Laura Jeha Publication Assistant Piper MacFadyen

ART Creative Director Cathy Cicchini Senior Designers Emilie Simpson, Rose Pereira Graphic Production Pat Turbach

CONTRIBUTORS James Chatto, Catherine Doherty, Rob Fiocca, Christina Frantzis, Lindsay Guscott, Katie Hayden, Darren Kemper, Michelle Lucas Larving, Catherine MacFadyen, Andrea McCrindle, Eshun Mott, Kris Osborne, Megan Powell, Michelle Rabin, Shelly Shnier, Christine Sismondo, Stacey Smithers, Michele Sponagle, Jordan St. John, Christopher St. Onge, James Tse, Maya Visnyei, Doug Wallace

PRODUCTION Senior Manager Andrew Lawson

Production Coordinator Sev Avakian Production Assistant Everton Smith Image Editing & Prepress Levon Gosdanian, Enhanced Pixels

SALES Publisher Leslie Bolter

GLOBETROTTING Where to travel next (and a taste before you go)

Kirby Miller, Beaches Media Services kirby@beachesmediaservices.com

LCBO prices include tax and bottle deposit and are subject to change without notice.

AVAILABLE MARCH 4

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Look for the products featured in this issue in LCBO stores and online at LCBO.com.

For general inquiries about Food & Drink magazine or information about LCBO products and policy, please visit lcbocustomercare.com, or call toll-free 1.800.668.5226 or 416.365.5900. TTY Only: 416.864.6898 or 1.800.361.3291. All advertiser applications are subject to the terms and conditions of the LCBO’s advertising agreement. Food & Drink is published five times a year by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Volume 33, Number 2. Food & Drink is printed on paper that contains 10 per cent post‑consumer fibre. Food & Drink is recyclable in communities participating in magazine recycling programs. Publication Mail Agreement No. 40064521 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Food & Drink , 100 Queens Quay East, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 0C7 ISSN 1195-5988

Not all of the wines, spirits and beers mentioned in Food & Drink will be available at all LCBO stores. Cette publication est également disponible en français.

INTERNATIONAL SANDWICHES Counter winter doldrums with globally inspired comfort food

WORLD CUPS Recreate cosmopolitan coffee styles and pastries at home

ILLUSTRATIONS: EMILIE SIMPSON

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