Amada is a great idea, better than Tangerine, IMO. I recommend the artichoke and machengo flatbread and the octopus. I also suggest trying one of their Pedro Almodóvar film-titled tails, like the pineapple and cachaca "All About...

Save yourself the trouble-make caipirinhas, the Brazilian drink instead. Muddle lime with sugar, pour in cachaca, mix with ice in a shaker, pour into a glass. Pitu, the popular Brazilian brand, should be readily available,...

There are a couple of Brazilian stores on College near Dovercourt. They definitely have Guarana. Also try Dundas West, west of Bathurst. Sorry I don’t know the names. You might like to know that the LCBO carries one brand...

I’ve been traveling to Brasil since the 80’s and have always enjoyed that drink. It’s interesting how things have evolved. When I first went there, I was not too fond of Cachaca so would order a...

I went several weeks ago. When I arrived at the bar I was served a very good cachaca based fruity drink by a very good natured and friendly bartender, but once I was seated the meal went from bad to worse. They have a bizarre...

general topics board), but I’ll give you three secrets I learned in Rio: 1. use good cachaca (pronounced, btw, kuh SHAH suh). If it doesn’t taste good straight, don’t make drinks with it. 2. pound the limes like...

soda). Then, I had some cachaca tails that I really liked, and tasted cachaca straight, which is supposedly rum, and it was wonderful. This lead me to premium rums in general. I had always looked askance at expensive rums, but now...

Cachaça is the correct spelling. You might have more luck finding it with that spelling. The LCBO has a very handy interface for searching for a specific product (link below) and which stores currently have stock. Search results...

feel a little macho after taking a shot of “tequila con vivora.” In Brazil they have cachaca with a snake inside the bottle called “pinga de cobra”.I’m planning on bringing some back when I go to...

. We walk in with three bottles of cachaça, the white spirit of Brazil that is like rum’s older brother. Glasses appear and one of the bottles disappears to the back, where we hear a blender whirring, turning the...

How about some fresh muddled mint? Or some Lichido Lychee Liqueur? Or a dash of Leblon Cachaca and ginger syrup?

The only things I think you can be pretty much assured of, in the abstract, are cane based liquors like rum & cachaça and most brandy. Like vodka, gin isn’t grain-based by definition, but usually is in practice. On the...

), and at the very least you can pick up a nice homemade quindim or a Sonha da Valsa. If you want to cook, you can buy things there or just up the street at Pepe’s #2, just south of Fullerton (2400 North). Also Pepe’s...

someone I know mentioned: "There’s a place on Belmont and Western (Pepe’s) which sells different kinds of cachaca, along with guarana, Xingu beer, and other Brazilian specialties. They have a full butcher in the back who...

. The menu is very simple: feijoada (Brazilian black bean and meat stew served with manioc flour, rice, collards, fried yuca, plantain, and orange slices) and caipirinha (a sort of Brazilian margarita made with fermented...