Entertainment With a Whole New Taste!™

Wine & Chocolate Pairing and Workshop with Chocolate Tales   at 747 Wine Bar at 747 Queen St E.  Pairing wine and chocolate is a match made in heaven for the foodie and wine connoisseur wrapped in one. Just as with wine, chocolate presents a complexity of flavors and textures, with the potential for subtle changes with each new batch of chocolate. Learning how to appreciate the subtlety and complexity of flavors that both wine and chocolate have, as well as being able to pair them well, is a most enjoyable hobby.  Chocolate Tales  teams up with Malivoire Winery and 747 Wine Bar to bring you an unforgettable experience.   Please visit here to register for the workshop or contact 747 Wine Bar at 416 778 9988 to reserve a table.

Chocolate Tales will feature White, Dark and Light Chocolate Truffles for their Wine Pairings

Wine & Chocolate with Chocolate Tales at 747 Wine Bar is part of Riverside Wine FEST .  From April 13 – 19th you are invited to experience an Ontario Wine Tour in your backyard when  award winning wineries and growers from Prince Edward County and Niagara Wine Region are come to Toronto for Riverside Riverside Wine FEST. For more details and to pre-register for FREE Wine Tastings and Seminars and  to reserve space for Wine Dinners, Prix Fixe Dinners, Wine Crawl, Cheese & Cheers and Wine & Chocolate Seminar visit here:

On April 22, celebrate A Taste For Life and  join Lynne Patterson and Megan Sheppard at Tabule Middle Eastern Cuisine at 810 Queen St East in Riverside  in supporting Fife House, an organisation providing residential programs and housing services to men, women and families living with HIV/AIDS.

Fife House is a wonderful organisation, which supports so many people in the Toronto area with services that are not otherwise available.  For more information visit there website: www.fifehouse.org

Taste for Life is Wednesday April 22nd.  Participating restaurants donate a percentage of their sales to Fife House.

Bring your friends, have a great meal and help Fife House at the same time.

Your Hosts:Lynne Patterson and Megan Sheppard  at Tabule, 810 Queen St East.

Please make a reservation for Tuesday Apr 22 at www.tabule.ca or 416 465 2500; please mention Taste for Life.

About Megan Sheppard

Megan Sheppard

Megan Sheppard is a Realtor but not your conventional kind. She stems from three generations of realtors serving the Riverdale, Leaside, Leslieville and the Beaches neighborhood. Her father Kent Sheppard, who is the most important influence in her career as a Realtor is one of the founders and owners of RE/MAX Hallmark.

She describes the core of what she does as transforming clients’ lives from one stage to another; with a host of clients ranging from first time buyers to seniors. Her innate ability to communicate and care about people gave her the inspiration to collaborate with the Riverside IGNITE 2015 WalkFEST to organize Megan’s Boot and Coat Drive.

Megan came up with this idea while driving her clients and noticed that there were a lot of homeless people without shoes or mismatched shoes. This inspired her not only to collect boots but also coats for the fall and winter seasons. Giving back is very important to Megan because of her belief of “Paying it forward” and her endless love for people across all walks of life.

Besides her career as a Real Estate agent, she is also a certified Massage Therapist and Yoga instructor, a world traveler and loves to collect rocks. Her dream in life is to someday open a retreat centre.

is a Realtor Riverside Resident, Artist Network Supporter, Heritage Enthusiastic and Jack Korman Memorial Award Winner Lynne Patterson is co-hosting  alongside Re/Max

About Lynne Patterson

Lynne is a long time Riverside Resident and volunteer, and  a recipient of the Riverside BIA Jack Korman Award for Volunteerism.  Lynne was involved in establishment of the Artist Network; has leadership roles in community theatre groups;is the Riverside Representative for the PanAm Games Committee; has led neighbourhood Art Walks, Janes Walks and History Walks.  She is involved with the Wardell Degrassi Cummings Neighbourhood Assoc and believes in giving back!  She has been a driver behind many Riverside events including:  Riverside Antler Breakfast, Riverside Eats & Beats, Riverside WineFEST and more.

Tuesday April 14 . 5 – 7pm – FREE Wine Tasting and “Discover Bouquets”  Sensory Event at Quince Flowers at 660 Queen St E.

Riverside WineFEST April 13 – 19

Shop owner, artisan florist and wine enthusiast Rosemary Jeffares (Rosie)  teams up with guest Sommeliers for a sensory experience pairing floral notes from the Wine,  with the beauty of flowers, and demonstrates  how floral details can convey your style from low-key elegance, to nostalgic, fun, or formal. This is an opportunity to  “try and buy” wines from some of Ontario’s finest Wine Growers – many not available at the LCBO.   Sommeliers and Winery Hosts will be on hand to take wine orders and arrange for delivery. Thanks to Il Ponte Cucina Italiana for  providing locally sourced , delicious and nutritional authentic Italian  food.

Quince is staffed by artists who use flowers and your vision as their raw materials.

About Rosemary Jeffares, Shop Owner

As a grad student in England, Quince founder under unearthed her love of all things botanic while moonlighting, cleaning flowers at dawn to help pay the rent. Stripping, cutting, and bundling blooms into market bunches and hand tied bouquets, she found her fine arts career re-directed by the romance and peace of working with flowers. That presence informs our approach to everything we do at Quince.

Rosie is interested in good people, great communities, growing flowers in the backyard, tea drinking, book reading, and nesting with her wife Monica and their two growing boys.  She welcomes visitors to our shop, enquiries, and collaborations of all sorts.  Rosie is thrilled to be part of Riverside WineFEST.

Discover “Bouquest” and Free Wine Tasting is part of Riverside Wine FEST .  From April 13 – 19th you are invited to experience an Ontario Wine Tour in your backyard when  award winning wineries and growers from Prince Edward County and Niagara Wine Region are come to Toronto for Riverside Riverside Wine FEST. For more details and to pre-register for FREE Wine Tastings and Seminars and  to reserve space for Wine Dinners, Prix Fixe Dinners, Wine Crawl, Cheese & Cheers and Wine & Chocolate Seminar visit here:

Riverside WineFEST April 13 – 19

On Wednesday April 15th  4 – 6 pm  – join our  Toast to “Vintage”  with Vintage Finds and  FREE Wine Tastings at Guff Vintage and Custom Furniture (1 Davies Ave).  GUFF Vintage and Custom Furniture is hosting one of Ontario’s Finest Wineries in their brand new home in Riverside. This the perfect combination of   vintage wine, vintage design and a good bargain.   Take advantage of  this opportunity to   “try and buy” wines from some of Ontario’s finest Wine Growers – many not available at the LCBO.   Sommeliers and Winery Hosts will be on hand to take wine orders and arrange for delivery. Thanks to Il Ponte Cucina Italiana for  providing locally sourced , delicious and nutritional authentic Italian  food.

What is vintage?

The term vintage relates primarily to wine and is an altered form of the French word vendage, meaning “the grapes picked during a season.” One of its secondary definitions is “a period of origin or manufacture.  An item described as ‘vintage’ should speak of the era in which it was produced and can also mean (and probably always should) that the item exhibits the best of a certain quality, or qualities, associated with or belonging to that specific era. 

About GUFF Vintage and Custom Furniture: 

Guff has built up a loyal following of customers who love both vintage design and a good bargain.  Owner John Jakeman believes in ” getting  cool stuff to the masses. If you come in and want to spend $300, we have something for $300 – it doesn’t have to be $3000.”   Jakemen recently opened up GUFF’s brand-new home in Riverside, and is finally able to do the massive, ever-changing selection of vintage furniture justice.

Guff Vintage Furniture

The larger pieces give GUFF and its bargain pricing a real opportunity to shine. Many of the older items are lovingly refinished (a feat now made easier thanks to their brand-new on-site workshop).  Of course, by the time you read this, they might be gone – so it pays to keep checking back. “The one thing that a lot of people say about our store is that they come every week, because they know it looks different every week,” Jakeman says. “It’ll never look the same two weeks in a row. That is definitely our business model – is to get it in here, move it, price it better than anyone else, sell it, and on to the next thing.”

Vintage Finds and Free Wine Tasting is part of Riverside Wine FEST .  From April 13 – 19th you are invited to experience an Ontario Wine Tour in your backyard when  award winning wineries and growers from Prince Edward County and Niagara Wine Region are come to Toronto for Riverside Riverside Wine FEST. For more details and to pre-register for FREE Wine Tastings and Seminars and  to reserve space for Wine Dinners, Prix Fixe Dinners, Wine Crawl, Cheese & Cheers and Wine & Chocolate Seminar visit here: