Company Dancers Alanna McAdie and Yosuke Mino; Photo by Samanta Katz

Pharmacist Glen Rawluk wanted to keep Meyers Drugs locally owned so much, he bought the place.

Mark Turner doesn’t look like the person you may picture when you conjure up an image of a tea room proprietor – and the Amsterdam Tea Room is no dusty cliché either.

Since Melanie Bernadsky of Freshcut Downtown taught her first Beer and Botany class in 2015, the concept has really taken root.

Borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbour is commonplace. But it’s rare when a neighbour comes knocking for a sourdough starter to add to a batch of beer.

When the facade of the Scott Block, a century-old office building at 272 Main Street, was uncovered a few years ago, Bryan Goertz envisioned something spectacular in that space.

Luke Nolan knows noggins. Whether yours is a small, average, or an orange-on-a-toothpick, Sputnik-sized noggin, his Exchange District shop has a style that will capture your cranium …and your personal style.