février 19th, 2010
Don't Cry for Me
The city has coffee bars and tea lounges aplenty, but where to go for an energy boosting shot of yerba mate?
Look no further than El Almacen, Toronto’s first yerba mate café. Made from the leaves of a tree that’s in the same family as holly, Argentina’s national drink tastes a bit like green tea and is loaded with anti-oxidants.
At Almacen, your mate is served in a traditional cured gourd with a bombilla (a filter-tipped metal straw) to sip it from.
Mate can be drunk at any time of the day, but the most important part of the tradition is that it’s drunk en masse.
Get your Gaucho and head on over.
El Almacen, 1078 Queen St. W., Toronto, 416-516-2898.
