DESIGN SAVVY Furniture designer Roy Banse’s store Fluid Living showcases an awe-inspiring selection of the world’s most stylishly useful household furnishings and accessories. Form meets fun/Volumes/Where/Art-Edit/-For Nadine/*to burn/*October High Rez 2007/You Are Here/07-10YouRhereMap.aiction at this luxe lifestyle-oriented decor den, filled with exclusive treasures, such as Georg Jensen’s home line, Lothantique soaps and made-in-Spain cherry sideboards. Bldg. 8, 416-850-4266.

LUXE EMPORIUM Rag & Bone jeans, Alife runners, limited-edition Taschen books, Neal’s Yard Covent Farm’s skin care and Lacoste togs come together at fashion-forward market mecca Lileo. The store also houses Livia, its own juice bar, stocking health-smart smoothies and wholesome sandwiches. Bldg. 35, 416-413-1410.

SAVOURY OPTIONS Check out the choice fare at restaurants like The Boiler House for grilled mains, Pure Spirits for oysters, or the inimitable Perigee. There, chef Pat Riley creates seasonal à la carte dishes and omakase (blind) menus—in a sunken open kitchen surrounded by a 38-seat dining room. Lucky foodies can observe their meal’s edible art in the making.

CRAFTY TYPES Don’t forget to visit galleries like Gibsone Jessop, Sandra Ainsley and Distill on the way to the Artists’ Studios, three floors of creative workshops and retail spaces. Take in photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics and textiles, or watch skilled flameworkers heat things up making glass beads at TANK fire + metal. For wearable art that is completely unique, cover up with Marie Josette’s one-of-a-kind, made-to-measure hand-painted, handwoven jackets and shawls. Bldg. 74.

SPIRITED EATS The Mill St. Brew Toronto’s first commercial brewery to open in more than 100 years, take-home retail beer such as organic lager and coffee porter, and pub fare. An ale-based menu of items like fresh Brewers’ Bread with aged cheddar cheese, herbed tomatoes and drizzled garlic butter, is enough to tempt any hops-loving palate. Bldg. 63, 416-681-0338.

COOL STUFF Colourful and funky industrial design novelties, tools and curiosities cover every inch of Bergo Designs. Here, you’ll find Alessi kitchenware, braided stainless-steel jewellery by Barbara Silverstein, and creations by modern trendsetters like New Design leader Philippe Starck, architect Frank Gehry and industrial designer Karim Rashid. Bldg. 47A, 416-861-1821.

STAGE RIGHT The Young Centre for the Performing Arts is home to edgy Soulpepper Theatre Company, called “the finest theatre company in the history of Toronto” by The National Post. Look for hot productions like Friedrich Schiller’s Elizabethan England-set Mary Stuart, about an invented showdown between the Virgin Queen and her arch-rival Mary Queen of Scots, or Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, starring Megan Follows (of TV’s Anne of Green Gables). Bldgs. 49 & 50, 416-866-8666.

Find Victorian industrial architecture, big-city sophistication and small-town charm at the Distillery, which extends southward from 55 Mill Street to the Gardiner Expressway, between Parliament and Cherry streets. From Union Station, travel eastbound on the 72A Pape bus or the 172 Cherry Street bus.

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Toronto Islands

The Beach

Mirvish Village

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