Char No 5

The Delta hotel's bar, Char No. 5, is tucked away to be free from the florescent lights of stereotypical hotel lobby. Dark and musky, the bar seems to wrap itself in the qualities of its attributed drink: whisky. If your experience with whisky has been ho-hum, this is the place to shake things up (or at least place them on the rocks). The diversity of flavour in this grain mash is amazing and you can sip on a grassy or austere blend while nibbling on whisky maple jerky as a fine, albeit chewy, pairing. Charcuterie and cheese and smokey corn dogs allow you to be as high or lowbrow as you like. Whisky cocktails range from the classics (Manhattan) to inventive new offerings (Toronto, with bitters, rye, char no. 5, brown sugar, Fernet branca and orange zest). They are convinced that you will walk out loving whisky. Challenge accepted.