Gourmet Food & Wine Expo 2011

Hundreds of gourmet food and wine vendors under one roof? Not even a giant tarantula could keep us away.

Well...ok. Maybe.

Fortunately, we didn't have to battle any creepy arachnids as we skipped off to the Metro Toronto Convention Center for a heavy afternoon of eating and drinking at the annual Gourmet Food & Wine Expo.

We love the take-home tasting glasses

Six hours, $120 of sample vouchers, and numerous tastings of wine-vodka-gin-whiskey-and everything else later, we stumbled out of the exhibition hall with our bags of yawn-worthy swag - a miniature can of Motts Clamato and a couple of brochures. Terry smelled like a brewery, and Titus flirted with his new, equally-inebriated friends along the way.

We indulged so much, but here's what truly rocked our worlds:

Best sample eats: Maritime Lobsters smothered in vodka sauce & the flavourful Le Gruyère cheese from Switzerland Cheese Marketing.

Best sample drinks: A16-yr old Port from Marcay Estates & the new Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey.

Terry preps for some wine tasting action. Seven wines for $5. Could life be any sweeter?

A workshop that had nothing to do with ghosts...as Terry fortunately discovered.

As afternoon turned to night, a party atmosphere took over the packed expo, and in the words of our uber-cool friend Theodore, "The event was bangin'!".

We can't wait till next year.