Travel news: Get engaged at an iconic landmark, find Canada’s best restaurants, raise a glass at Toronto’s historic hotel bar

Romcom worthy

NYC’s Empire State Constructing not too long ago launched “Happily Ever Empire,” the place the smitten can pop the query in a devoted nook of the 86th-floor observatory — and toast with a bottle of bubbly afterwards. The expertise additionally comes with a personal guided tour of the artwork deco skyscraper, in addition to entry to the 102nd-floor observatory for Instagrammable photograph ops and iconic metropolis views. Priced at $1,000 U.S. per couple, the package deal is a not-so-modest proposal.

Vacation spot eating

Air Canada’s newest record of Canada’s Finest New Eating places is now out. The roundup is unranked for 2021, as an alternative naming winners in particular classes, together with Finest High-quality Eating (Toronto’s personal French gem Pompette), Finest Bar Eating (JinBar, Calgary’s Korean‑fashion fried rooster and pizza joint), Finest Trailblazer (Tropikàl Restobar, a Pan‑Caribbean spot in Montreal) and Finest Lodge Restaurant (Terre, contained in the Alt Lodge in St. John’s, NL). See all of the winners at canadasbestnewrestaurants.com.

Elevating the bar

At Toronto’s historic Fairmont Royal York, the not too long ago revamped and reopened Library Bar is prepared for our return to hobnobbing over nightcaps. Tucked in a stealth, easy-to-miss nook of the grand resort, the cocktail den has been refashioned with a contemporary spin on Roaring Twenties fashion — velvet, fringe, patterns and pops of color. On the reimagined menu is the potent signature drink, the Birdbath Martini, made along with your alternative of Quill gin or vodka, and poured for you slightly theatrically tableside.

Festive spirit

The Charlottetown Christmas Festival is again (Nov. 12 to Dec. 19), with plans each new and traditional. Store the Victorian Christmas Market (Atlantic Canada’s largest open-air market, Nov. 26 to twenty-eight) or the weekend Peake’s Wharf Christmas Village, convey your children for horse and wagon rides, or take within the merry reside music, among the many many actions.

State-of-the-art

Hong Kong’s extremely anticipated M+ has simply opened to the general public. With 17,000 sq. metres of exhibition house and 33 galleries, it’s one of many largest museums of contemporary and modern visible tradition anyplace. Admission might be free to all guests for the primary yr. The landmark is a part of the West Kowloon Cultural District, a brand new arts quarter on 40 hectares of reclaimed land by Victoria Harbour. Coming quickly to the identical district: the Hong Kong Palace Museum, slated to open subsequent yr.

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