Bathurst Local

but not TONIGHT. gonna chill out, eat some 🍜 hopefully we see you starting TOMORROW. i’ll point at nice things for you to consume at home. 🍶🍇🍺

also if you need to pick up earlier just DM me, I’ll be around, watching 200+ episodes of anime over the next little while.

ALSO, if you’re picking up, you can buy a hot dog 🌭 or grilled cheese 🧀 to go so that your walk home is even more exciting.

other people writing about what you do usually never goes quite right, but this write up from was the sweetest (!!!) and really warmed our hearts! we're grateful and were lucky enough to be recognized by their team as a place to go for bottles filled with tasty juice.

the acknowledgement of being just a TWO person team surviving in the midst of the pandemic [and for 7 years running] while providing people with the best prices on products we love, really hits home. trying to cut through the noise and provide a space for art in bottle form in a city full of corporations, basic tastes, sales teams, biters, multiple location businesses, investors reaping profit margins, owners who yap a lot but don't get their hands dirty often enough, marketing budgets, social media managers etc isn't easy... so this was a nice surprise.

i'm not sure who exactly wrote these words, [if it's you kate, we're touched] but a generous thank you goes out to whoever did, we felt you really captured a lot of that BL magic and what makes it special.

for sure though, 💯credit goes out two sets of groups.

to the sole owners and truly small operations and winemakers and growers that provide the wine, sake, beer and dranks that we carry. we do the paperwork, open bottles and let people know how hella tasty the goods are but we don't make the stuff. the producers we represent really do all the hard work and we're hoping they are happy with how we get their bottles into the hands of people with good taste.

the other group is all of the lovely customers past and present that realllly powered through, spent money that isn’t easy to come by and supported us to the fullest during an era where we couldn't host you inside. so many of you to thank, people from far and near, you know we appreciate you.

now, back to being the greatest bar in the world.

that's #1 if you don't know math.

anna and glenn

your American Express Black card is no longer the coolest card in your wallet, throw that s**t out probably couldn’t buy a donut with it. now our super cute gift cards are finally here after weeks of waiting because for some reason they ship from Tennessee. available on botlshop for your gifting pleasure. remember that item you were thinking about getting your loved one? well forget it, it’s garbage get them the gift of anna and glenn’s curated taste instead. you can look like a hero to your entire family and finally earn their love by getting them one of these or you can risk buying what you think is good and hand them a year of disappointment because you don’t know what they want and you never did. don’t get up, we’ll even deliver these to your buds in the Toronto area. 🥰

come try the Kozaemon - House Junmai "Goddess" sake on our tiniest front patio between 4-8pm Tuesday - Saturday. we'll be pouring 1 ounce samples for $3 while the weather is still nice. if you love it, you can pick up a bottle of this tasty sake in the hard to get 720 ml format!

wow, pleased as punch to be included on this Toronto Life list of great places to buy dranks. it's been a grind and this is a nice surprise. we're still hoping to re-open the bar next week and extend our botlshop hours as well...we'll keep you posted.

this cherry, guava, pineapple, monk fruit and vanilla sour from is great.

will probably re-open next week. will firm up details soon and post. xo

sneaky bonus case of la sorga made it's way to botlshop! if you missed the ah! ramon here's a fun affordable funk bottle for you. 🍇

we know you're at the cottage, camping or on the patio so we won't keep you but only 12 bottles of this cab sauv from The Hermit Ram out of new zealand, which is where Bret and Jemaine are from. doozy of a skin contact so get this fun bottle it before it's gone, or don't get it, it doesn't matter really what you do at this point.

Also pictured: dope field blend!

ALSO pictured, my original promo poster for Flight of the Conchords. Can't believe we still have it and it's in good shape.

This is the kind of bulls**t Murray would make them do. I miss that show.

drink your fruits. 🥭 ✨🍺