While time at the cottage traditionally goes hand in hand with water sports, barbeques, and tan time - it also shares a season with caesars, sangrias, and ice-cold Coronas.
If you happen to get bored of boatside beers, we've narrowed down the top cottage country bars to get tipsy at with your family, friends & neighbours up north.
1. World Famous Rockcliffe Tavern // 98 Bobcaygeon Rd, Minden, ON
If 'world famous' is in the name you gotta have high hopes going into this Haliburton favourite. A good old family style business since the 70's, Rockcliffe has super reasonable drink deals and an impressive list of burgers to grub on.
2. Rusty's at Blue // 150 Jozo Weider Blvd, The Blue Mountains, ON
This Collingwood classic is a great spot to visit when you're up in the mountains. Take a seat on their patio and order up some of your favourite finger foods.
3. Earl of Whitchurch Pub // 6204 Main St, Whitchurch-Stouffville, ON
The Earl does pub classics to a tee while also mixing in healthy, modern day specials. They have a weekday 4-6pm happy hour for a chance to grab craft beers for a bar-rail price.
4. Chester's Bar & Grille // 672 Goderich Street, Port Elgin, ON
If you're in Port Elgin, Chester's is a great bet. The food is always fresh, served fast, and tasty as hell. Their wrap patio is gorgeous in the summertime for friends, family and date nights!
6. The Dardenella Nightclub & Restaurant aka The Dard // 13 First Street, Wasaga Beach, ON
The Dard is legendary for their monster patio and great overall view of Wasaga Beach. Grab a pina colada in a bucket during the day or a cheap af mixed drink at their bar downstairs at night.
9. The Griffin Gastropub // 9 Chancery Lane, Bracebridge, ON
A fun local place with tooons of local beer. Everything at the Griffin is super delicious and the atmosphere is charming enough you'll want to stay 'till close.
10. The Oar and Paddle // 530 Muskoka Rd N, Gravenhurst, ON
Mmmmm homemade chips. Sign me up, baby. The Oar and Paddle has delicious comfort food classics while also offering creative gluten-free and veggie eats!
11. Muskoka on the Rocks // 2215 Hwy 60, Huntsville, ON
Serving up big portions and huge smiles, Muskoka on the Rocks works perfectly as a stop in on the way to the cottage or a much-needed good meal on the way home.
12. The Mill on Main // 50 Main St E, Huntsville, ON
The Mill on Main boasts a covered patio, live music and enough selection that you'll be wondering what on earth to eat. You'll just have to come back to try it all.
13. The KEE to Bala // 1012 Bala Falls Road, Bala, ON
Perhaps one of the most famous cottage country bars, The Kee has a special place in our hearts. Known for their drink deals on Mondays and amazing summer concerts, The Kee is a must-stop in cottage country.
Going out on a Friday night doesn't always have to be a difficult task where you spend over three hours doing your hair and makeup, only to head down to the same King St. club you normally go to.
If you're feeling for a casual and fun night on the town to get wasted with your girlfriends, then a dive bar is the spot to go. With grungy and basement-like atmospheres, pub fare and cheap drinks, the only dress code at these bars are your oldest pair of blue jeans.
This one's a Toronto classic. With crazy drinks like the red eye corona, and a menu consisting of only $5 fare, this is a regular spot for any day of the week.
With cool graphic art on the walls, you'll know you're in a typical Toronto dive bar when you're in here. With super cheap drink specials, including all drinks at $4 on Mondays, it's for the party goers on a budget.
This dive bar makes you feel right at home. The next best place to get drunk in other than home is a place where everyone makes you feel like you're chillin' back in your house.
With a forever rotating selection of beers on tap and by the bottle, this is the dive bar for those willing to switch up the drinks every Friday night. Also home to some cool and vintage decor, it almost feels like a museum at times!
What happens when dive bar meets nachos meets dance parties! This place happens! Come for the drinks and the cute themed dance parties, stay for the Mexican grub!
This is the perfect spot to have a couple of drinks, get tipsy and then talk to the cute guitarist from the band that just played. A comfortable and cozy concert venue makes a great place to get wasted!
If you're looking for drinks, getting drunk and a hell of a country time, this is the dive bar for that! Regularly catch country, fold, indie and rock bands playing while you chug that Jack and Coke!
12. Ted's Collision and Body Repair // 573 College St.
This place is nothing like what the name suggests. It's more of a body repair to repair your beaten down self with a good drink after a tough day at work. Let loose and order another round of drinks!
Open twice a week only, you can only catch this dive bar on Friday's and Saturdays. Complete with a tiki decorated bar and walls covered in posters, it's a super grungy dive bar!
This place is complete with a list of local beers that are so hip they don't even sound like the names of beers. Come here thirsty, but they'll ensure you don't leave miserable.
This nameless bar features karaoke, pub grub and hosts special video game tournaments. If you haven't done drunk karaoke yet, this is the spot for sure!
Super hip, this dive bar is all about the music. Featuring some sick local DJs, this is the place to play drinking games with your friends according to different songs.
One of the oldest dive bars in the city, the Bovine Sex Club's name can be quite misleading. Nonetheless it's the spot for the raunchiest dive bar experience, and getting drunk and dancing the night away with your friends only adds to the ratchet shenanigans!
We know you're lazy AF. So are we (lol). So we have the fix! This boozy big bowl punch is the easiest sh*t to make and it's freaking delicious. It's fruity, sweet, bubbly, and most importantly, it's alcoholic.
Skip having to wait for your jello shots to set overnight, you can make this boozy sherbet frappe punch right away...in fact as soon as you make it, we recommend that you serve it ASAP. Perfect for the impatient and lazy drinker. Cheers to a lazy summer!
INGREDIENTS
2 cups pineapple juice
1 can limeade concentrate, thawed
1 can pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
5 cups lemon lme soda
1/2 - 3/4 cups confectioner's sugar
1/2 cup Smirnoff Raspberry
1/2 cup raspberries
1/2 pineapple chunks
1/2 strawberry slices
8-10 scoops rainbow sherbet
Serves 10-12 people
PREPARATION
1. In a large punch bowl, add pineapple juice, limeade, and pink lemonade. Whisk all together until any frozen chunks are slushy.
2. Stir in lemon lime soda and confectioner's sugar until all the sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Add the fresh fruit and scoop in the rainbow sherbet and it's ready to be served!! Easy right?
You know how the saying goes, it's 5 o'clock somewhere...and you know what that means? SHOTS!
But we're not here to give you recipes on your average tequila and lime shot, we're here to take all your favourite shots, cocktails and flavours and scout out the best crazy shot ideas you've ever seen! Thanks to Tipsy Bartender, you're in for the craziest shots of your life.
If you thought jello shots were awesome, wait 'till you get a load of these watermelon margarita jello shots and more! From s'mores infused vodka shots in marshmallow shot glasses to shamrock flavoured shooters, this list of crazy shots will have you on the floor drunk AF.
We're not sure that you're ready, but we'll show you anyway 😉. Here are 11 crazy shots you have to try right now:
1. Rim the shot glass with blue frosting and then dip the frosted rim into a plate of sprinkles until covered. Then set the shot glasses aside.
2. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add the liquor and strawberry milk. Shake well.
4. Strain the mix into the shot glasses and top with whipped cream, more blue frosting, mini marshmallows, lucky charms, and more sprinkles if you like.
Clean, un-used paint brush (or very small basting brush)
Blow torch (or any exposed flame)
How to make it:
1. First to make the marshmallow shot glasses, pierce the centre of the large marshmallow with a skewer and roast the sides of the marshmallow. Make sure that you don't pierce the marshmallow all the way through.
2. Carefully hold the marshmallow and slowly remove the soft heated centre of the marshmallow.
3. Heat the chocolate chips until completely melted. Using the small brush, carefully paint the inside of the hollow marshmallow with the chocolate to seal all the edges so that it becomes waterproof!
4. Now for the vodka. In a bottle, add graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, and mini marshmallows.
5. Top the bottle with vodka and let it set for at least a day.
6. Strain the mixture and you can serve as is or chilled in the marshmallow shot glass.
7. Optional: Top it off with whipped cream!
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5. Fireball Apple Jello Shots 🍎🍎
1 Cup Hot Water
1 Pack Red Jello Mix
1 Cup Fireball Whiskey
Red Apples
Melon Scooper
How to make it:
1. Slice your apples in half and scoop out the centre with a melon scooper. Be careful not to scoop the apple too deep.
2. Boil a cup of water and add the jello powder, and mix until completely dissolved. Then add the Fireball Whiskey.
3. Pour the mixture into the apples and let it set in the fridge for 2 hours until completely set.
4. When the apple jello shots are fully solid, use a sharp knife to cut the apple halves into slices.
1. First to make the watermelon shot glasses, take the large melon scooper and scoop out 12 balls. Then use the small melon scooper and scoop out each individual ball so that it is hollow.
2. Now to make the margarita mix, muddle a slice of watermelon (without the rind) and the lime juice together. Combine the liquor with the muddled mixture and ice in a cocktail shaker, and shake well.
3. Pour the mixture into the watermelon shot glasses.
1. Add the apricot brandy, white rum, gold rum, pineapple juice, passionfruit juice, and ice to a cocktail shaker and shake well. Pour half way up a shot glass.
2. Then layer on top the Jamaican rum and then the Bacardi 151.
3. Slowly pour grenadine down the side of the shot glass to let it sink to the bottom of the shot.
4. Add a pineapple garnish and light it on fireeee!!!
Click "Next" for Strawberry Margarita Jello Shots.
1. Slice the bottom tip off of the strawberries so that the can stand and hollow them out carefully with a melon scooper sure not to puncture through the skin of the strawberry. Place the strawberries in an ice mould to stabilize them.
2. Boil 1 cup of water then add the strawberry jello powder. Then mix in the liquor.
3. Pour the mixture into the strawberries and place in the fridge for about 2 hrs to let them completely set.
4. When the strawberry jello is completely solid, pour salt onto a plate and rim the strawberries with the salt. Finally garnish with a slice of lime.
Click "Next" for Sugar Cookie Shots.
10. Sugar Cookie Shots 🍭🍭
1/2 oz. Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz. Cake Vodka
1/2 oz. White Chocolate Liqueur
Splash of Heavy Whipping Cream
Whipped Cream
Mini Nilla Wafers
Sprinkles
Strawberry Icing
How to make it:
1. Rim the shot glasses with strawberry icing and set aside.
2. Add ice, the liquor, and a splash of heavy whipping cream to a cocktail shaker and shake well. Then pour into the shot glasses.
3. Top of with whipped cream, mini Nilla Wafers and sprinkles...and tada!
Click "Next" for Caramel Apple Pie Shots.
11. Caramel Apple Pie Shots 🍮🍎
1 Part Green Apple Vodka
1 Part Caramel Vodka
1 Part Apple Juice
Whipped Cream
Caramel Sauce
Graham Cracker Crumbs
Cinnamon Sticks
How to make it:
1. Rim the shot glasses with caramel sauce and then the graham cracker crumbs. Then set aside.
2. Add ice, the liquor and apple juice to a cocktail shaker and shake well. Then pour the mixture into the shot glasses.
3. Finish off the shots with some whipped cream, drizzle on some caramel sauce, add a cinnamon stick to each for garnish and it's done!
Every successful club night in Toronto starts with a fun pre. Most of the time us Torontonians will pre while getting ready, or chilling before we head out to the club. It's a like pre-ritual that is 100% necessary for a successful night out.
If you're in the mood for a killer night out and want to have a pre not inside your apartment, you're in luck. Toronto has some awesome bars that have good deals, and are chill enough that you won't be completely sloshed before making it to the club.
Bar 244 is the perfect bar before going to the club. They have killer cheap drink deals, (Thursday, Friday and Saturdays $3 mixed drinks) which is perfect so you don't spend $14 on 8 drinks at huge clubs.
This bar is small and low-key enough that you can get a good amount of tipsy quick, and then head out on Queen St. W for a night of dancing and good times.
This bar has cheap drinks and food to satisfy you before you go out. This is a perfectly good place to spend your whole night if you're really looking for something chill.
Get Well is the perfect place for a longer pre. There are tons of cool vintage arcade games to play while you drink and prep yourself for a wild night.
This bar is perfect for a pre with a friend if you're looking to go out in the east end. It's small and comfortable and will surely relax you before you get wild.
If you're looking for a little entertainment before your night begins, check out the smiling buddha. This music/art/sports bar will entertain you before you go out.
Another cool dive bar with cheap drinks that will make your pre awesome. This bar has super chill vibes that will contribute to an excellent start of the evening.
