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The Toronto Star I
September 21, 2012
Something possessed me to ask Kyle Kristenbrun to describe the Museum Tavern as if it were a woman and he paused, thought for a minute, then deftly sketched the personality.
“She’s beautiful, elegant, approachable with a subtle sexiness,” said Kristenbrun, who opened the Museum Tavern July 11 with his older brother Glen Kristenbrun.
“She’s refined yet a lot of fun. You can sense the mischeviousness underneath.”
I’ll do him one better. Besides looki...
The Toronto Star II
September 12, 2012
Museum Tavern was the result of the mother of all bar crawls. The brainwave hit brothers Kyle and Glen Kristenbrun during a tour of bars across the U.S. Inspired by locales such as The Breslin in New York’s Ace Hotel, Chicago’s Purple Pig and a few venues in San Francisco, the brothers decided to open their version of the quintessential American tavern north of the border. But it’s not as if the Kristenbruns were jumping into the unknown: They already own ...
Toronto Life
August 12, 2012
Taking trips together to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, brothers Kyle and Glen Kristenbrun fell in love with classic Americana, so much so that they decided their family’s next restaurant project would have to be an ode to the great American bar. When they shared the idea with their dad, Tom—former Argonaut, chartered accountant, onetime co-owner of the El Mocambo and the man behind the now-closed institution and celebrity hotspot Bistro 990—he told ...
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