What we’re looking for in a space.

We haven’t signed a lease. That’s the honest status, and it’s why the one photograph on this site is captioned as a feeling rather than as our room. What I can give you instead is the list I carry into every viewing, which is more useful than a description of somewhere we don’t have.

Room for 50 to 125 people to sit and eat without the place feeling thin at fifty. Somewhere a caterer can warm and plate — that one is on the requirements list for every space we look at. Step-free access and accessible washrooms, which are non-negotiable in anything we sign. Daylight, because a celebration that starts at ten in the morning shouldn’t feel like it starts at ten at night. A landlord who is genuinely relaxed about a different caterer every weekend and music running to eleven. And Brampton itself — not near Brampton.

When we sign, you’ll read it here first, and the founding families will see the place before anyone is allowed to call it finished.