It was the sort of drink I could well imagine Drake sharing with a few nice girls. I had the Proper Ting вЂ“ already a вЂњreally famousвЂќ drink, Jeff explained, of the restaurantвЂ™s own invention вЂ“ and it was suitably Drake-like in its modest flamboyance: served in a long, squat champagne coupe, it was frothy with egg white and topped with a black cherry and a patterned drizzle of grenadine. To begin with, Jeff was kind enough to recommend one of the houseвЂ™s signature cocktails.

(He never once insisted we вЂњthank him laterвЂќ, which I would have thought would be in the training manual.) My dining companion and I were shown to our table by a dark-suited manager and thereafter served by Jeff, a waiter who managed, with astonishing discipline, to refrain from making Drake jokes or puns of any kind. Our waiter managed, with astonishing discipline, to refrain from making Drake jokes or puns of any kind The dining room at FringвЂ™s is as sumptuous, as costly and as lush as the beats devised by DrakeвЂ™s in-house producer Noah вЂњ40вЂќ Shebib.

In the early 2000s, John Updike described the New Museum of Modern Art as вЂњbreathless of unspared expenseвЂќ. DrakeвЂ™s fondness for the ostentatious manifests itself in more characteristically idiosyncratic ways: neon lights lining the ceiling above fur-trimmed leather chairs and the most comfortable booth seating IвЂ™ve ever experienced, complete with lavish granite table. Those expecting the pastel pinks of Hotline Bling to exert an influence on the decor will be disappointed to find a more understated aesthetic the ink-black tablecloths and gilded accoutrements so memorably furnishing Take CareвЂ™s album art are nowhere to be found here, either. One can only credit DrakeвЂ™s gravitational pull for this triumph: the city is finding itself drawn to the place in record numbers. Rarely, even at TorontoвЂ™s most popular restaurants, does demand so rapidly dwarf supply. Within hours of the announcement that reservations could be claimed online, it became virtually impossible to get one a table for two at 7pm isnвЂ™t available, at the time of this writing, until the end of December. It wasnвЂ™t until last week, in any case, that the restaurant, the subject of much speculation, opened to the public for business.

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