Portrait of Elise Hanson
i. Biography
Élise Hanson is the bar manager at Civil Works in Toronto’s Waterworks Food Hall, where she helped create the cocktail program and menu for the high-tech bar concept. In 2024, she was named Foodism’s Mixology Icon and won Tales of the Cocktail Foundation’s Most Imaginative Bartender competition, a win that led Civil Works’ team to approach her about leading the bar program.
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