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    Bar Manager

    Elise Hanson

    Bar Manager, Civil Works

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    Portrait of Elise Hanson

    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.