Bartender

*Coffee by day. After five, a cocktail bar.* 10 DEAN is a small group of coffee-and-cocktail bars around Toronto. Most locations pour both side by side all day, with the weight on coffee. Elm is the exception. It's our flagship and our biggest space, open two years, in a neighbourhood that turned out to want the cocktails as much as the coffee, so two months ago we made the switch. After 5pm Elm stops serving coffee and becomes a cocktail bar, full stop. We sit inside a residential building, and we lean into that. We're an extension of the neighbourhood people live in, not a standalone night-out spot. That shapes the room a little: warm and familiar first, sharp and put-together underneath. *The program* The menu changes with the seasons, and it's where we get to play. We do a lot in-house: infusions and fat-washes, oleo-saccharum and hou...