Wish you could go hipster-ing in Brooklyn? Hit Hamilton instead

Ontario’s once blue-collar city is being compared to New York’s Brooklyn—which turned its likewise industrial past into a hipster hotbed of arts and culture—for good reason. You can gorge on ridic tasty tacos at The Mule, then throw back bourbons at the Baltimore House. Too many bourbons? Sip a bring-you-back-to-life organic tea at the vegan-friendly Democracy and then saunter over to the Hundred Dollar Gallery to check out the art.