We never knew we wanted to go to Prince Edward County until the arrival of the Drake Devonshire Inn, the Drake Hotel Toronto’s ultra-hip country sister.

Everyone and everything looks good and smells good. Around every corner is art: murals, installations, sculptures.

We may have the Drake Devonshire to thank for the rise of Prince Edward County; while the wineries have been operating for about 20 years or so, the opening of this smart lakeside boutique hotel five years ago whipped the style cognoscenti into a frenzy and established The County as a destination worth exploring.

One of the most magical and coolly Canadian restaurant spaces with cooking that’s often good enough to match.

There’s cool art on site at the Drake Devonshire, an old country inn redone in hip-rustic fashion, where the top-notch restaurant has stupendous views of Lake Ontario.

Art here matches the scenery for eye candy.

The "Drake by the Lake" is one of our favorite intimate inns of all-time. Yes, we said it.

Toronto’s Drake Hotel opened this rural-hip lakeside outpost in 2014. Ever since, it has remained the hottest place to drink, eat and sleep. And rightly so. It consistently lives up to the hype.