Hilary Duff is pivoting to a Toronto foodstagrammer
Will she make a grand return to Cheese Boutique?
Hilary Duff is a singer, an actor, the star of the 2026 celebrity mom group chat scandal and now, apparently, a foodstagrammer.
Currently touring her new album, called Luck… or Something, Duff posted a video from London, England, in which she samples a corned-beef sammie from a place called Brick Lane Beigel Bake. In the caption, Duff jokes that she blacked out in some kind of corned-beef climax and then asks for food recommendations for her next tour stop: Toronto.
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Cue the onslaught of adult Lizzie McGuire fans—more than 2,000 responses suggesting just about everything: Rodney’s Oyster House, “dumplings on Dundas,” the St. Lawrence Market, Badiali’s, Craig’s Cookies, Belly Buster Submarines, Pai, the poutine in the blue food truck near Nathan Philips Square. And, of course, someone (presumably Ryan Reynolds on an anonymous finsta account) suggested Tim Hortons.
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This is not Duff’s first time in Toronto (or Canada, for that matter), so she’s probably heard of Timmies. We know she already did the cheese cave at Cheese Boutique back in 2018, and given that she’s performing at Drake’s History nightclub on Saturday, she’ll probably get at least a few recommendations from the man himself.
A post-concert nosh fest at Sotto Sotto feels like a reasonable guess, but keep in mind the weather is supposed to be terrible, and Duff is an elder millennial woman with four kids at home and some rare time to herself. Smart money’s on Belly Buster subs back at the hotel while she binge-watches Heated Rivalry.
Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”
