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At Omaw, Matt Blondin brings the American South to Ossington
Our review of the chef's sublime southern cooking
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Course correction: At his audacious new restaurant, Alo, Patrick Kriss revives the sullied art of the tasting menu
The new restaurant at Queen and Spadina is the best to open in the city this year—in many years, in fact.
Food & Drink
Acadia, one of Toronto’s most innovative kitchens, is becoming a casual trattoria
Little Italy’s Acadia is the culinary equivalent of a troubled genius: despite stellar reviews across the board, the refined...
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Bourbon, bluegrass and barrel-aged beers at Toronto’s inaugural Bourbon Week
In the last year or two, bourbon has stealthily inundated the city’s most fashionable cocktail lists, replacing cosmos and...
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Friday Night Bites: Tables for two at Acadia, Glas Wine Bar and Canoe
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
Food & Drink
Matt Blondin is no longer at Momofuku Daishō
Matt Blondin, the ambitious Toronto chef that came up through Colborne Lane’ s modernist kitchen before opening Acadia in...
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Chef Patrick Kriss leaves Acadia
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Canoe, Chantecler and Acadia
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
Food & Drink
Trend We Love: Quail eggs, pickled, smoked, fried, boiled and raw
Quail eggs have two principal virtues that distinguish them from chicken eggs: they’re tiny and they’re cute. They don’t...
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Edulis tops En Route’s Toronto-laden list of Canada’s best new restaurants
In her introduction to En Route’ s latest ranking of the country’s 10 best new restaurants, Sarah Musgrave declares 2012...
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Iron Chefs: how the fine dining institution Splendido creates culinary superstars
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 16 to 22
Monday, July 16 Tuesday, July 17 Wednesday, July 18 Thursday, July 19 Friday, July 20 Saturday, July 21 Sunday, July 22 Farmers’...
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Splendido announces its new chef de cuisine: Tom McHugh
Back in May, we told you about Patrick Kriss’ s decision to leave his chef de cuisine gig at Splendido (where, in addition to...
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Toronto vs. Chicago: Acadias, airport food and pizza edition
Two restaurants named Acadia opened last year: the Toronto version starred Matt Blondin (until he left) and Scott Selland, and...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: are restaurants allowed to refuse us a doggy bag?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently ate at Acadia, a new restaurant on Clinton Street. The meal was great, but when we...
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Splendido chef de cuisine Patrick Kriss to take over the kitchen at Acadia
If you haven’t heard a lot about Patrick Kriss yet, you will soon. Owners Scott and Lindsay Selland have revealed to...
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Acadia’s Matt Blondin to join Momofuku’s Toronto team after all
When Matt Blondin announced (via Twitter, naturally) that he’d be stepping away from Acadia, the molecularly tinged Southern...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 8: meat and potatoes
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Matt Blondin, on leaving his post as head chef of Acadia
— Matt Blondin, chef at Acadia, our second best new restaurant of 2012, which opened last July. No word yet on what’s next for...
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The Black Hoof is Canada’s fourth best restaurant—according to Vacay.ca’s inaugural poll
Shrewdly piggy-backing on the S. Pellegrino list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants (which comes out on Monday), new-ish travel...
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Where to Eat Now 2012
The sprawling dining scene in Toronto is more diverse and promising than ever. This year, a handful of 20-something chefs who...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 2 Acadia
The cuisine is billed as Acadian—the cooking of South Carolina and Louisiana married to the briny flavours of the...
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Best New Restaurants 2012
Ten spots that surprised us, delighted us and made us grateful to live in this restaurant-obsessed city. (Images: Raina and...
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All Mixed Up: Watch Acadia’s Benjamin Deacon prepare a Kraken-fashion
(Video: Matt Mark) Acadia serves a mix of classic and contemporary cocktails to complement its menu of artfully presented Acadian...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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