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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.
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling