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Agave y Aguacate
Food & Drink
Introducing: Reforma, Baldwin Village’s new Mexican restaurant (in the old Agave y Aguacate spot)
Out with beef tongue, in with tacos
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Food & Drink
Chef Francisco Alejandri says adios to Agave y Aguacate
Just a little over one year after opening his Baldwin Village restaurant, Agave y Aguacate , co-owner and chef Francisco Alejandri...
Food & Drink
Where can you still score a table for two on Valentine’s Day? These places. (But hurry.)
No Valentine's Day reservations? Don't break out that that fail-safe bolognese recipe just yet. We called around to places that...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2014: Food
Yasu 81 Harbord St., 416-477-2361 In a narrow white room, chef-owner Yasu Ouchi delivers glistening sushi, one piece at a time, to...
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Food & Drink
Where to Eat Now: everything you need to know about dining in Toronto in 2014
I’d gladly spend every night in a bar seat facing the open kitchen at Chantecler. Two scruffy young chefs squeeze past one...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants in Toronto 2014
These are the spots that encapsulate Toronto dining at its current peak, and ones I happily recommend to a friend or visitor. Chef...
Food & Drink
Review: Agave y Aguacate serves excellent Mexican food in a refined new space
Agave y Aguacate ★★>½ 35 Baldwin St., 647-748-6448 Two years after closing his cultish Kensington Market food stall, chef...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Agave y Aguacate, a permanent reincarnation of the beloved Mexican food stall
Name: Agave y Aguacate Neighbourhood: Baldwin Village Contact Info: 35 Baldwin St., 647-748-6448 Owners: Mexican-born chef...
Food & Drink
Recipe: spicy ceviche tostadas from Agave y Aguacate chef Francisco Alejandri
PREP TIME: 20 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 30 minutes COOK TIME: 8 minutes Serves 12 CEVICHE 13 limes 1 lb fresh fillets lean white...
Food & Drink
Beloved taco spot Agave y Aguacate is back in Baldwin Village
Mexican-born chef Francisco Alejandri opened a Kensington Market taco stand in 2011, ahead of the current craze. With only a...
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Culture
The Layover in Toronto: Anthony Bourdain’s favourite spots and best quips
For last night’s episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain and his merry crew squeezed as many of Toronto’s culinary delights...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Yakitori Bar and Seoul Food Co., a pair of new restaurants on the corner of Baldwin and McCaul
After Baldwin Palace Restaurant closed, the space it vacated was originally meant to be a new Wild Wings franchise—but when the...
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Sang Kim is opening a pair of new restaurants on Baldwin: Yakitori Bar and Seoul Food
Close watchers of Baldwin Village have no doubt noticed the butcher paper in the windows at 1 Baldwin Street. Coming soon to the...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 22 to 28
Monday October 22 Tuesday October 23 Wednesday October 24 Thursday October 25 Friday October 26 Saturday October 27 Sunday October...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Rebozos on College, a new downtown location for one of the city’s best taco joints
Seven years ago, before tacos had become all-but-inescapable in Toronto, Mexico City native Indalecio Marroquin opened Rebozos, a...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in September
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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The Month That Was: The Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in August
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Agave y Aguacate closes in Kensington but will be popping up here and there
After just over a year of delighting Kensington Market with his meticulous Mexican street food, Francisco Alejandri, the affable...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 20 to 26
Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 22 Thursday, August 23 Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Sunday, August...
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Here’s where Anthony Bourdain stopped by during his Toronto layover
Regular Dish readers will know that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s favourite bad-boy chef–turned–professional eater was in town last...
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Dustin Gallagher, of Top Chef Canada fame, on funny sushi masters and divine French toast
(Image: John Cullen)
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Where to Eat Now 2012: five top renditions of this year’s hot Mexican street food, the tostada
Every chef and his sous found inspiration in Mexican street food this year. Here, five high-piled tostadas that had us ordering...
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Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap 2012: 14 foodie finds, from family-style feasts to cut-rate craft beer
By Andrew D’Cruz, Matthew Hague, Rachel Heinrichs, Emily Landau, David Lawrason, Jason McBride, Mark Pupo, Peter Saltsman and...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
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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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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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