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What’s on the menu at Aloette Bay, the French diner’s new fast-casual location in a food hall
It’s the newest addition to CIBC Square’s Table Fare and Social
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What’s on the menu at Alobar’s new Financial District location
Including a bonkers twice-baked potato
Memoir
Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef
At Alo, I poured my heart and soul into creating the perfect dining experience: the ambience, the service, the elegantly plated food. Now I make 1,200 burgers a week
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Toronto’s best new CaféTO patios
They're more than just tables inside a pylon perimeter
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“We’re selling 1,500 burgers a week”: A Q&A with Alo chef Patrick Kriss, who turned Toronto’s fanciest restaurant into a takeout joint
"Obviously Alo isn’t a restaurant that we imagined with takeout in mind, but we’re in survival mode"
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The best restaurants on Queen West
Toronto Life's top tables on the bustling strip
Created for
American Express
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Toronto’s best French restaurants
Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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What’s on the menu at Alobar Yorkville, a new restaurant and cocktail bar from the team behind Alo
The group's third outpost opened just in time for TIFF
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What’s on the menu at Aloette, a new French diner from the Alo team
Including a burger, cheesy fries and an apple pie sundae
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Aloette, Alo’s more casual sister restaurant, will open next week
And you won't need a reservation to eat there
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What’s on the menu at Bacchanal, a new French bistro from Alo, Le Sélect and Campagnolo alumni
And man, does it have some pretty cool wallpaper
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20 reasons why there’s never been a better time to drink wine in Ontario
We're crushing hard on the province's grapes
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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The essential gear Toronto’s top chefs and bartenders can’t live without
A good pair of tweezers, a sexy strainer, Sharpies, and more of their current obsessions
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The city’s best vegan dishes, doughnuts and cheese—yes, cheese—right now
Delicious vegan doughnuts and cheese? Yes, it's possible
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Toronto’s top 10 late-night snacks, and where to find them
Ten places in Toronto to eat really great, really late
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The city’s top chefs on the best Toronto meals they’ve had lately
Ten chefs and the meals they crave
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Toronto’s best new restaurants
Our critic ate his way across the city, and lucky for you, he took notes. Here's our annual ranking of the city's top new places to eat
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Get same-day reservations at Toronto’s top restaurants with this new app
It's now possible to make last-minute dinner plans and still score a hot table
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Inside Patois chef Craig Wong’s kitchen
A few of the things it's stocked with: shrimp paste, Jamaican oatmeal and a $500 bottle of Japanese whisky
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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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Introducing: Alo, Patrick Kriss’s refined addition to the corner of Queen and Spadina
Name: Alo Neighbourhood: Queen West Contact: 163 Spadina Ave., 3rd floor., 416-260-2222, alorestaurant.com , @AloRestaurant Owner:...
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Patrick Kriss to bring refined dining to Queen and Spadina with Alo
Last November, ex-Acadia chef Patrick Kriss announced he was opening his own restaurant in Toronto. Alo is now slated to start...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business