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Two GTHA chefs just won prestigious pizza prizes
North America's best cheese pizza is being made in a small bakery outside of Hamilton
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Food & Drink
Food Truck Eats to throw the first-ever AwesTRUCK awards
Sure, food trucks in Toronto keep running into bureaucratic snags, but it’s pretty clear that a fair swath of the city has gone...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a stellar bottle of Ontario bubbly
Cave Spring Blanc de Blancs Brut $29.95 | Niagara Peninsula | Today, Ontario’s lieutenant-governor convenes various Queen's Park...
Real Estate News
GALLERY: See which Toronto buildings took home Pug Awards this year
This year’s Pug Awards, a kind o were handed out last night. After a month of online voting, the Centre for Green Cities at...
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City News
Gallery: Conrad Black and Peter Mansbridge reunite at the National Business Book Award luncheon
Trust business types to figure out how to cram an entire awards gala into the length of a standard business lunch. Yesterday at...
Food & Drink
Reaction Roundup: what keeps Canadian restaurants out of the world’s top 50?
Last week, we told you about Restaurant magazine’s annual list of the world’s best restaurants, which, once again, featured no...
Food & Drink
Terroir 2012 recap: what we saw, heard and ate at the big annual food industry meet-up
Last week, 500 members or so of Canada’s food and hospitality industry gathered for Terroir VI at the newly renovated Arcadian...
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Style
Toronto Life nominated for 24 National Magazine Awards
The nominations for the 35th annual National Magazine Awards were announced this week, and we’re very pleased to report that...
City News
Ryan Gosling is a good kisser, according to award-nominating body MTV
Ryan Gosling received no major award noms ( no Oscars, no Golden Globes ) last year, but he’s in luck: MTV has announced that...
Real Estate News
Vote on Toronto’s best new architecture for this year’s Pug Awards
The time has come again for architecture buffs (or bored Internet users) to vote in the annual Pug Awards, Toronto’s people’s...
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Today in Toronto: Hot Docs, You Can’t Take It With You and more
A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi A death-in-opera double bill. Composer Alexander Zemlinsky based his one-act tragedy on a...
Culture
Dragonette wins best dance recording at the 2012 Junos, ending DeadMau5’s winning streak
For the last four years, DeadMau5 has won the Juno for best dance recording of the year, but last night Martina Sorbara (of...
City News
Find out which awards dreamboat Ryan Gosling deserved to win, but didn’t—some may surprise you
Stephanie Bencin and Achilles Stamatelaky have created this hilarious film outlining which awards Ryan Gosling didn’t win for...
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Camera: a mix of Canada’s best filmmakers and top critics at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
January 10, The Carlu. The annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards mixes Canada’s best filmmakers and critics—which can...
Food & Drink
Drink the Oscars: just the right drink for each of the best picture nominees
As a companion to our 2012 Academy Awards drinking game, which tells you when to take a swig, we here at the Dish thought we’d...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I ask my boyfriend to stop competing in the same academic competitions as me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My boyfriend and I are University of Toronto students, and we apply for the same awards. He’s won out over...
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Montreal’s Joe Beef takes first place in the annual Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks
Kudos are due on two counts today for Montreal meat mecca Joe Beef . Reason No. 1: the operators of this long-lauded restaurant (...
Food & Drink
The Canadian Culinary Book Awards get an extreme makeover
The Canadian Culinary Book Awards have a new name, a new logo and, the organizers hope, some newfound relevance. TV consultant...
City News
Ryan Gosling faces some handsome competition for two Golden Globes
We do hate to admit it, but we don’t actually have a monopoly on Ryan Gosling gushing here at The Hype. This morning, Gerard...
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Culture
Three Toronto writers take home Governor General’s awards (two, somehow, for “bird” books)
The Canada Council for the Arts announced this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award winners today, marking the awards’...
City News
How Deadmau5—a.k.a. DJ Joel Zimmerman—came to make $100,000 a show and have four million Facebook fans
A steady August downpour drenched Chicago’s Grant Park on the final night of the Lollapalooza music festival. The rain and the...
City News
Rob Ford spurns his own art party to attend a football game
The Don Bosco Eagles steamrolled their way to a stunning 34-0 victory over the Richview Saints, news that would be utterly...
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Toronto ranked middle of the pack by Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards
Publishing powerhouse Condé Nast recently released the Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards—an annual roundup of the...
Food & Drink
Toronto Star’s Jennifer Bain wins North American food writing award
Jennifer Bain is the food editor at the Toronto Star and the author of the paper’s Saucy Lady column. She’s also this year’s...
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Toronto Life
’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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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