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Here’s what went down at the
Toronto Life
Best Restaurants 2018 party at the Evergreen Brick Works
Twenty-three local restaurants brought their culinary vision to one over-the-top event
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25 of Toronto’s best bars and restaurants for late-night eats
Where you can eat great when it's really, really, really late
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Here’s what to order at Toronto’s 20 best new restaurants
Toronto Life's food critic picks the most memorable dishes from 2017's best new restaurants.
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Toronto’s best new restaurants 2017
Our restaurant critic searched high and low for the city's most essential new eateries. Here's our annual ranking of the year's top tables
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Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
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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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19 of
Toronto Life’s
favourite places to eat in 2016
It's been a good year for food—and it's not over yet
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How Chantecler and Bar Begonia ditched trendiness and became 2016’s hippest hangouts
A year-end salute to the two trend-bucking restaurants that aim for something timeless
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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 24 best sandwiches in Toronto right now
Two dozen of the city's tastiest handheld creations
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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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Toronto’s best new patios this summer
Because the season's too damn short to sit inside
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How to make Bar Begonia’s rye cocktail
Bar manager Oliver Stern shares the recipe for his O&A
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Canadian whiskey makes a comeback
Bar Begonia's Oliver Stern shares his favourite locally blended bottles
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Toronto’s top artisanal toasts
Eye-roll if you must, but it's still trending for a reason
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Introducing: Bar Begonia, Anthony Rose’s Parisian cocktail bar in the Annex
This is the sixth spot for Toronto's comfort-food king
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #33, Anthony Rose
Rose is Toronto’s restaurant oracle
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How Anthony Rose became Toronto’s comfort-food king
With five trendy spots (and another on the way), he's the Judd Apatow of our city's restaurant scene
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Anthony Rose’s Bar Begonia will open on Dupont
Anthony Rose' s sixth spot, Bar Begonia , will be located at 252 Dupont Street just steps away from his trio of Annex...
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Queen West is getting a Rose and Sons
Anthony Rose is at it again, but this time he's moving away from the empire he's set up on Dupont. His new spot will be in the...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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