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Bar Buca
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Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
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A globe-spanning guide to Toronto’s best international brunches
A baker’s dozen of brunch plates worth lining up for
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Toronto’s best Italian restaurants
Toronto Life's favourite places to carbo-load
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Toronto’s best happy hours
Our favourites places for discounted drinks
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Where chef Kshitiz Sethi eats butter chicken, pizza Pugliese and pav bhaji fondue in Midtown and North York
The Paese chef takes us to three of his favourite spots
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Where to eat, drink—and yes, spot celebs—during TIFF
20 places to potentially rub elbows with the stars
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15 of our favourite restaurants and bars perfect for last-minute Valentine’s Day dates
No reservations required
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15 new restaurants to check out right now
Where to eat house-made sausages, stuffed chicken wings, gnocchi poutine, vegan pizza and more
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What’s on the menu at Bar Buca, Rob Gentile’s new all-day spot at Yonge and Eglinton
Hope you're hungry, midtown
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The best restaurants on King West right now
Our favourite restaurants along the King-Adelaide corridor
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Inside the kitchen of Stuart Cameron, executive chef of Byblos, Patria and the brand-new Mira
A few of the things it's stocked with: pisco, chorizo, frozen pizza and Vegemite
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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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Toronto is getting two more Buca restaurants
Get ready, midtown
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
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13 of our favourite brunch spots in Toronto right now
We're going way beyond eggs Benny for this list of the city's best mid-morning meals
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Buca is expanding to the 905
Get ready, Vaughan
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11 of Toronto’s most bonkers breakfast sandwiches
The most insane morning meals between sliced bread (or brioche, or doughnuts, or fried chicken thighs)
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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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Real Weddings 2016: Inside Buca chef Rob Gentile and wife Audrey’s rustic celebration at the Burroughes Building
Spoiler alert: the food was amazing
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Inside the kitchen of Buca’s executive chef Rob Gentile
A few of the things it's stocked with: champagne, homemade turkey chili and a ton of olives
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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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Eight ways to eat heart in Toronto on Valentine’s Day
This weekend, treat someone special to chicken (or duck or horse or bison) ticker
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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UberEATS is now in Toronto and delivering lunch downtown (in 10 minutes or less)
Starting May 14 (that's today), Torontonians have another meal delivery service at their fingertips: UberEATS , a lunch service...
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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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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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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