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Anthony Rose just opened a second Big Crow in Trinity Bellwoods
It's almost like drinking in the park—but legal!
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Adamson Barbecue, a true Texas-style smokehouse
It's all about the meat
Food & Drink
Introducing: Baju, Zane Caplansky’s laid-back barbecue joint at The Monarch Tavern
Name: Baju BBQ Contact Info: 12 Clinton St., 416-531-5833 Neighbourhood: Little Italy Owners: Zane Caplansky (best known for his...
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Introducing: Hogtown Smoke, the slow-smoking food truck’s new barbecue joint in The Beach
Name : Hogtown Smoke Contact Info : 1959 Queen St. E., 416-691-9009 Neighbourhood : The Beach Owners : Brothers Scott and Kevin...
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Introducing: Que Supper Club, a new Queen East resto-lounge with barbecue, bottle service and a dance floor
Name: Que Supper Club Contact Info: 364 Queen St E., 647-748-1783, quesupperclub.com, @quesupperclub Neighbourhood: Corktown...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2013: Electric Mud’s nontraditional slow-smoked ribs
Everyone seems to be a barbecue purist today, with adamant opinions about regional rub variants, applewood versus hickory, saucy...
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Review: slow-smoked Southern barbecue at Marky and Sparky’s in the Junction
Marky and Sparky's ★½ 520 Annette St., 647-748-4227 The new 10-seater smokehouse at Annette and Runnymede injects a much-needed...
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Introducing: Big Crow, Anthony Rose’s new backyard barbecue tucked behind Rose and Sons diner
Name: Big Crow Neighbourhood: The Annex Contact info: 176 Dupont St. , 647-748-3287, roseandsonsbigcrow.com Owners: Anthony Rose...
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Boston Pizza is promoting its new ribs (and making people angry) by riffing on southern stereotypes
Rednecks are big in pop culture right now , especially on reality TV where rifle-toting swamp-dwellers and “sketti”-slurping...
Food & Drink
Anthony Rose is opening a BBQ restaurant behind Rose and Sons later this summer
An as-yet-unnamed eatery from chef Anthony Rose, who left The Drake Hotel last year to open the first of three new restaurants, is...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Our neighbours’ barbecue fills our backyard with unpleasant smoke. Can we complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I have new neighbours who love to barbecue, which is fine, except that it’s almost always...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Marky and Sparky’s Smokehouse, a new spot for southern barbecue in the Junction
Name: Marky and Sparky’s Smokehouse Neighbourhood: The Junction Contact Info: 520 Annette St., 647-748-4227, Facebook Owners:...
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Review: Electric Mud BBQ is a raucous Parkdale party spot for barbecue and bourbon
Electric Mud BBQ ★½ 5 Brock Ave., 416-516-8286 The team behind Grand Electric, Parkdale’s new-wave taqueria, has opened a...
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Introducing: Aft Kitchen and Bar, a new barbecue joint in Riverside
Name: Aft Kitchen and Bar Neighborhood: Riverside Contact info: 686 Queen St. East, 647-346-1541, aftbar.com, @aft_bar Owner: Paul...
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Smoke BBQ House is reopening with new ownership and a slightly different name (UPDATED)
Smoke BBQ House has shut its doors after only three months on Harbord Street. The southern barbecue restaurant announced the news...
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Barbecue restaurant Que Supper Club is opening soon on Queen East
Toronto’s first-ever barbecue-centric supper club will be launching soon at Queen and Parliament. Que Supper Club will serve...
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Barbecue joint Marky & Sparky’s Smokehouse is opening in Bloor West Village
Butcher by Nature is launching a new smokehouse where co-owner Frank DiGenova and pitman Marcus De Simone are going to turn the...
Food & Drink
The Month that Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in December
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Introducing: Smoke BBQ House, Harbord’s new no-nonsense barbecue joint
Harbord’s new Smoke BBQ House is the latest restaurant in Toronto dedicated to straightforward southern barbecue. Unlike places...
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Introducing: Triple A Bar, a new Texas-style barbecue joint and saloon on Adelaide
Laide, the erotically themed Adelaide and Jarvis cocktail lounge, has gotten a big revamp. The stripper pole and nude relief...
City News
Rob Ford re-ignites his election campaign at the biggest Ford Fest ever
Forget TIFF: The biggest party this weekend was Rob Ford’s annual barbecue. No, seriously—Ford Fest attracted more than 6,000...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 10 to 16
Monday September 10 Tuesday September 11 Wednesday September 12 Thursday September 13 Friday September 14 Saturday September 15...
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Ford Fest 2012 will have police, pony rides and a Pride parade
Despite the fact that Ford Fest is open to anyone who cares to schlep over to Rob Ford’ s mom’s house in Etobicoke, every year...
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A culinary tour of some of this year’s deep-fried wonders at the CNE
For last year’s Canadian National Exhibition, we brought you eight culinary innovations, including the god-awful (but much...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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