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Twelve Toronto bars that have decked their halls for the holidays
Including a chic chalet and a gloriously gaudy cocktail bar
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Toronto’s best canned and bottled cocktails
These ready-to-drink cocktails are pushing at-home happy hour to new heights
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Toronto’s best online cooking, baking and drink-making classes
Learn to bake bread, shake a cocktail and roll sushi from some of Toronto's finest purveyors, all from the comfort of your laptop
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“It’s like starting from scratch again”: How six Toronto restaurateurs are planning to reopen for Stage 2
Toronto restaurants can start serving patrons on their patios today
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Toronto restaurants and food shops doing Father’s Day barbecue, brunch and booze boxes
Also: a virtual omakase
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The 30 best bars in Toronto
From molecular cocktails to top-notch tap lists, these are our favourite places to drink in the city right now
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Toronto’s best cocktail bars right now
Our favourite places for boozy libations
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Consumed: What chef and
MasterChef Canada
judge Claudio Aprile ate last week
"While I was on the phone, my steaks caught on fire"
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Eight fabulously potent punch bowls
Perfect for getting into the holiday spirit
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The Find: everything you need for the perfect bar cart
Ever since Mad Men made the martini cool again, home-owners and apartment dwellers alike have been obsessing over a single piece...
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A breakdown of BarChef’s Abstract Ice, a cocktail you eat with a spoon
Since 2009, Frankie Solarik of Queen West's BarChef has been rattling the cocktail scene with hyper-modernist elixirs, like the...
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Introducing: Furlough, a new Trinity Bellwoods bistro and cocktail lounge from the owners of BarChef
Name: Furlough Neighbourhood: Trinity Bellwoods Contact Info: 924 Queen St. W., 647-348-2525, furloughtoronto.com...
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Furlough, a new bistro from the owners of BarChef, is opening on West Queen West
The words "classic" and "traditional" aren't usually associated with BarChef concoctionist Frankie Solarik, whose hyper-modern...
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A revamped Lucid swaps creative cocktails for...pizza?
Derek Grandpre has replaced mixology master Moses McIntee as general manager at Queen West’s Lucid Cocktail and Kitchen. The...
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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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Best Bars: Two meticulously calibrated elixirs at Brassaii and Barchef (some assembly required)
Brassaii’s Campfire Coffee 461 King St. W., 416-598-4730 Booze slinger Jordan Stacey turns the common specialty coffee into a...
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Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
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Attention food science nerds: Foodpairing.com’s Bernard Lahousse brings taste into the lab in two talks this week
Chefs often speak of perfect pairings, particularly in food and wine. While most accept that certain flavour combinations just...
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Introducing: 416 Snack Bar, Queen West’s newest spot for cosmopolitan late-night grub
With the recent arrival of such hot spots as The Hideout , Tattoo Rock Parlour and Barchef , the Queen and Bathurst area has seen...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Suck it, Montreal: two Toronto restaurants make it onto Food and Wine’s “best 100 experiences” list
In the ongoing battle over which city is Canada’s best for food, Toronto has gained some new bragging rights. The latest issue...
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Toward a better booze-scape: seven egg-infused creations boost Toronto’s cocktail comeback
For years, Torontonians returning from Chicago and New York brought tales of their cocktail adventures—stories typically...
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More and more hot international chefs eating out in Toronto
We have been noticing lately that internationally renowned chefs are increasingly traipsing through Toronto. A few months...
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Americans becoming “flexitarians,” Laura Secord vs. Tim Hortons, designer ice cubes
• There is a recession-era term that's possibly more annoying than "recessionista." Americans are turning into...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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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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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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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