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Toronto’s 10 best hot dogs to scarf down this summer, ranked
Our picks for the city's top dogs, from orthodox to outlandish
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Toronto’s best happy hours
Our favourites places for discounted drinks
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11 extraordinary family-style feasts to fill up on this Family Day
Start your own tradition of not doing dishes
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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The 20 best reasons to brunch in Toronto right now
If you’re going to line up for a mid-morning meal, make it one of these
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Toronto’s best doughnuts right now
Our artery-exploding ranking of the city’s best doughnuts, crullers and custard-filled confections
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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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The best fried chicken sandwiches in Toronto right now
We'd like to apologize to your arteries ahead of time
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20 of Toronto’s most preposterous, over-the-top piles of poutine
Bookmark this page for easy late-night referencing
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What happens when a bunch of Toronto and Montreal chefs get together for a hockey game? They make a ton of killer food (and also play some hockey)
It was more about food than sport
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Ten dishes you missed at What’s on the Table (and where you can still find them)
A look at The Stop's annual all-you-can-eat fundraiser to fight hunger
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New Year’s Eve Dinners: eight delicious ways to ring in 2014
The key to a successful New Year’s Eve: making a firm plan and sticking to it. Scoring a great reservation ensures that part of...
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Sam’s Philly Cheesesteak opens on Church Street
Sam’s Philly Cheesesteak is the newest downtown sandwich shop, and latest example of the Philly cheesesteak trend in Toronto...
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The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
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The Layover in Toronto: Anthony Bourdain’s favourite spots and best quips
For last night’s episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain and his merry crew squeezed as many of Toronto’s culinary delights...
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Trend we Love: Philly cheese steak, spotted in low- and middlebrow incarnations
Those who’ve grown weary of sanctimonious locavorism will welcome the sudden ubiquity of the Philly cheese steak on Toronto...
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26 of the best Toronto happy hour specials
Happy hours have a weird history in straight-laced Ontario. The province first allowed the practice in 1981, only to ban it three...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for December 3 to December 9
Foodies on Foot leads their Streetcar Food Tour on Saturday (Image: Robert Taylor) Monday, December 3 Tuesday, December 4...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 19 to November 25
Tuesday November 20 Wednesday November 21 Thursday November 22 Friday November 23 Saturday November 24 Sunday November 25...
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Best of the City 2012: four extravagant whole-beast feasts
Catch 744 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-658-0568 Chef Nigel Finley at Catch, St. Clair West’s new sustainable seafood...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 30 to August 5
Monday, July 30 Tuesday, July 31 Wednesday, August 1 Thursday, August 2 Friday, August 3 Saturday, August 4 Sunday, August 5...
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Spotted: Anthony Bourdain at St. Lawrence Market, probably shooting No Reservations
Earlier this morning, the nominations for the 64th Emmy Awards were announced, and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations received four...
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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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Where to Eat Now 2012: five top renditions of this year’s hot Mexican street food, the tostada
Every chef and his sous found inspiration in Mexican street food this year. Here, five high-piled tostadas that had us ordering...
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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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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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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
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand