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Quarantine Cuisine: How chef Ben Heaton makes his zesty club sandwich
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What’s on the menu at Shook, a new vegetarian restaurant from the team behind Byblos and Patria
Everything is cooked over fire
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What’s on the menu at Estia, a Mediterranean restaurant from Charles Khabouth and Hanif Harji
The kitchen of the NAO replacement is helmed by chef Ben Heaton
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Introducing: Batch, a new restaurant and brewery from Creemore
Three cheers for beer
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Creemore is opening a brewpub downtown
And chef Ben Heaton designed the menu
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Review: Città makes for a fun CityPlace hangout, but don’t expect top-notch Italian
Città ★ 92 Fort York Blvd., 416-623-9662 The new casual Italian restaurant in CityPlace’s condo village is the latest project...
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Introducing: Città, CityPlace’s new (but rustic) Italian kitchen
Name: Città Neighbourhood: Harbourfront Contact Info: 92 Fort York Blvd ., 416-623-9662, cittatoronto.com Owners: Charles...
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Città, CityPlace’s new Italian restaurant, lands a first-class chef
Now that The Grove has served its last meal, we wondered where the talented chef Ben Heaton would go next. Turns out he’ll be...
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Recipe: The Grove chef Ben Heaton’s elegant take on scalloped potatoes
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 1 hour 15 minutes Serves 12 SCALLOPED SWEET POTATOES 2 tbsp olive oil 3 red onions, thinly sliced 1...
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Must-try: The Grove’s chilled pea soup packs a sweet, herbaceous punch
For a few short months at The Grove, Ben Heaton does magical things with simple, peak-season peas. On the current menu, he blends...
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Haute Junk: Matt Blondin and Ben Heaton team up to serve KD and Slurpees at the latest Charlie’s Burgers dinner
In Toronto, the trendiest new restaurants ply an almost cultish kind of casualness, where the greatest sin a new eatery can...
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Superchefs Matt Blondin and Ben Heaton are bringing bar snacks to a Dundas West cocktail spot
If you follow Toronto chefs on Twitter, you know there’s a lot of love between them—they exchange more shout-outs and props...
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Slideshow: Claudio Aprile hosts a farewell dinner for Colborne Lane with six of his top alumni
Claudio Aprile closed Colborne Lane in February with little notice in order to focus on his growing stable of Origin...
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Trend We Love: freebies with the bill
Nothing takes the sting out of a hefty bill like a plate of treats on the house. Below, four places that soothed our end-of-meal...
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Flavour of the Year: Five tips for preparing vegetables from the city’s top chefs
A miracle has occurred in this meat-obsessed city: vegetables have shown up on menus. Here, five top chefs offer easy tips for...
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Best New Toronto Restaurants 2013
One thousand three hundred and eight. That’s how many restaurants opened in 2012—more than triple the year before, and the...
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Claudio Aprile is convening Colborne Lane’s top alumni for one final dinner
Claudio Aprile, who announced the closure of Colborne Lane last month, is hosting a valedictory celebration for the molecularly...
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Recipe: Parsley root soup from The Grove, an earthy and richly textured starter
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 25 minutes Serves 4 SOUP 2 tbsp olive oil 3½ lb parsley roots, peeled and diced 3 celery...
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Five new pubs that push British comfort food beyond pigs and puddings
1. The Grove Ben Heaton’s restaurant has upturned all our Brit pub expectations by putting modern spins on stodgy classics. His...
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Holiday Feast Recipe: Scalloped sweet potatoes from The Grove’s Ben Heaton
England-born chef Ben Heaton opened The Grove on Dundas West last spring, instantly elevating the standard of British food in...
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Flavour of the Month: Eight locavore chefs on what to do with their favourite farmers’ market finds
For a few short weeks every year, farmers’ markets are flush with obscure fruits and vegetables you’ll rarely see in grocery...
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Best of Fall 2012: three of the trendiest kitchen essentials
(Images: from left, courtesy of Naomi Duguid; The Healthy Butcher; and Herriott Grace)
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Gastropub Crawl: the good and great among the new wave of British pubs
Can a new crop of British pubs push the comforting cuisine beyond stodgy pigs and puddings? Toronto is a town obsessed with the...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 17 to 23
Monday, September 17 Tuesday, September 18 Wednesday, September 19 Thursday, September 20 Friday, September 21 Saturday, September...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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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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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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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“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