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12 of Toronto’s best fusion restaurants
Our favourite places for things like truffled fried rice, a Vietnamese duck confit crêpe or Korean-Ukrainian cabbage rolls
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The city’s top chefs on the best Toronto meals they’ve had lately
Ten chefs and the meals they crave
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A look inside celebrity chef Susur Lee’s kitchen (and his fridge)
How the chef-owner of Lee, Luckee, Bent and Fring’s cooks at home
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Drake celebrates his birthday on Dundas West
Last weekend, Drake rang in his 28th birthday at Susur Lee' s Dundas West restaurant Bent. He later Instagrammed a play-by-play of...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
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Flavour of the Month: six takes on kitschy clams casino
Clams casino, the kitschy Italian-American favourite of bivalves baked on the half shell, is being revamped on modern menus. See...
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Recipe: Susur Lee’s butter-roasted scallops with tarragon
PREP TIME: 1 hour 15 minutes COOK TIME: 24 minutes Serves 6 CARROT PUREÉ 1 cup carrots, chopped 1 shallot, chopped 1 bay leaf ½...
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SPOTTED: Jessica Alba eats kale and tofu at Bent
A star-spotter warming up for this week’s TIFF celeb mayhem glimpsed Jessica Alba at Dundas West eatery Bent on Friday night...
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Must-Try: spicy tuna ceviche to swoon over at Bent
Ceviche is usurping sushi and sashimi as the raw fish dish du jour. At Bent on Dundas West, Susur Lee marinates tidy blocks of...
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Multicultural Mash-Ups: three brazen interpretations of Canada’s cultural mosaic on a plate
Owners Leemo and Leeto Han have captured Ossington’s Korean past and hipster present in a noodle bowl. Loaded with Korean...
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Another trendy new bar opens on the Dundas West strip
Montauk is the latest addition to the stretch of Dundas West east of Trinity Bellwoods park, joining Bent, L’Ouvrier and...
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The Dish Power Rankings: April fools edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. A long...
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Flavour of the Year: five inventive and delicious oyster dishes
Toronto is undergoing an oyster renaissance thanks to a gaggle of new seafood spots. Here, the top five tastes on the...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of Winterlicious 2013’s prix fix rebels
Winterlicious can be a double-edged sword for diners. Yes, there’s the prospect of great deals that you’d never get...
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Susur Lee goes all Jamie Oliver with new TDSB cafeteria initiative
Last year, the Toronto District School Board closed 32 of its cafeterias after the province set stricter guidelines about serving...
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Luminato announces lineup for 2012 edition of 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
On Friday, Luminato announced the full list of restaurants, vendors and food shops participating in its annual 1,000 Tastes of...
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More details emerge about Bent, the new restaurant from the Bent-Lee clan
While the initial hoped-for launch date of Christmas 2011 has come and gone (like every single other hoped-for launch date in the...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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“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