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Best of the City 2013
Food & Drink
Year in Review: all 112 noteworthy Toronto restaurants that opened in 2013
Looking back on 365 days of Toronto dining, a few words stand out: tacos, burgers and real Southern barbeque. In 2013, Toronto...
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Year in Review: 45 fascinating Toronto shopping destinations that launched in 2013
2013 was a boom year for Toronto’s retail scene. Malls and shopping strips welcomed a raft of new international retailers, from...
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The Dish (Yearly) Power Rankings: the 10 busiest, buzziest restaurants of 2013
We crunched the numbers on a year’s worth of Weekly Restaurant Power Rankings to separate the one-week wonders from the genuine...
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Top Five: Toronto’s best Caesar salads
Toronto menus are filling up with luxe, light and irreverent takes on the classic starter. The basic components are the...
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Flavour of the Month: The holiday season’s eight best sweet treats
Christmas cookies make fun party snacks and charming gifts, but not everyone’s cut out to be a baker. With Toronto’s pool of...
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Eight warming winter beers to keep stocked this holiday season
On snowy, sub-zero days, the ideal drink is one that warms you up, inside and out. This year’s batch of seasonal craft beers...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for the food lovers
Everything a home cook could possibly want See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for outdoor enthusiasts
Rugged and sporty gifts for the athletically inclined See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for discerning kids
Gifts for small people with big taste See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for culture junkies
The year’s best offerings for people who are really into the arts See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for jet-setters
Gifts for world travellers (or anyone who just likes nice luggage) See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for under $50
These 41 gifts are covetable, fun and well-designed. They’re also inexpensive. Here, a list of great gifts for under $50. See...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents from $50 to $200
We scoured the city to find a slew of mid-range gifts for everyone on your list. Here, more than three dozen of our...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for over $200
Santa’s not the only one with a generous soul—most of us have had the occasional urge to splash out on a top-of-the-line...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our top 100 presents for everybody on your list
Our annual list of holiday gift ideas includes presents for kids, foodies, outdoors enthusiasts and more. Here, a roundup of 100...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Month: seven of Toronto’s best chicken wings
Bar snacks are big right now, which means the finger-licking chicken wing is, too. Here, seven of the best chicken wings in...
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Toronto’s Best Dressed 2013: our annual list of the city’s most stylish people
These 22 sartorial heroes have a passion for fashion and a rare talent for putting together outfits that make heads turn—and...
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Best of the City 2013: Middle Eastern breakfast spreads that top your typical brunch
The Persian spreads at this sunny new brunch spot are lovingly made with splashes of olive oil, sprinkles of pomegranate seeds and...
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Best of the City 2013: a whimsical dessert that’s almost too pretty to eat
Dessert is a chef’s last chance to make an impression, and Bruce Woods seizes the moment with his dainty sea buckthorn...
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Best of the City 2013: a scrupulous wardrobe audit from a veteran personal stylist
Renee Kaylor, owner of couture consignment boutique Rescue Vintage, is a veteran personal stylist and the city’s most skilled in...
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Best of the City 2013: spicy Singapore chicken wings that don’t require wet naps
Unless you’re soaking up a few pints, no good comes of ordering chicken wings. The meat-to-bone ratio is infuriatingly...
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Best of the City 2013: eco-friendly sunglasses that also look great
Drift sunglasses are handmade in Chicago using sustainable American hardwood (certified by the venerable Forest Stewardship...
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Best of the City 2013: a league for urban lumberjacks yearning to throw axes
The quirkiest tenant on Sterling Road’s warehouse row is the Backyard Axe-Throwing League, which has become a heraldic...
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Best of the City 2013: a thick, juicy cheeseburger that sticks to the essentials
Toronto has so many patty artisans, it could well support a burger guild. The Gabardine sets aside artisanal trickery and commits...
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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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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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
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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