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St. Clair West seafood spot Catch has gone fishin’
The restaurant that introduced Toronto to The Gout—a whole, oyster-stuffed trout roasted inside a baby goat—has...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: Seafood
Last year’s lobster roll craze has escalated into a full-blown love affair with fresh platters of tentacles, claws and other...
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St. Clair seafood restaurant Catch gets a new menu and a new head chef
“Less is more” seems to be the collective motto among Toronto restaurateurs: less formal, less fussy and less...
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Must-Try: the s’mores at Catch on St. Clair are an exercise in sensory overload
Charlotte Langley, the new chef at Catch, is a talent on the rise. The P.E.I. expat took over the kitchen in May, infusing the...
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Must-Try: Catch’s foie gras–topped bone luge redefines the PB & J
When Charlotte Langley replaced Nigel Finley at Catch, the seafood restaurant on St. Clair West, we were curious to see if she...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Terroir-ism edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The...
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Trend We Love: tableside ceremony
Chefs are perfecting their tableside manner and bringing a bit of ceremony back to dinner. We heartily approve.
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Flavour of the Year: Our five favourite takes on the lobster roll
This year’s East Coast lobster glut gave Toronto umpteen variations on the lobster roll. See all five lobster rolls »
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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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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in February
Even in the winter, it can be hard to keep pace with all the restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is...
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Introducing: Catch, the Rushton’s new seafood-themed sister restaurant on St. Clair
A year and a half after St. Clair fixture Filippo’s ended its more than 20-year run, the paper has finally come off the windows...
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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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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