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Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best bottles of champagne and sparkling wine
Fourteen bottles of bubbly worth popping
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Champagne cocktails for adding extra sparkle to the season
Featuring bar recommendations and the best local bottles to share with your real friends over the holidays
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Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best bottles of champagne and sparkling wine
Celebratory bottles for every budget
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The LCBO’s best sparkling wines
Bubblies that will fizz up any festivity
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Five bottles of bubbly that will add fizz to any holiday function
There’s a whole galaxy of bubbles beyond cava, prosecco and big-name champagne. Think outside the bottle
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14 of the LCBO’s best sparkling wines right now
’Tis the season to celebrate
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The LCBO’s best bottles of champagne and sparkling wine to ring in the New Year
These bottles of bubbly are sure to fizz up your festivities
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The city’s best champagne brunches
Because mom deserves more than rubbery pancakes and watery mimosas
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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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Nine Ontario sparkling wines that are twice as good as champagne for half the price
I will not be buying champagne for my New Year’s celebration. You can’t beat French bubbly for ostentatious luxury, but for...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I ask the host of a party to open the wine I brought?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I brought back an excellent champagne from Paris and was waiting for a special occasion to open it. I decided...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a rarely seen Nova Scotia sparkler
Benjamin Bridge Nova 7 $25 | Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia | Benjamin Bridge is a new Nova Scotia sparkling winery that’s been...
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The following shops are open until midnight tonight, should you want to shop and drink at the same time
Plaid magazine has teamed with the new app Found Riches to throw the late-night shopping event West End Riches, in which...
City News
PARTY PAGES: Power Ball, where you will never run out of meat, alcohol or pretty things to look at
A party like the Power Plant gallery fundraiser Power Ball: Quarter-Life Crisis hasn’t happened in Toronto since the Dangerous...
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12 delicious days of Christmas, from candy cane ice pops to yule logs filled with mousse cake
This time of year, it takes a strong will not to indulge, whether it be in the beautiful pastries and cakes spilling out of...
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Camera: Toronto’s peerage class gets dolled up for a royal visit at the TIFF Lightbox
November 2, TIFF Lightbox. It’s not often that royalty comes to town (not that we’re bitter, Will and Kate). So when Prince...
City News
Destination Munkistan: A look at Peter Munk’s new Adriatic playground for the super-rich
The latest project of the gold magnate Peter Munk is a seaside resort and tax haven for fellow billionaires in the post-Soviet...
City News
How Matthew Jocelyn tried to revive Canadian Stage but instead ended up scaring audiences away
As the crowd settled in for an early June performance of Édouard Lock’s Untitled at the Bluma Appel Theatre, Matthew...
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The List: Ten things celebrity chef and author Laura Calder can’t live without
My favourite read I love the personal pieces at the back of The Spectator . Essays are my favourite form of writing because...
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Bringing Sexy Back: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Aria and Toca
After three years of restaurant restraint, Aria and Toca, two unabashedly flashy new spots, are giving diners a reason to get...
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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
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Bubbly breakdown: LVMH warns of a looming shortage in champagne supply
LVMH , the luxury goods powerhouse known for its fancy handbags ( Louis Vuitton ) and highfalutin hooch ( Moët Hennessy ), has...
City News
King State of Mind: When did the once-cool King West strip descend into a mess of stretch Hummers, drunken bachelorettes and last-call brawls?
Scenes from a never-ending party “Let’s get drunk and fuck! Let’s get drunk and fuck!” I’m at Cobra, a King West club in...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
“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
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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