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Inside the kitchen of Diego Reyes, head chef at Chantecler
Stocked with second-hand appliances, parsnip ice cream and a rare cookbook from the chefs at Noma
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Tiers of Joy: Five of Toronto’s best seafood towers
From an à la carte budget option to the ultimate multi-tiered extravaganza
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What’s on the menu at Chantecler, the new Bloorcourt location of Parkdale’s favourite French restaurant
The bistro is back—and this time it comes with a big park-facing patio
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How to make Le Phénix bartender Marta Ess’s take on a classic New Orleans cocktail
It's a gin twist on the sazerac, made with pantry supplies
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What’s on the menu at Le Phénix, a French pop-up restaurant from the Chantecler team
It’s only around until June
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Inside Chantecler Boucherie, the Parkdale restaurant’s next-door butcher shop
Hello? Is it meat you're looking for?
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Toronto’s best French restaurants
Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites
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The best restaurants in Parkdale and Little Portugal
Our highest-rated restaurants in the two west-end 'hoods
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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25 of Toronto’s best bars and restaurants for late-night eats
Where you can eat great when it's really, really, really late
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20 reasons why there’s never been a better time to drink wine in Ontario
We're crushing hard on the province's grapes
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Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
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How Chantecler and Bar Begonia ditched trendiness and became 2016’s hippest hangouts
A year-end salute to the two trend-bucking restaurants that aim for something timeless
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Toronto restaurateurs’ favourite after-work hangouts
"Sometimes after a long shift, a bunch of us will head over to BMB Karaoke"
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What’s on the menu at Chantecler, Parkdale’s recently reimagined French bistro
Chef Jesse Mutch took over the reins after Jonathan Poon's departure
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Consumed: What Franco Stalteri, the founder of Charlie’s Burgers, ate last week
"I've had trouble with fernet ever since Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver came to Toronto for back-to-back CB dinners"
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Jonathan Poon leaves Chantecler
But that doesn't mean the Parkdale restaurant is closing
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Weird and Wonderful: Natural wines, the funky punk-rock stars of the wine world, are coming into vogue
Purists will love the idea of natural wines. They’re made from grapes that are grown using organic practices, for starters, but...
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Chantecler’s Jonathan Poon: “Toronto can’t sustain fine dining restaurants.”
—Controversial words from Jonathan Poon, the chef and co-owner of Parkdale restaurant Chantecler, as quoted in a recent profile...
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More details on Chantecler chef Jonathan Poon’s new Queen West restaurant
Last week, we broke the news that Chantecler chef and co-owner Jonathan Poon was the restaurateur behind the mysterious golden...
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Chantecler’s Jonathan Poon is probably opening a new restaurant on Queen West
For a couple months now, we’ve been keeping an eye on the Twitter account for Bar Fancy, a new restaurant scheduled to open on...
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Cold Arts: 10 next-level ice creams and sorbets
Chefs are taking house-made ice creams and sorbets to new heights, goosing them with herbs, spices and savoury flavours to wildly...
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Where to Eat Now: everything you need to know about dining in Toronto in 2014
I’d gladly spend every night in a bar seat facing the open kitchen at Chantecler. Two scruffy young chefs squeeze past one...
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10 Best Dishes at Toronto Restaurants in 2014
How to narrow down thousands of gratifying forkfuls into one definitive list? Easy. These are the dishes I’d order again and...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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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
Deep Dives
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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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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“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