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Food & Drink
Five food trends we have a love-hate relationship with
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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12 food trends we observed at the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices show
To follow up the Canadian Chef Survey of food trends, we decided to attend the annual conference of the Canadian Restaurant and...
Food & Drink
Chef redefines “locavore” by making cheese out of his wife’s breast milk
A popular New York chef has managed to push the boundaries of the culinary world and the locavore movement at the same...
Food & Drink
Vancouver’s storied vegan cheese, Daiya, lands in Toronto
Toronto vegans have previously had to go to great lengths to obtain Daiya , the much-hyped vegan cheese revered by the non-meat...
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Water buffalo cheese is the latest in artisinal dairy
Two years ago, Martin Littkemann and Lori Smith were tired of milking cows, so the couple purchased 40 young water buffalo for...
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Six Ontario delicacies being served at the Olympics Pavilion
It’s no secret that corporate sponsorship is one of the most competitive sports at the Games, but a few independent...
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Fifth Town Cheese becomes greenest dairy in North America
Back in 2006, when Toronto Life first wrote about Petra Cooper, a former publishing exec from Toronto who left a successful career...
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A first look inside Paul Boehmer’s eponymous Ossington restaurant (and details of his new Dean and Deluca-esque retail shop)
Paul Boehmer' s soon-to-open restaurant is like the cherry on top of the Ossington sundae. The eponymous eatery was one of the...
Food & Drink
Winter fresh: seven farmers’ markets that stay open through the snowy season
Although falling leaves and impending frost have shuttered most of Toronto’s farmers' markets, not all have packed up their...
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L.A. is king of the delis, Quebec’s cheese war, Halloween candy buy-back program
• Some dentist offices in the U.S. are offering a Halloween candy buy-back program to encourage trick-or-treaters to take it...
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Ten worst dining trends, wine corrodes teeth, recession takes its toll on Halloween
• The recession has claimed yet another victim: Halloween candy. A new U.S. survey has found that the recession will mean less...
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Snow White copyright violated, British cheese outsells French cheese, Twitter starts selling wine
• In Australia, an ad campaign for Jamieson’s raspberry ale has re-imagined Snow White as a coquettish sexpot, and...
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The Twitter diet, the best cheese in the world, the truth behind coffee’s contents
• Wired magazine breaks down what’s in a cup of coffee, including the good, the bad and the ugly. On the plus side, it’s...
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Black carrots are the latest craze, Madonna hates cheese, Prohibition feud heats up
• Feuding continues at Queen Street East bar Prohibiton. Ex-manager Joey McGuirk published a letter from his lawyer on...
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Toronto’s new poutine truck, 10 dazzling super-foods, the ethics of pain-free animals
• Gourmet poutine is set to become Toronto’s newest street grub. Smoke’s Poutinerie , which spices up traditional poutine...
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The world’s top 10 ethical wines, deep-fried butter, the “Superbowl of cheese”
• In theory, it looks to be the ultimate in artery-clogging cuisine: deep-fried butter. That’s what renowned deep-fryer Abel...
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Black Death-plagued tomatoes in Ontario, run a restaurant on Facebook, Alain Ducasse loves leftovers
• The rainy summer hasn’t just sucked for cottagers—it’s been bad for tomatoes, too. Many plants in the province have...
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Why it’s worth paying $200 to eat in a field
We are in the middle of a farmer's field near Bradford, Ontario, but it looks like a five-star restaurant. Jim Denevan has brought...
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Rogue cheese makers, Toronto restaurant closures, how to be a coffee snob
• Canada’s cheese makers are concerned that as the popularity of aged cheese increases, the substandard work of amateur cheese...
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Supermarket heap: Gourmet grocers colonize the city
There has been a sudden influx of gourmet grocers and grab-and-go eateries in Toronto. Many have been—or will be—created by...
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Go Longo: The 905 grocer opens a second downtown location
It's rare that the suburbs trump downtown on the food front, but for years the 905 has had one thing over the 416: a surplus of...
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Toronto’s top cheesecakes
Neither trendy nor cliché, cheesecake has gained a reputation as the go-to choice of the unadventurous—a steadfast, Golden...
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Globe Bistro’s Kevin McKenna and Eigensinn Farm’s Michael Stadtländer serve up an epic eat-local dinner
It was gastronomic ecstasy at the elegant “eat local” Globe Bistro Wednesday night, when Eigensinn Farm ’s Michael...
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Cheese Boutique partners with top chefs for indie food fest
The Cheese Boutique was abuzz with food enthusiasts last weekend for the launch of its annual Festival of Chefs . Now in its sixth...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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