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Just Opened: Knife, a Queen West shop devoted to the world’s best kitchen blades
Tucked into a diminutive second-storey space at Queen West and Tecumseth, Knife feels like an art gallery: high-end Japanese...
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Best gourmet ingredients
We asked five creative chefs for the one ingredient that will instantly give home-cooked meals that intangible gourmet flourish...
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McEwan tapped to be head judge on Top Chef Canada—plus, hilarious questions from the contestant application form
Not surprisingly, Food Network Canada tapped charismatic Toronto chef Mark McEwan ( Bymark , One ) to be the Canadian Colicchio on...
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Due South: the GTA’s five best southern dishes
Five finger-lickin’ dishes Torontonians used to drive hours for the gastronomic pleasures of the American South. We’re not...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Two Canadian restaurants make the S. Pellegrino top 100
The much-anticipated list of S. Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants 2010 was announced in London yesterday in front of the...
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Canada gets its own Top Chef; wild speculation ensues
News came over the wire today that Canwest is producing a Canadian version of Top Chef that will air on the Food Network next...
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Suck it, Montreal: two Toronto restaurants make it onto Food and Wine’s “best 100 experiences” list
In the ongoing battle over which city is Canada’s best for food, Toronto has gained some new bragging rights. The latest issue...
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Why are there no female sushi chefs? Blame warm hands and menstruation
According to the Star , there are only three female sushi chefs in Toronto because of a series of age-old beliefs about how the...
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Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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Just opened: Malena, by the restaurateurs who brought L’Unità to Yorkville
Yorkville’s own little Little Italy—that block of Avenue Road where Sotto Sotto and L’Unità have stood these past few...
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New York Times realizes T.O. is total sausage fest
The Times is a bit late on the meat craze, with its magazine recently running a travel piece on some of Toronto’s carnivorous...
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The Daily Dish loses a word, but nothing else
Today, torontolife.com launches the two latest additions to our roster of blogs: The Informer, dealing with the news of the...
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Best new restaurants 2010: James Chatto names five honourable mentions
Toronto Life 's annual ranking of the city's 10 best new restaurants is in our April issue, on newsstands now. Despite the...
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Three terrifying visions of our food future, courtesy of Condé Nast Traveler
The tea leaves of our impending food future have settled—and they look ominous. Condé Nast Traveler predicts that over the next...
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The latest food fashion is not a dish, but an elusive “fifth taste”
The Japanese have known about it for years, and researchers have confirmed its existence, but the Globe is just now declaring it...
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Mind your manners: massive sharing platters are back
Staggering out of an economic hangover, Torontonians are still embracing the culinary equivalent of the Snuggie. Savvy chefs are...
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Fumes from gas stoves carcinogenic, says study
A new Norwegian study is giving new meaning to the cliché "cooking with gas." Apparently, many of us have been cooking too close...
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Ferran Adrià is optimistic about the future of El Bulli
The announcement in the New York Times last week that chef Ferran Adrià would permanently close El Bulli, the restaurant many...
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Splendido’s Victor Barry heading to Calgary on chef exchange—and Rush’s Justin Leboe comes here
As Splendido ’s second incarnation continues to draw praise, chef-proprietor Victor Barry is taking the restaurant’s buzz out...
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Susur Lee to compete on second season of Top Chef Masters
The second season of Bravo’s reality series Top Chef Masters, in which 22 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in...
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Go west: Marc Thuet leaves T.O. to take Conviction to B.C. and the U.S.
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are leaving Toronto to take on Vancouver and the United States. Following the success of their two...
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Chef burnout: the culinary creative class sounds off on Ferran Adria’s two-year break
Canadian chefs are sounding off about the announcement by Ferran Adria, Spanish chef extraordinaire, that he is temporarily...
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Cook, dine, donate: Toronto’s top female chefs raise money for Haiti
The latest effort by Toronto’s culinary community to help victims of last month’s earthquake is the Chefs for Haiti Fundraiser...
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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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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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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