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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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Filleted by Flay: conspiracy theories aplenty after Michael Smith loses on Iron Chef America
Seems like the Iron Chef America judges don’t care for Michael Smith' s signature potato anchors. On Sunday’s televised...
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Celeb chefs and namesake restaurants: arrogance run amok or marketing genius?
The Guardian is shaming celebrity chef Marco Pierre White for attaching his name to restaurants he rarely cooks in. “The idea of...
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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...
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Five 2010 trends to watch: we ask Jamie Kennedy, Anthony Walsh, David Lee and other chefs what to look for in the coming year
It’s no secret that 2009 was rough for restaurants—“It’s a year a lot of restaurateurs are happy to see go,” says C5...
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Total Control: Claudio Aprile cooks like a scientist and rules his kitchen like a dictator
Claudio Aprile is one of the city’s most talented chefs. At Colborne Lane , he introduced Toronto to freeze-dried soy and liquid...
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Michael Smith versus Bobby Flay: Iron Chef America gets a little Canadian flavour
Michael Smith has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Bobby Flay. On the January 31 episode of Iron Chef America , the Canadian...
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Just Opened: Ciao Wine Bar mixes South Beach and Italy, and moves it all to Yorkville
For Ciao Wine Bar, its newest high-octane hub, the Liberty Entertainment Group has shaken up the formula that has served them well...
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Jamieson Kerr talks about selling Crush and opening a second Queen and Beaver-esque pub
After eight years as owner and operator of Crush Wine Bar , Jamieson Kerr has decided to sell the once-French, now-British King...
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Toward a gourmet doughnut, remembering the old Annex, the perfect cup of tea
• Chefs across the U.S. are attempting to trick out Canada’s most modest treats: doughnuts. People can indulge in such...
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Torontonian Gail Simmons in line to host her own show (and maybe Padma Lakshmi’s show, too)
Toronto-born food critic and long-standing Top Chef judge Gail Simmons is set to host her own Bravo spinoff— Top Chef: Just...
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Best cookbooks of 2009, five tips for dining with kids, Paul Sorvino gets into the tomato sauce racket
• Lucy Waverman' s list of the top cookbooks of 2009 has (like the Junos) both Canadian and international winners. Canadian...
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RIP, Silver Spoon: the Roncey restaurant shutters after a decade of service
The Roncesvalles institution Silver Spoon is closing in the next two weeks, but chef and owner Rocco Agostino says the...
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Finally, Toronto gets its own angry restaurant staffers blog
Chefs and Rants , a blog started by an anonymous Toronto cook, has become a new venting outlet for those toiling in the city’s...
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Q&A with Guu’s chef, hangover-free alcohol, Corey Mintz’s castrated rooster
• Home chefs are increasingly turning to YouTube for cooking lessons. Eschewing the Food Network’s plucked and preening stars...
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Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
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Bob Blumer on humiliation, faking it and falling asleep watching Barefoot Contessa
Bob Blumer has come a long way from the cheesy printed shirts, the tornado hairdo and the Mrs. Dash commercials. Reclining in a...
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Cooking classes: the gift that gives back to the gifter
Unsurprisingly, cooking class registration increases in the weeks after Christmas, as wannabe chefs redeem gifts of culinary...
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Just Opened: Cloud Espresso Bar brings Bonjour Brioche’s former chef to Queen West
For all the fawning over Richard Florida, Toronto’s “creative class” still finds itself stuck in the abstract. Even those...
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Santas drink for charity, Carolyn Parrish vs. Hazel McCallion, Slow Food movement turns 20
• Various drunken Santas will be stumbling around New York, Vienna and several other cities for this weekend’s SantaCon, “a...
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Mustard ad made entirely of meat, debunking rumours of a Jennifer Aniston-Jamie Oliver partnership, the caloric overload of eggnog
• A Colman’s Mustard’s advertisement featuring Lord Kitchener’s face recreated with meat is making veggie boosters like...
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Q&A: legendary chef Thomas Keller on his culinary empire
A crowd of 450 (including top Toronto chefs Ted Corrado, Mark McEwan , Bonnie Stern and Donna Dooher ) gathered at the Toronto...
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Red wine chocolate bars, the smallest citrus on Earth, parents penalized for not giving their child junk food
• While cutting a sandwich horizontally seems fundamentally wrong, a panel of experts including chefs, foodies and even a...
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How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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