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Holiday shopping: 22 gift ideas for at-home chefs
Toronto Life 's annual Holiday Gift Guide has 120 ideas for presents, but we've put together this slide show of items (like a $20...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Le Papillon finally alights at Jonathan Ashbridge Park
According to Paul and Danielle Bigué, it was a sign from God that convinced them to convert a 90-year-old house on Eastern Avenue...
Food & Drink
Paula Deen hit by flying ham, Moscow’s favourite vodka comes to Canada, cooking up Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
• The ever-upbeat Paula Deen was unaware that she was in a game of catch when someone tossed a ham in her...
Food & Drink
Picking the best butter, ice cream for dogs, robot chefs take over Asian kitchens
• Dogs are no longer left out in the cold when it comes to ice cream. A teenaged entrepreneur from New York City has...
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David Lee and his chicken cartilage take home top honours at the Toronto edition of Gold Medal Plates
The bar was raised mighty high last night for the city’s haute cuisine scene with a head-to-head cook-off between some of...
Food & Drink
Greg Couillard’s back in Toronto to cook up a Mexican-Caribbean-Indonesian-Asian menu at the Spice Room
"If chefs are not doing drugs, they're drinking; and if they're not doing either, they're lying," says Greg Couillard while...
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More and more hot international chefs eating out in Toronto
We have been noticing lately that internationally renowned chefs are increasingly traipsing through Toronto. A few months...
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Whole Foods gets some competition, Rosie DiManno’s Halloween hijinks, rethinking turkey dinners
• New York challenges three chefs to create a Thanksgiving meal using such classic ingredients as turkey, brussels...
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Squash season is upon us: five of T.O.‘s top chefs show us how they’re treating fall’s star fruit
For Toronto chefs worshipping at the altar of fresh and local, squash is the ingredient of the moment. Cowbell ’s owner and...
Food & Drink
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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New York slams Canadians for not “doing their homework” on Coco cookbook
In a recent finger-wagging post on New York 's food blog, Grub Street, Daniel Maurer chastises the top figures of Canada's...
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Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano go spatula to spatula in Liberty Village booze-off
Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is staging a battle (Crown) royal tomorrow. House chef Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano (of Far Niente...
Food & Drink
Boneless chicken wings on more menus, Canadian diet unhealthy, Toronto’s newest microbrews
• The Holland Marsh is more than a distance marker on the way to cottage country. Fourteen per cent of Ontario's produce is...
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The sandwich generation: how the recession helped the lowly lunch box staple conquer Toronto
As people downsized discretionary spending (and foie gras consumption), the city’s chefs embraced their new bread and...
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Five no-sweat Thanksgiving meals
Attention, time-crunched turkey lovers. This weekend, some of Toronto’s top chefs and gourmet shops are offering no-fuss...
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Gourmet magazine has balled its last melon
Gourmet is no more. The food world is mourning the loss of the magazine, which has been a cornerstone of North American culinary...
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Christine Cushing berates hapless cooks, risks food poisoning
Even though Christine Cushing was a Food Network mainstay with three shows, cookbooks and her own line of food products, she...
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Food Porn: the Brick Works Picnic shows off the local harvest
It’s harvest time, and that means the Picnic at the Brick Works is close at hand. In only its third year, this annual...
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Michael Smith’s tweeting imposter, coffee does not keep drivers alert, Mexican truffles come to T.O.
• Canadian chef Michael Smith, one of the Food Network’s biggest stars, was recently appalled to find that a fake Michael...
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In its 20th year, Feast of Fields is better than ever—and we have the pictures to prove it
No, Jamie Kennedy , we couldn’t possibly eat another. Those heirloom tomato, arugula and crispy pancetta BLTs were...
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Truffles to close: Toronto’s grandfather of fine dining bites the dust after 37 years
After nearly four decades of obsequious service and high-end dining, the Four Seasons' restaurant Truffles announced that it will...
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The Roosevelt Room takes the supper club back to the future
Another supper club is opening in the Entertainment District, but before the eye rolling commences, note that The Roosevelt Room...
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Bud Lite makers sue Ontario craft brewer, the anatomy of a restaurant closure, rice-pairing guide
• The Star reports that Ontario beer maker Brick Brewing Co. is being sued for copyright infringement by the makers of Bud Light...
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Dominic Amaral leaves Madeline’s, Jason Carter takes over
After working under Susur Lee for nine years, head chef Dominic Amaral has left his post at Madeline’s and is now working at...
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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
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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