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Instant pleasure? Starbucks replaces actual java with the just-add-water variety
When Starbucks invited us to The Drake for a big announcement last week, we instantly started dreaming up the next designer...
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Robot chefs, 10 best American restaurants, Whole Foods boycott
• Chinese restaurant chain I Robot is being picketed by chefs who say their robot counterparts—which each do the job of five...
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Anthony Rose and Alida Solomon team up for The Drake’s outdoor eat-fest
Despite being one of the most talked about West Queen West bars, the Drake Hotel always creates an atmosphere of being at our best...
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Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent
Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are...
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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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Utah’s last liquor licence, Eva Longoria opens restaurant, Heston Blumenthal’s perfect rating
• A global shortage has driven up the price of hops, turning it into a viable crop for small farmers again. For...
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State of the Union: Teo Paul talks about opening his Ossington restaurant
Inside Ossington Avenue’s long-awaited Union restaurant, diners find a Parisian oasis. The room smells of fresh baguettes, and...
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The best chef in the world, butchers as sex symbols, Drake wants to open a T.O. restaurant
• Rapper and Degrassi alum Drake says he wants to open a restaurant in Toronto, but he’s also planning another album and a few...
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Seth Rogen as Martin Picard, obtaining a perfect peach, America’s most bizarre restaurants
• The cool, rainy spring that kept tomatoes green has actually been good for the peach crop. The New Jersey Peach Council says...
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Best fast food, revolutionizing restaurant reservations, the true origins of haggis
• America’s star chefs have chosen In-N-Out Burger as their favourite fast food joint. Nine members of the 27-judge panel...
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Pilfering pizzas, beets for Barack, fretting over frogs’ legs
• Globe recipe writer Lucy Waverman has given Barack Obama what might be the weirdest birthday present he’ll receive this...
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Stop for Food, the summer’s other prix fixe festival, is underway
On the heels of yet another whine-infused Summerlicious (with the garbage strike adding fodder to the usual grumblings), Stop for...
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New York Times comes to T.O., Wolfgang Puck’s latest, farmer’s market secrets
• Sam Sifton , who takes over as New York Times restaurant critic in October, is already proving to be a funny guy. Blogging...
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Got Apricot? Five ways to use the summer’s newest superstar ingredient
Though apricots may seem like unlikely culinary hotshots the now in-season fruit is the new obsession of some of the city’s top...
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Canucks definitely not cuckoo for COCO book
Anthony Demetre of Wild Honey in London will fill the last spot on COCO ’s international list of 100 emerging chefs, bringing...
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Green tomatoes: five ways to make the most of an accidental crop
Weeks of chilly temperatures and relentless rain have slowed the growth of many local crops, but none have been worse hit than...
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Restaurant in a box, the life of a food stylist, haggling for wine discounts
• Move over poutine truck. Entrepreneur Daniel Noiseux has invented a solar-powered, 28-seat upscale restaurant in a box...
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Cookbook fracas: Susur Lee, Marc Thuet and other Toronto foodies displeased as Canadians left out of 100 Emerging Culinary Stars
The country’s top chefs and food writers are outraged that an upcoming book profiling the world’s 100 most promising chefs...
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101 summer salad recipes, Japanese screaming contest, drugs in restaurant kitchens
• Allegedly, it’s summer in Toronto, and that means the time is ripe for light, fun recipes. First up, 101 simple salads...
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Celiac disease on the rise, Jimmy Buffett’s new restaurant, a $246,250 lunch
• The Calgary Stampede seems like a perfect place for Canada’s first Margaritaville Café , especially considering Jimmy...
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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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Local cherries are here, but going fast
A rainy June delayed the season, but Ontario cherries are finally making their annual appearance in desserts across the...
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Camels as burgers, Jack Astor’s glory, McDonald’s goes green
• Baby camel burgers will join the ranks of Japanese whale sandwiches on a list of exotic food that drives PETA members...
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Food Wars: Montreal 14, Toronto 1
We want Terrence Henry ’s job. The Atlantic has asked him to explore North America in search of our continent’s best...
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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
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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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