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The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
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Lai Wah Heen will close after Valentine’s Day—and hopefully reopen two weeks later
When Metropolitan Hotels announced the sale of the Metropolitan Hotel Toronto to the Bayview Hospitality Group last week, many...
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Holiday Feast Recipe: Apple-prune galette from Stock’s David Chow
David Chow is a master of sweets. He studied at Le Cordon Bleu and currently runs the pastry kitchen at Stock, on the 31st floor...
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Toronto’s shark fin ban is overturned by the courts
That didn’t last long: on Friday, the Ontario Superior Court overturned the ban on the sale of shark fins, which city council...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: dim sum for one at Cha Lau
Earlier this year, midtown dim sum staple Cha Liu relocated to a new teahouse-inspired room at Yonge north of College, and changed...
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Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in September
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Stinky tofu, octopus balls and a midway greeted revellers at this year’s T&T Waterfront Night Market
What smells like rotting garbage and brings out block-long line-ups? Stinky tofu at an Asian food festival, of course. T&T...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 7: casseroled
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: refined dim sum for two at Crown Princess on Bay
In the pantheon of Toronto dim sum restaurants, Bay Street’s Crown Princess is decidedly among the more refined options. The...
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Nick Liu shows off some culturally promiscuous cooking at the preview dinner for his new restaurant, GwaiLo
Earlier this year, chef Nick Liu left Niagara Street Café to launch GwaiLo, a modern Asian brasserie-to-be with business partner...
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Must-Try: Bannock’s pickerel taco, the city’s most elaborate steamed bun
From the description on the menu, Bannock’s pickerel taco (which stretches the definition of the term taco) sounds like the work...
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Ben and Jerry’s finds a new ethnic stereotype to project onto Jeremy Lin
Sure, most people thought the media frenzy surrounding basketball phenom Jeremy Lin hit rock bottom with ESPN’s already-infamous...
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Nick Liu to throw a pair of preview dinners for his new Asian brasserie, GwaiLo
Back in January, we reported that Nick Liu had left Niagara Street Café and was planning to open some manner of Asian brasserie...
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Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
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Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
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Mississauga council puts the brakes on its shark fin ban
Back in October, Mississauga beat Toronto to the punch in banning the sale of shark fins, and on Wednesday, it beat Toronto to the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a weekday feast for two at Chinatown’s newest dim sum restaurant
Up on the third floor of an old Chinese mall on the south side of Dundas sits Dim Sum King, a new Chinatown spot that serves...
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Chinatown restaurants receive threatening letters over shark fins
Ever since the city banned shark fin products in October, the Toronto Chinese Business Association has received hundreds of...
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Toronto bans shark fin products; sharks everywhere rejoice
Yesterday city council voted in favour of banning the sale of shark fin products within the limits of Toronto. The proposal passed...
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Council to vote on shark fin ban today
City council is set to vote later today on whether to ban shark fin products in Toronto, an issue that came to our attention when...
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Introducing: Cold Tea, a new Kensington Market bar that nods to a venerable Chinatown tradition
Tucked into the back of the Kensington Mall, down the hallway past the knick-knack peddlers, is Cold Tea, the market’s newest...
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Much loved, decades-old Yen Ching Palace replaced by much loved, decades-old Pearl restaurant
Fans of Pearl Harbourfront will be able to enjoy the same experience (sans harbour view) in Bayview Village after the restaurant...
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City staff: banning the sale of shark fins pretty much impossible for Toronto
After the City of Brantford banned all foods that included shark fin—an ingredient culled from endangered species and...
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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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