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Mariah Carey champagne, U.K. considers butter ban, Kraft and Cadbury to merge
• U.K. heart surgeon Shyam Kolvekar will be less popular at the nation’s morning fry-ups after his suggestion that butter...
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Food & Drink
Man gets 10 years for stealing steak, a chocolate Great Wall, floor collapses at Weight Watchers meeting
• Mark Zachary of Orangeburg, South Carolina, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing an $80 New York strip...
Food & Drink
The meat-free Yorkshire pudding, Toronto’s gut-warming cocktails, Bonnie Stern’s favourite apps
• Going meatless at certain times of the year, like Christmas, might mean passing on foods like Yorkshire pudding cooked in beef...
Food & Drink
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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Champagne declared healthy, Adam Platt picks the best tinned soups, least popular holiday chocolates
• ’Tis the season for warm, hearty food—even canned soup. New York ’s chief restaurant critic, Adam Platt, does a blind...
Food & Drink
Twelve Treats of Christmas: amazing edible (or drinkable) gifts for the indulgent epicure
Now is the time of year when Toronto’s patisseries and food shops offer a tremendous selection of goodies that cater to the most...
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
Michelle Obama on Sesame Street, coffee spared tax hike, chocolate cures stress
• Michelle Obama dropped by Sesame Street on the show’s 40th anniversary to chat with a basket of anthropomorphic vegetables...
Food & Drink
Twelve new indie cafés: Toronto’s thirst for coffee poured by hipsters proves unquenchable (for now)
As Starbucks attempts to boost profits with its instant coffee and Tim Hortons ’ profits tumble , Toronto’s indie café craze...
Food & Drink
Murder at New Generation Sushi, Kraft makes a move on Cadbury, portable tables for street food
• What began as a minor argument between two employees at New Generation , a popular stop along the Annex’s sushi...
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Food & Drink
Chocolate inhalers, the science of wine pairing, debunking swine flu food claims
• A new inhaler that allows users to taste chocolate without chewing or eating has struck a chord with consumers, having sold...
Food & Drink
Iceland loses its McDonald’s, This Is Why You’re Fat gets book deal, Top Chef spinoff coming to Bravo
• Icelanders looking for a fast-food fix will have to look somewhere other than McDonald’s. Bloomberg News reports that...
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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Halloween comes early at the Toronto Chocolate Festival
Adults wanting to satisfy their sweet tooths (but who are unwilling to pass themselves off as a kid on Halloween) can find their...
Food & Drink
The Twitter diet, the best cheese in the world, the truth behind coffee’s contents
• Wired magazine breaks down what’s in a cup of coffee, including the good, the bad and the ugly. On the plus side, it’s...
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Nadège Patisserie sends its desserts down the catwalk
Nadège Patisserie continues to find original ways of flogging pastries to Torontonians. Last week, the Queen West shop held a...
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Culture
The IT Lounge is where media go to swig back hangover juice and chase with vodka
Please mum, can I have a sweater? The objective of a gifting lounge is to connect George Clooney with a Sharpie marker, Woody...
Food & Drink
How to cook a pig’s head, the chocolate-and-meat trend, restaurants bribe Yelp users
• British chef Fergus Henderson , who espouses a nose-to-tail philosophy when it comes to eating animals, appears in a new video...
Food & Drink
Truffles to close, the KFC “float-thru,” 64,373 kilometres of Twinkie wrapper
• Truffles, one of Toronto’s most revered fine-dining institutions, will serve its last meal on September 5. Four Seasons...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Sweet Flour Bake Shop
Kim Gans, the owner of Sweet Flour Bake Shop, is not from around here. We don’t just mean that she’s from Cleveland (she...
Food & Drink
Viagra in energy drinks, Tim Hortons expands in NYC, man dies in chocolate vat
• A 29-year-old man died Wednesday after falling into a vat of chocolate at a New Jersey candy factory. Not the most dignified...
Food & Drink
Open season: Moroco Chocolat unveils its summer patio
We expected an evening of mocha-fuelled madness at the opening of Yorkville’s Moroco Chocolat ’s patio last week. Instead we...
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Food porn reflections, $5 lunches, bargain lobsters
• Restaurants are slowly finding their way through the quagmire of the economic downturn. The latest development? Many chains...
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Crustacean celebrations, Vaseline pie crusts, Sean Avery’s new bar
• Plummeting lobster prices and reduced demand are prompting P.E.I. mayors to encourage the rest of the country to hold lobster...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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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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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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