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Claudio Aprile
Food & Drink
Chefs in the Burbs: Where Claudio Aprile eats in Oakville
His favourite spots for croissants, avocado toast and chocolate chip cookies
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Food & Drink
What’s on the Menu at Via Allegro Ristorante, an Etobicoke staple for Italian food with a new Claudio Aprile–designed menu
And a wine cellar 70,000 bottles deep
TL Insider
A Q&A with Xango’s Claudio Aprile, TL Insider’s chef-in-residence for March
See what he has in store for members this month
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their go-to neighbourhood restaurants and all-time favourite dishes
Spoiler alert: Edulis is pretty popular
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Food & Drink
Inside Market 63, downtown’s new 20,000-square-foot supermarket with its own restaurant and poutine bar
It's the new one-stop gourmet-grocery shop at One York
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Copetín, Claudio Aprile’s new restaurant in the old Origin St. James space
Even the patio has its own kitchen
Food & Drink
Chefs in the Burbs: The most popular hidden food gems of 2016
Including the favourite suburban haunts of Afrim Pristine, Claudio Aprile and Charles "Chowhound King" Yu
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Where Origin and
MasterChef Canada
’s Claudio Aprile eats in the burbs
His favourite restaurants and shops, and what he gets at each one
Food & Drink
Consumed: What chef and
MasterChef Canada
judge Claudio Aprile ate last week
"While I was on the phone, my steaks caught on fire"
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What’s behind the scenes on
MasterChef Canada
’s season three set
It's in a massive 42,000-square-foot (secret) location
Food & Drink
Recipe: Origin chef Claudio Aprile’s tropical “bangcakes”
PREP TIME: 33 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 6 (3 pancakes each). 1 400-mL can coconut milk CARAMEL ¾ cup granulated sugar...
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Origin Liberty replaced by Local Public Eatery, the latest big-box restaurant chain to hit Toronto
Last year, Claudio Aprile decided to close the Liberty Village outpost of his local Origin chain. West-end condo dwellers, it...
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Culture
See, Hear, Read: the seven releases you absolutely should not miss in February
When Atom Egoyan rolls camera, even the most lurid stories feel like high art. His new movie, Devil’s Knot, tackles the...
Culture
Masterchef Canada
Recap, episode 2: “That’s one messy orgasm”
Last week’s premiere of Masterchef Canada was in lockstep with the signature style of the franchise: hone in on emotional back...
Culture
Masterchef Canada
Recap, episode 1: Don’t mess with the maniac in the collarless pantsuit
Watching the Canadian version of a popular American reality show inevitably provokes feelings of self-consciousness—if not...
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Claudio Aprile’s Origin chain loses its Liberty Village location
Every time restaurateur and super chef Claudio Aprile opens a new restaurant, he seems to close one shortly after. Last year, he...
City News
Pearson Goes Posh: the most luxurious new features at the airport Toronto loves to hate
Is Pearson airport officially swanky? YYZ has a new fitness centre, a luxury shopping space in the works, and a handful of...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Origin North, the new uptown tapas restaurant from Claudio Aprile
Name: Origin North Neighborhood: Bayview Village Contact Info: 2901 Bayview Ave , www.originnorth.com , 416-479-8833 Owner and...
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Former Origin chef Steve Gonzalez is opening a new place for Latin American street food on King West
Best known as the beloved class clown on season one of Top Chef Canada, Steve Gonzales, a former chef de cuisine at Claudio...
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Slideshow: Claudio Aprile hosts a farewell dinner for Colborne Lane with six of his top alumni
Claudio Aprile closed Colborne Lane in February with little notice in order to focus on his growing stable of Origin...
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Claudio Aprile is convening Colborne Lane’s top alumni for one final dinner
Claudio Aprile, who announced the closure of Colborne Lane last month, is hosting a valedictory celebration for the molecularly...
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Claudio Aprile is closing Colborne Lane
Claudio Aprile, the chef and owner of Colborne Lane, revealed this afternoon that he’s closing his six-year-old restaurant, the...
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The 15 Toronto restaurants recommended in Where Chefs Eat, a new culinary guidebook
Where Chefs Eat is a new 633-page collection of answers to a very simple question: where to go for a good meal? Those answers are...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling