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To get to his new restaurant, Origin, Claudio Aprile goes around the world to travel one block
Though Claudio Aprile' s new restaurant, Origin, isn’t slated to open until early 2010, the edgy chef had us in to play guinea...
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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
Toward a better booze-scape: seven egg-infused creations boost Toronto’s cocktail comeback
For years, Torontonians returning from Chicago and New York brought tales of their cocktail adventures—stories typically...
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Michelle Obama on Iron Chef, Lea and Perrins recipe revealed, Canada’s cod comeback
• What is the best way to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Serious Eats recommends burying it in a shallow grave—a pie...
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Airlines get into cocktail making, tattooing food, foodies vs. “foodiots”
• In an effort to improve the labelling of food, the American Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing fruits and...
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Cuban festival turns Queen Street into Castro Street—sort of
This weekend, West Queen West goes Cubano with the second annual Havana Cultura Festival. There will be music, cigar rolling...
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Four things every man needs to survive TIFF
Comfortable Dress Shoes After 10 days of partying, standing all night and walking everywhere, our dogs are barking, and we have an...
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Just Opened: Local Kitchen and Wine Bar
It takes guts to open a fledgling restaurant on a Parkdale strip during Toronto’s recent civil servant strike and this decidedly...
Culture
The lowest point in Yorkville is also the coolest: hanging with Clive Owen, Terry Gilliam and Michael Caine in the secret Bay Street Station
At the Harry Brown after-party last night, we were twisting prosciutto around our fingers and sipping Grey Goose martinis on the...
Culture
Willem Dafoe, blueberry cocktails and Salt ’n’ Pepa at W Studio
Not being on the guest list, we were a touch worried that we wouldn’t get in to the W Studio party, so we arrived early. Far too...
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Here comes the Rain again: a peek inside Guy and Michael Rubino’s Ame
After over six months of renovations and about two months of delay, Guy and Michael Rubino' s Rain has been reborn as Ame...
Culture
Skyy’s the limit: three celeb-inspired cocktails for TIFF
Culture
Oscar buzz, vodka and stalking advice doled out at the Hazelton Hotel
With two weeks left until the opening gala of the Toronto International Film Festival, reporters gathered at the Hazelton Hotel to...
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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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Graydon Carter’s terrifying lunch, fruit fly infestation, DIY pizza ovens
Cure all: the story of Niagara prosciutto maker Mario Pingue appears in the Star (Photo by stu_spivack)• Every Ontario gourmand...
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Miracle berries: a taste-bud tricking fruit finally comes to Toronto
On a tiny, ivy-wound patio in Parkdale, a group of 20 gastro adventurers and journalists crowd around a table set with big bowls...
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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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Splendido re-opens with lower prices and less champagne
Champagne is out and cocktails are in at the newly made-over Splendido, which opened Tuesday for dinner. “Everything but the pea...
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Just Opened: Ceili Cottage
“We did this totally back-asswards,” says Patrick McMurray of Ceili Cottage , the Irish pub he opened in Leslieville, and the...
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Panorama’s rooftop terrace readies for fire in the sky
The view from the Panorama Lounge —located on 51st floor of the Manulife Centre—is always impressive. But this week, its...
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Toronto’s most authentic mojitos
Torontonians are willing to slap the label “mojito” on just about any rum-based beverage containing mint. Cubans tell a...
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions