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Cocktails
Food & Drink
Recipe: Lucien Gaudin, a citrusy cocktail from the Toronto Temperance Society
PREP TIME: 2 minutes Serves 1 LUCIEN GAUDIN 1 oz gin, preferably Plymouth ½ oz Campari ½ oz dry vermouth ½ oz Cointreau Stir...
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Recipe: Normandier, a finely tuned Calvados cocktail from GwaiLo’s Christina Kuypers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days Serves 1 SPICED APPLE SHRUB 2 cups water 2 cinnamon sticks...
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Foodie Find: potent Xocolatl Mole bitters
A couple dashes of the right bitters can elevate a mere mixed drink into a true cocktail. The Xocolatl Mole bitters from...
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Toronto Life Cookbook: 10 delicious tequila cocktails from the Reposado team
Owners Sandy and Catherine MacFadyen and bartender Jan Ollner make up Reposado’s stellar tequila team. Here, a slate of...
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Bartender Moses McIntee is leaving Museum Tavern
After helping launch Museum Tavern last summer, peripatetic bartender Moses McIntee (Ame, Paese, Lucid) has accepted a gig as...
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Five spicy, soul-warming Toronto cocktails to lure you out of hibernation
These Toronto cocktails, loaded with spices, fruits and syrups, are perfectly calibrated to take the edge off a cold, dreary...
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Osteria dei Ganzi set to open on Jarvis next month
Italian restaurant names come and go in waves. In the ’90s, everything was a “trattoria” or a “ristorante.” Now, a new...
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10 deliciously boozy Toronto cocktails for $10 or less
Somehow, we’re not sure when exactly, we became inured to $16 cocktails in Toronto. So much so that anything for $10 or less has...
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26 of the best Toronto happy hour specials
Happy hours have a weird history in straight-laced Ontario. The province first allowed the practice in 1981, only to ban it three...
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The Find: festive party clothes to wear to holiday bashes
December is usually a swirling mess of office parties, open houses, cocktails with friends and family dinners. While we can’t...
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New Reviews: Museum Tavern, Moo Milk Bar and Riverside Public House
An old-timey bar, fancified fried chicken and haute milk and cookies Museum Tavern ½ 208 Bloor St. W., 416-920-0110 Walking into...
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Best of Fall 2012: fall cocktails from Suits, Enoteca Sociale and the Harbord Room
Fall picks from three hooch heros (Images: Emma McIntyre)
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Introducing: Nikai, the Momofuku complex’s new bar and lounge
The Momofuku complex’s second floor is home to a waiting area that overlooks the bustling Noodle Bar and to Nikai, a bar and...
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Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 places to eat
Amid the cocktail swilling and celebrity gawking, eating can be an afterthought during TIFF. Good news: there are plenty of...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
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Introducing: Sauce on the Danforth, a new east end bar with classic cocktails and 17 craft beers on tap
The roaring ’20s (or at least some version of them) have been roaring back for the last few years, with TV shows like HBO’s...
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Introducing: Rakia Bar, a shiny new Queen East spot devoted to a traditional Balkan drink
Serbian-Canadian Dušan Varga’ s Rakia Bar cannot be easily pigeonholed as an ethnic bar. Sure, you may hear Goran Bregović...
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Best of the City 2012: the top 10 places to go and things to do for a good time in Toronto
Pinball Café 1662 Queen St. W., 416-402-7932 In an era where almost every amusement has been shrunk to fit on a smart phone, this...
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Introducing: Museum Tavern, a classic American brasserie right across from the ROM
Taking trips together to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, brothers Kyle and Glen Kristenbrun fell in love with classic...
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New Reviews: Paulette’s Original Donuts and Chicken, Farmhouse Tavern and Origin Liberty
A doughnut shop, a Junction farmhouse and Claudio Aprile’s Origin story Paulette’s Original Donuts and Chicken 913 Queen...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 20 to 26
Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 22 Thursday, August 23 Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Sunday, August...
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All Mixed Up: SpiritHouse’s Brad Gubbins mixes a Man of Interest
Founded by the Toronto Institute of Bartending’ s Len Fragomeni, SpiritHouse is a King West bar and lounge that features a...
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Introducing: Handlebar, The Avro’s new big sister bar in Kensington Market
It took two years, but Rachel Conduit and Bruce Dawson’ s vision has now outgrown the confines of their first watering hole, the...
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Prince Edward Bounty: a hedonist’s guide to eating and drinking in Ontario wine country
In Prince Edward County, $1.3 million buys a lot of real of estate—an entire 19th-century inn, to be precise. That’s how much...
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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
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
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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
Deep Dives
“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