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Weekly Lunch Pick: Marben’s Monday brunch
The revamped Wellington West hot spot nails that perfect brunch ratio of sweet to savoury—even on Monday The place: Marben’s...
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LCBO alerts province: people like to drink in good weather
The Toronto Star 's Weather360 blog has an interesting post up about something near and dear to our hearts: the great weather this...
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Best of the City 2010: four top new venues to drink, dance and party
variation on bottle service Brooklynn 1186 Queen St. W., 416-536-7700 A request for bottle service, that ostentatious nightclub...
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Introducing: Boutique Bar, Church Street’s new cocktail bar
For a year and a half, French competitive mixologist Julien Salomone and his wife, Haligonian Devon Salomone , combed the city for...
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The Toronto Temperance Society: College Street’s “secret” speakeasy
There may be no decoy phone booth in the vein of New York’s secret bar, Please Don’t Tell , but a door on College Street...
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The latest on Susur Lee’s new restaurant: a name, a hallway and more
After weeks of speculation, we can finally report that Susur Lee' s new restaurant—the one opening in the same space as the...
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Just Opened: Oliver and Bonacini Café Grill. We take a peek inside the empire’s new downtown outpost
Calling dibs on a bit of real estate at Yonge and Front is a savvy move. The restaurants of Michael Bonacini and Peter Oliver keep...
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A photographic tour of one of Toronto’s best brunch menus
A mere six months after opening, the brunch at the Hoof Café has become the city's most coveted (witness the lineups snaking out...
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Get outside: Toronto’s 10 best patios
The patio season started early this year, which simply means there's more time to hit the city's best al fresco dining and...
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The Kimchee Effect: four dishes that deliver a Korean kick
Why fiery Korean flavours are getting even hotter Manhattan’s punk rock chef , David Chang of Momofuku fame, has almost...
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Mixed-up mixology: sip Mr. Big, Harry Goldenblatt and Steve Brady
Earlier this week, we reported on the Sex and the City– themed classes at Extreme Fitness, in which women work out in high...
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Cinq 01 adds its own boozy weekend menu to College Street’s already crowded brunchscape
Fresh from bringing the party back to College Street, Cinq 01 is now stepping up to continue the area’s brunch tradition. The...
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Just Opened: OurHouse, a bar with one of the last licences on Ossington
One of the most valuable slips of paper in the city is a liquor licence for premises on Ossington Avenue, and Anthony Siniscalco...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Suck it, Montreal: two Toronto restaurants make it onto Food and Wine’s “best 100 experiences” list
In the ongoing battle over which city is Canada’s best for food, Toronto has gained some new bragging rights. The latest issue...
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Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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Just Opened: What Are You Looking At, an east-end bar with a west-end vibe
Israel Sanchez and Stephan Poquet looked around Leslieville and saw a neighbourhood that has plenty of places to grab a drink, but...
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Two vices are better than one: Toronto’s cafés break out the booze
If we’re to believe Leah McLaren, the MacBook army has totally colonized Toronto’s coffee shops. Now, thanks to a new...
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Toronto gets in on the secret bar trend with a mysterious new spot from Sidecar’s owners
Toronto has been slow to get in on the underground nightclub trend underway in San Francisco and New York, but that’s all about...
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World bitters shortage, the end of “foodie,” early bird specials as youth fad
• A hiatus at the Angostura Bitters plant in Trinidad has resulted in a paucity of the boozy drink ingredient at American...
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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...
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Just Opened: Guu Izakaya slings Japanese beer and comfort food on Church Street
The year 2009 was an offal one in Toronto. The success of The Black Hoof , Buca and Local Kitchen showed that are many adventurous...
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Mustard ad made entirely of meat, debunking rumours of a Jennifer Aniston-Jamie Oliver partnership, the caloric overload of eggnog
• A Colman’s Mustard’s advertisement featuring Lord Kitchener’s face recreated with meat is making veggie boosters like...
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Just Opened: The Hoof Café melds Grant van Gameren’s charcuterie with brunch favourites and bar food
Last year, the Black Hoof ’s tiny kitchen ignited the city’s love of carnivorous delights with its bold charcuterie plates and...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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