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Corey Mintz
Food & Drink
The mushroom rendang at Fat Choi is a meatless marvel. Here’s how much it costs to prepare
Cutting meat from the list of food costs is no shortcut to a significantly higher per-dish profit
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Food & Drink
Here’s how much it actually costs to make brisket, ribs and sausage at Adamson Barbecue
Because when you order any restaurant dish, you're paying for more than just what's on your plate
Food & Drink
Toronto’s secret pasta speakeasy is now officially open for business
Famiglia Baldassarre’s members-only lunch counter is one of Toronto's best little food secrets
Food & Drink
Takeaway Tales: Is Luckee’s dim sum as good at home as in the restaurant?
We're taste-testing popular delivery dishes and evaluating the apps that bring the food to your door
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Takeaway Tales: Is Kinton Ramen as good at home as in the restaurant?
We're taste-testing popular delivery dishes and evaluating the apps that bring the food to your door
Food & Drink
Lunch Lesson: five essential dishes that tell the story of Toronto’s Chinatown
From shrimp with lobster sauce to Peking duck
Food & Drink
Lunch Lesson: Getting schooled on Hakka Indian cuisine at Yueh Tung
"What you’re tasting is a legacy of war, colonialism, border conflict, unlawful imprisonment and migration"
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Food & Drink
“I forgot how much I love this food”: Author Lily Cho explains the joy of the “generic Chinese” restaurant
Corey Mintz learns the power of a good chow mein from author and professor Lily Cho
Food & Drink
Lunch lesson: Getting schooled on noodles by two U of T profs in Chinatown
Corey Mintz gets schooled on noodles by two U of T profs
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Brit restaurant critic Giles Coren on why people should give Rob Ford a break
— Giles Coren, the notoriously prickly British restaurant critic, not-totally-surprisingly came out as a Ford defender at a...
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Food & Drink
Canadians are clawing Greek yogurt off grocery store shelves
Now that Greek yogurt has conquered the American market, the creamy treat is making (low-sodium, high-protein) waves across...
Food & Drink
We dropped by the Great Toronto Tartare-off to discover a meatetarian frenzy
Last night, Grapes for Humanity corralled some of the city’s top culinary talent under one roof (that of the Fairmont Royal York...
City News
Won’t the real Corey Mintz please stand up?
One of the more surreal moments in yesterday’s already-pretty-surreal termination proceedings of TTC chief general manager Gary...
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We engage in a little armchair speculation about who’s behind Chef Grant Soto
Who is the real “Chef Grant Soto”? The rumors started almost as soon as the oft-offensive and always entertaining Twitter...
Food & Drink
La Carnita’s Andrew Richmond shopping for permanent digs
After drawing monster crowds for his La Carnita pop-ups, it seems design-director-cum-roving-taco-man Andrew Richmond is scouting...
Food & Drink
Covert deep dish pizza parlour has cover blown on opening day
The city has a new underground restaurant: Parlour Deep Dish Pizza, whose pies can only ordered through a minimalist website. Its...
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The next stage in the saga of the former Hoof Café: the Black Hoof Cocktail Bar
Back in June, we reported that Jen Agg and Grant van Gameren ’ s ambitious plans to launch Black Hoof and Company this spring in...
Food & Drink
Five things we learned about O&B from Corey Mintz’s behind-the-scenes feature
With the recent announcement that Toronto’s ever-growing food service company Oliver and Bonacini Restaurants is set to make The...
Food & Drink
Goodbye Hoof Café, hello Black Hoof and Company
After just over a year of bone marrow doughnut holes and lineups out the door, Toronto's most unabashedly carnivorous brunch...
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Young people resort to subterfuge to learn cooking secrets from Corey Mintz
When teenagers lie about their age, they are usually trying to get into a club or buy a skull-shaped bottle of vodka . Not the...
Food & Drink
Corey “Snooty Elitist” Mintz allegedly seeks roommate through Craigslist
Last week, the Star ’s former food critic and current columnist Corey Mintz —or someone pretending to be Corey Mintz—posted...
Food & Drink
Corey Mintz cooks dinner of Froot Loops and beets for Scott Thompson
In the latest instalment of his cooking for fairly famous people series, Toronto Star writer Corey Mintz invites Kids in the Hall...
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Corey Mintz to Toronto’s Guu fans: chill out
Corey Mintz thinks Torontonians need to get a grip—at least on our obsession with Guu , the city’s offshoot of the...
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David Miller to Corey Mintz and carbohydrates: “Bugger off”
David Miller will walk out of city hall a changed man, having lost 50 pounds and the approval of most Torontonians. We can draw...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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