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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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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
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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
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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
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Lunch Lesson: five essential dishes that tell the story of Toronto’s Chinatown
From shrimp with lobster sauce to Peking duck
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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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“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
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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
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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
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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
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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