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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best butchers
The city’s top spots to shop for your next Sunday supper or barbecue session
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Inside Stock TC, Midtown’s new 20,000-square-foot food emporium from the owners of Terroni and Cumbrae’s
It's in the historic Postal Station K at Yonge and Eg
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12 of Toronto’s best pies
Our favourite seasonal pies—savoury and sweet—just in time for holiday feasts
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Inside the kitchen of Stuart Cameron, executive chef of Byblos, Patria and the brand-new Mira
A few of the things it's stocked with: pisco, chorizo, frozen pizza and Vegemite
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Inside the kitchen of Prince Edward County winemaker Norman Hardie
A few of the things it's stocked with: Marmite, maple syrup, and a whole lotta meat
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Inside the kitchen of Brandon Olsen and Sarah Keenlyside, the owners of La Banane and CXBO
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: chocolate, foie gras, butter and a bowl of Dungeness crabs
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Inside the kitchen of One’s pastry chef and chef de cuisine
A few things their kitchen is stocked with: champagne, homemade Jamaican patties and a ham pillow
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Inside the kitchen of chef and restaurateur Grant van Gameren
A few of the things it's stocked with: meat, canned fish and lots of mescal
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Inside the kitchen of the Tempered Room’s pastry chef Bertrand Alépée
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, candy, coconut bacon and a bunch of butter
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Inside the kitchen of new
Top Chef Canada
judge Chris Nuttall-Smith
A few of the things it's stocked with: Lay's chips, bean-and-cheese burritos and ground-up cricket larvae
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Shopping
Toronto’s best food shops right now
Where to find the city's best cheese, meat and preserves
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A few of Toronto’s weirdest PokéStops
Strip clubs, memorial plaques, and other fun places to stock up on Pokéballs
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Inside the kitchen of Piano Piano chef Victor Barry
A few of the things it's stocked with: roast chicken, fresh pasta and a "shit ton" of broccoli
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Inside the kitchen of Nota Bene chef David Lee
A few of the things it's stocked with: Bio-K, hemp hearts and homemade nut milk
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Top Five: the best butchers in Toronto
Boutique meat shops that sell impeccably sourced cuts Sanagan’s Meat Locker, Kensington Market’s cult-followed butcher...
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Cumbrae’s fancy meat shop is finally opening on West Queen West
For months now, the imposing cow to the left has been lording over the area surrounding 714 Queen West, on the block between...
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Flavour of the Month: Toronto’s 10 best meatballs
Toronto chefs are making meatballs in every variation known to humankind. Here, 10 spectacular, sloppy spheres. See all ten...
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Introducing: L’Avenue, a new modern bistro on Bayview
Opened recently on a strip of Bayview Avenue that’s best known for Satay on the Road and Hollywood Gelato, L’Avenue, a new...
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Haute Dogs: seven of the best sausages in the city
Innovative butchers are digging up old family recipes and mixing exotic meats with offbeat flavourings. Here, the city’s best...
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Introducing: F’Amelia, Cabbagetown’s cozy new Italian restaurant (with a kitchen of ex-Splendido chefs)
During the first week of operations for F’Amelia, a new Cabbagetown Italian restaurant owned by locals John Dawson (formerly of...
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Inside the meticulously organized fridge of David Lee, the co-owner and chef at Nota Bene
This is the most organized fridge we’ve ever seen. What’s going on here? David: My wife is a sergeant in the fridge. Jennifer:...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: Cowbell’s Mark Cutrara on the perfect patty
A great barbecued hamburger doesn’t taste like chipotle or paprika or horseradish. It tastes like beef. Cowbell chef Mark...
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Neighbourhood butchers gain popularity, sex appeal
Time to toss out the cliché image of the neighbourhood butcher as a balding, blood-soaked hulk. The National Post is reporting a...
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Toronto’s hidden brunch gems
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Deep Dives
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
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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
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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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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