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Fisherman’s Friends: Chris Nuttall-Smith reviews Maléna and The Atlantic
The season’s most anticipated openings are two seafood-centric spots Toronto is a raw bar town. We’re over-served by excellent...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Lai Wah Heen
This legendary haute Chinese kitchen delivers a full—and fully delicious—dim sum experience in less than an hour The place:...
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Introducing: Scarpetta, the Thompson Hotel’s New York restaurant import
Chef Scott Conant had never thought of opening a restaurant in Toronto, but when he was approached by the Thompson Hotel group and...
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Michael Stadtländer and Jamie Kennedy walk away with new Governor General’s Cuisine Awards
The Governor General’s Awards, heretofore known for honouring the best in Canadian academics and arts, have added a new category...
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Canada struts its stuff in million-dollar purchase of every ad in the New Yorker
As the G8 and G20 summits loom, now is apparently the time to remind Americans that we’re not backward hicks who while away the...
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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 Thompson Hotel’s new 24-hour diner has a touch of Madeline’s
When the Thompson Hotel opens later this month on Wellington, it will not only offer the inn crowd a swanky place to sleep and be...
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J.P. Challet leaves the Windsor Arms (again) to pick up the pieces at Ici Bistro (again)
Master chef J.P. Challet is leaving the Windsor Arms Hotel ’s Prime just five months into his tenure —and nine years after...
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Marijuana and haute cuisine: Toronto chefs on how some top kitchens are going to pot
The correlation between marijuana and the munchies is no secret, but a New York Times article that went viral a few weeks ago is...
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The Fixe Is In: James Chatto on Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, Ruby Watchco
At Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, customers eat whatever she feels like cooking that day. The concept is bold and bossy, but...
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Just Opened: La Palette, Queen West edition
The new outpost of La Palette on Queen West has much in common with the Kensington Market original: a nearly identically sized...
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Eataly coming to Toronto? Rumours swirl amid explained puns and subtle cultural insensitivity
Oscar Farinetti was in town this weekend, scouting possible locations and looking for a financial partner to help him open...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Pizzeria Libretto
In the evening, diners will wait for hours to eat at this Ossington pizza shop. At lunch, however, the food is just as spectacular...
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The inn crowd: Toronto’s five new luxury hotels
Over the next couple of years, this city will get five new luxury hotels. It starts with the Thompson, which opens its...
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Two Canadian restaurants make the S. Pellegrino top 100
The much-anticipated list of S. Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants 2010 was announced in London yesterday in front of the...
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Madeline’s massive make-over: name changes, construction and the return of Susur Lee
Don’t panic at the sight of shuttered windows at Madeline’s. The place closed on April 10 but will re-emerge in early June as...
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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: Ruby Watchco, Lynn Crawford’s much-anticipated restaurant
After years of manning other people’s kitchens (the Manhattan Four Seasons), reinventing other people’s restaurants (...
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Brassaii’s relaunch comes with new design, new menus and new chef
This week marked the long-awaited reopening of King West institution Brassaii , and judging from the extensive menu redesign, the...
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A peek inside Parts and Labour, a new Parkdale restaurant that unites owners of The Social, Oddfellows and Castor Design
First Cowbell , then Local Kitchen , and now this. With the arrival of Parts and Labour, a hardware store transformed into a...
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Famous frites not on menu at Jamie Kennedy’s Gilead
Jamie Kennedy had a rough year in 2009: he sold Hank’s and the Wine Bar, his Gardiner Museum restaurant took a more casual...
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Captain John’s floating restaurant still up for sale
Novelty boat-restaurant Captain John's has managed to stay afloat for decades despite a history of legal issues, debt and poor...
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Toronto’s most extravagant Japanese dining experience
Masaki Hashimoto’ s incredibly arcane kaiseki restaurant is unique in North America. As James Chatto writes, for $300 a...
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Party like it’s 1984: a retrospective of food at the Eaton Centre
It’s not breaking news, but that’s what makes this commercial for the Toronto Eaton Centre so great. Well, that and it gives...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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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