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A first look inside Paul Boehmer’s eponymous Ossington restaurant (and details of his new Dean and Deluca-esque retail shop)
Paul Boehmer' s soon-to-open restaurant is like the cherry on top of the Ossington sundae. The eponymous eatery was one of the...
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Food & Drink
Five 2010 trends to watch: we ask Jamie Kennedy, Anthony Walsh, David Lee and other chefs what to look for in the coming year
It’s no secret that 2009 was rough for restaurants—“It’s a year a lot of restaurateurs are happy to see go,” says C5...
Food & Drink
No-reservations policies drive people outdoors, crazy
Capitalizing on one of the more frustrating dining trends, the Globe writes about the no-reservations policies at such restaurants...
Food & Drink
The world’s most outrageous foods, why winter tomatoes are hateful, calorie labels might actually be effective
• A new study at Stanford University confirms that in-restaurant calorie counts change eating behaviour. In New York, where the...
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Food & Drink
Trouble stewing at the Spice Room?
It seems like just yesterday that we spoke with Greg Couillard at the Spice Room about his trips to Toronto to prepare special...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ciao Wine Bar mixes South Beach and Italy, and moves it all to Yorkville
For Ciao Wine Bar, its newest high-octane hub, the Liberty Entertainment Group has shaken up the formula that has served them well...
Food & Drink
J.P. Challet returns to the Windsor Arms
More than a decade after he reopened the restaurant at the Windsor Arms, French chef J.P. Challet is returning to revamp the...
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Food & Drink
Now unable to eat or drink, Roger Ebert remembers the joy of dining
Food news rarely comes by way of Roger Ebert, but the film critic recently wrote rather poignantly for the Chicago Sun Times about...
Food & Drink
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...
Style
The best shopping on the Mount Pleasant strip
The Mount Pleasant strip isn’t exactly the next hot ’hood or the new Queen West or the developer district du jour. No, Mount...
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Food & Drink
Carman’s Dining Club steak house finally put out of its misery
Arthur Carman' s storied and troubled steak house on Alexander Street went into hibernation this summer, never to wake up. This...
Food & Drink
Seven hundred things restaurant customers should never do: servers react to Bruce Buschel’s rules for wait staff
Well, it was bound to happen. The waiter-baiting, quip-slinging, hair-pulling, soup-spitting fight presently underway over Bruce...
Food & Drink
Michelle Obama on Iron Chef, Lea and Perrins recipe revealed, Canada’s cod comeback
• What is the best way to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Serious Eats recommends burying it in a shallow grave—a pie...
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Top 10 food mascots, how to make Worcestershire sauce, Sarah Silverman urges Pope to sell Vatican
• Slashfood lists the 10 “most awesome” food mascots of all time. The selections are pretty solid—they include the Jolly...
Food & Drink
Five no-sweat Thanksgiving meals
Attention, time-crunched turkey lovers. This weekend, some of Toronto’s top chefs and gourmet shops are offering no-fuss...
Food & Drink
Localicious: frugality knows no season
We’re surprised it took so long for another “-licious” event to spring up between Summerlicious and Winterlicious, but here...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Joey Don Mills
At first we were hesitant to write about yet another big box “casual fine dining” establishment with dark wood...
Food & Drink
Airlines get into cocktail making, tattooing food, foodies vs. “foodiots”
• In an effort to improve the labelling of food, the American Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing fruits and...
Culture
The fun dozen stop: our top 12 TIFF tales
This Saturday night, TIFF volunteers will roll up the red carpet for the last time in 2009. With the festival’s imminent...
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Culture
TIFF weekend round-up: the top 10 stories from the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11 to 13
1. We chat with George Clooney at the Men Who Stare at Goats after party on the Bridle Path 2. Jennifer Connelly is torn apart by...
Culture
Was George Clooney dining at Jack Astor’s?
Prego Della Piazza , Sotto Sotto, Giancarlo Trattoria …Mamma Mia! Where does George Clooney eat his pasta? Apparently, Jack...
Food & Drink
The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
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Here comes the Rain again: a peek inside Guy and Michael Rubino’s Ame
After over six months of renovations and about two months of delay, Guy and Michael Rubino' s Rain has been reborn as Ame...
Culture
Goodbye, Yorkville, our old friend: A peek inside TIFF’s skeletal new home, the Bell Lightbox
Although the Toronto International Film Festival won't be settling into its new home until this time next year, last week we...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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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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