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Fifteen host gift ideas we love
A Toronto-themed candle, a marble butter keeper and more fun finds for party season
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Superchef Supper Club: Victor Barry and Marc Thuet serve bison and bear for two nights at Splendido
Toronto chefs have become remarkably mobile, flying from food events to pop-ups to guest-chef gigs with the ease of musicians...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Union, Origin Liberty and Aria
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
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Friday Night Bites: Edulis, Actinolite and Origin
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: can I lodge a complaint when fellow restaurant patrons start photographing their food?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I were enjoying our 35-year anniversary at Scaramouche, until the young couple at the table next...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
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Captain John’s Restaurant succumbs to the stormy seas of unpaid back taxes
The ongoing debt and legal issues at Captain John’s Harbour Boat Restaurant, the iconic marine eatery docked at the foot of...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
Food & Drink
See every course of the R.M.S. Titanic’s final first-class dinner (meticulously recreated by a food blogger)
April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and Titanic -mania has become pretty much unavoidable:...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is arriving late to parties just part of Toronto culture?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved to Toronto from Tokyo about a year ago. Maybe it’s just a difference in cultures, but no one shows...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: at this month’s TBD dining series, Acadia’s Matt Blondin let loose
TBD is a monthly dining series that brings some of the city’s top chefs together with one of the foodie world’s current...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: What do I do when my friends pay for dinner but stiff the server on the tip?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I went with another couple to Celestin, where we’re regular patrons. The service was...
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Best of the City 2011: The city’s most interesting dishes, places to eat them and, yes, hot sauce
Baguette Pasta Fad Hot Sauce Lobster reinvented Carnivore cure Roast chicken Devilled eggs Patio for dessert Woodlot 293...
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VIDEO: In our favourite reaction to yesterday’s hotpocalypse, the Star’s Chris So cooks a roast in his sedan
While most cubicle dwellers burrowed themselves away in the cool confines of their A.C.-blasting offices during yesterday’s...
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Toronto chefs and Ontario wineries join forces for Japan earthquake relief dinner
In response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week, a number of Toronto chefs and Ontario wine...
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Modern comforts: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Woodlot and Ici Bistro
Two neighbourhood restaurants serve up light-handed renditions of our rib-sticking favourites The comfort food revolution has...
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Good Stuff Cheap: four standout dinner dates for penny pinchers
FOR A CINQ À SEPT Devoted locavores should head to Beast after work Wednesday through Friday, when former Jamie Kennedy chefs...
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12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
Big-spending downtown Torontonians have taken in the past few years to whining about Winterlicious, but the two-week dining...
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Just Opened: we review seven of the city’s new restaurants
Hotel comforts, inhalable grilled cheese and epically hot servers THE COUNTER 550 Wellington St. W., 416-640-7778 Set within the...
Culture
Spotted! Clint Eastwood having dinner
One of our sources spotted Clint Eastwood dining at the Windsor Arms Hotel last night. His film, Hereafter, premiered in Toronto...
Food & Drink
Nine amazing kitchen gadgets from Toronto’s restaurant kitchens
We’re all for home-cooked meals and comfort food, but let’s face it: people go to restaurants to order stuff they can’t...
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Introducing: Brockton General, Dundas West’s new snack bar
Adding to the influx of small, simple restaurants in the city is Dundas West’s week-old, low-key snack bar Brockton General...
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Best of the City 2010: 14 picks for the top food in Toronto
Korean feast Owl of Minerva 700 Bloor St. W., 416-538-3030 The trendy Asian cuisine of the moment is at its most authentic when...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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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
Deep Dives
“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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
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