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The Reign in Spain: five bottles of garnacha to get you through what’s left of winter
Grenache, or garnacha, is like the white T-shirt of the wine world: low-priced, beloved, and it goes with everything Garnacha is...
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Top Five: the best speakeasies in Toronto
These nightspots nail the trendy Boardwalk Empire vibe At the Parkdale gin mill Geraldine, pictured above, the retro cocktails are...
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Sparkling Personality: the best bubblies under 50 bucks a bottle
There’s nothing like French bubbly for swank luxury, but for everyday enjoyment, these international labels deliver great fizz A...
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Molson enters the busy Toronto brewpub scene with a new Creemore brewery and restaurant
Toronto's brewpub scene will soon have another big, corporate player. According to BlogTO, the Beer Academy brewery at 75 Victoria...
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A Bottle for All Reasons: because every holiday event goes better with wine
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Winter Beers: the top 10 craft beers hitting LCBO shelves this season
Winter beers are generally bigger, bolder and sweeter than their warm-weather counterparts. The LCBO's seasonal release, which...
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Small-Batch Wonders: gorgeous red wines that won’t break the bank
This party season, skip the show-offy bottles for reds with a little more nuance (and a lot less sticker shock) As the holidays...
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In Absinthia: where to sip the strong stuff in Toronto
The legendary wormwood liquor of green fairies, severed ears and global bans is in the midst of a revival. Here, three excellent...
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Globe-Trotting Whiskies: fermented grain mashes from everywhere but Scotland
Everyone knows that Scotland produces some of the best whisky on the planet, but the British isle isn’t the only country making...
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Alcoholism is no joke for the LCBO
— Alain Delaet , owner of Belgium’s Brouwerij Huyghe, speaking to the Star about the Ontario liquor seller's longstanding...
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Cocktails On Fire: the city’s best flaming beverages
There’s nothing subtle about the flaming accents on our new favourite sippers
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Labatt marketing memo talks about tricking people into thinking they’re buying craft beer
Earlier this week, Toronto-based beer blogger Ben Johnson obtained and published a marketing memo about Labatt, the once-Canadian...
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Autumn Brews: 10 cozy craft beers hitting LCBO shelves this fall
Ah, fall. Crisp air, cool nights, and big, hearty beers that’ll warm you up like a chunky sweater. This autumn’s...
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The new Bellwoods brewery may not have a bottle shop
Among the things people generally expect from their neighbourhood nanobreweries, some way of buying bottles to bring home is...
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How do you make a hi-tech cocktail?
At Rush Lane, the Queen West snack bar and experimental cocktail laboratory, Jordan Bushell and Simon Hooper craft complex...
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A new Parkdale brewpub is on its way
Soon every Toronto neighbourhood will have a resto-retail-brewery complex to call its own. The next up is Duggan's Brewery...
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Toronto liquor-license limbo finally ending
Yesterday, the city's licensing and standards committee voted to quash a rule requiring prospective liquor licensees to bolster...
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The Great White Way: five refreshing Mediterranean wines
Ultra-refreshing wines from the sun-baked eastern Mediterranean Toronto’s current love affair with cuisine from Lebanon, Greece...
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Two new brewpubs are coming to Liberty Village
Residents of the condo community are really into beer, or at least that's what a couple of new businesses are banking on. Earlier...
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What it’s like to spend Saturday night in a nightclub made entirely of ice
I'm thrilled to see an actual washroom when I arrive at Chill Ice House. This allays my very real fear of having to pee on a...
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Bellwoods Brewery set to expand by summer 2015
The team behind the Ossington brewery has announced plans to open a new production facility and restaurant at Dupont and...
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Six ways with smoothies, from the Big Carrot’s blending expert
Sarah Dobec, the liquid breakfast queen at the Big Carrot’s juice bar, whizzes up delectable recipes you’d never guess were...
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Pretty in Pink: six quality rosés to bring to the barbecue
Rosés are the thing to drink this summer—they’re dry, refreshing and a great match for the ’cue Now that rosé is...
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Introducing: Rush Lane, a modernist snack bar and booze laboratory on Queen West
Name: Rush Lane Contact Info: 563 Queen St. W., 416-551-7540, rushlaneto.com , facebook.com , @rushlaneco Neighbourhood: Queen...
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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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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
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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
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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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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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“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
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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