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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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