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Fidel Gastro’s
Food & Drink
All of the new greasy, meaty and cheese-covered menu items at the Air Canada Centre
Including stuff from Flock Rotisserie, Fidel Gastro and Porchetta and Co.
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Food & Drink
Here’s what’s on the Summer Wednesdays dinner menu at Evergreen Brick Works
Wood-fired cooking from Forno Cultura, beer from Collective Arts, food trucks and more
Food & Drink
Celebrate #FoodTruckFreedom Day at Nathan Phillips
Want to have lunch with the mayor? Then head to Nathan Phillips Square on May 13 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for a John...
Food & Drink
Pop-Up Pick: get Fidel Gastro’s sandwiches at Lisa Marie this Friday
It may not be food truck season yet, but on April 17 fans of sidewalk eats can get Fidel Gastro's sandwiches from its sister...
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Food & Drink
Say a final farewell to the Toronto Underground Market
Three years ago, before Toronto became one never-ending pop-up street-food fest, the Toronto Underground Market took over the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Lisa Marie, a new restaurant on Queen West from Fidel Gastro’s owner Matt Basile
Name: Lisa Marie Neigbourhood: Trinity Bellwoods Contact Info: 638 Queen St. W., 416-999-6822 Owner: Matt Basile Chef: Kris...
Culture
Video: a trailer for the new Fidel Gastro’s TV show, which debuts next week
Rebel Without a Kitchen is a new reality show that follows Toronto food trucker Fidel Gastro (a.k.a. Matt Basile ) as he hustles...
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Food & Drink
Fidel Gastro’s Matt Basile takes over Prague European Kitchen’s space on Queen
Matt Basile, the man behind the popular pop-up and food truck Fidel Gastro’s, has moved into 638 Queen Street West, the space...
Food & Drink
Trend we Love: Philly cheese steak, spotted in low- and middlebrow incarnations
Those who’ve grown weary of sanctimonious locavorism will welcome the sudden ubiquity of the Philly cheese steak on Toronto...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 1 to 7
Monday, October 1 Tuesday, October 2 Wednesday, October 3 Thursday, October 4 Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 17 to 23
Monday, September 17 Tuesday, September 18 Wednesday, September 19 Thursday, September 20 Friday, September 21 Saturday, September...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 10 to 16
Monday September 10 Tuesday September 11 Wednesday September 12 Thursday September 13 Friday September 14 Saturday September 15...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s new food truck, the roving home base of the rebel without a kitchen
Matt Basile launched his Fidel Gastro’s business last year as a roving pop-up operation. Yesterday, for a crowd of 300 or so, he...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 6 to 12
Monday, August 6 Tuesday, August 7 Wednesday, August 8 Thursday, August 9 Friday, August 10 Saturday, August 11 Sunday, August 12...
Culture
Fidel Gastro lands new reality TV show, Rebel Without a Kitchen
Matt Basile was working at a Toronto advertising firm before he quit, donned the punny moniker Fidel Gastro and set out to satisfy...
Food & Drink
The Stop’s first Beer Garden of 2012 brought out over 200 for Muskoka beer and Indonesian tacos
Despite threatening clouds, over 200 hundred people gathered at Wychwood Barns No. 4 this past Sunday afternoon for this year’s...
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Street Food Block Party recap: a night of food trucks, lobster rolls and very enthusiastic eaters
In a line that snaked around the Evergreen Brick Works, well over 3,000 street food enthusiasts waited patiently for the first...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s, the sandwich-toting pop-up revolutionary
2011 has been a big year for ephemeral eating in Toronto. There was the (sort of) rise of food trucks, the smash-hit Toronto...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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