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“We’re selling 1,500 burgers a week”: A Q&A with Alo chef Patrick Kriss, who turned Toronto’s fanciest restaurant into a takeout joint
"Obviously Alo isn’t a restaurant that we imagined with takeout in mind, but we’re in survival mode"
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All Downhill From Here: nine top-notch ski getaways
Ski-loving Torontonians have it rough. The city’s in a topographic dead zone. How else to explain hour-long lineups at The only...
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Edulis tops En Route’s Toronto-laden list of Canada’s best new restaurants
In her introduction to En Route’ s latest ranking of the country’s 10 best new restaurants, Sarah Musgrave declares 2012...
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The Way We Eat Now: how foraging infiltrated fine dining and became a foodie phenomenon
On a late-summer evening, I descended into the Don Valley with 50 well-to-do Torontonians—mostly middle-aged couples in...
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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...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 12, because fancy food is back
In the recession-stricken aughties, eating out in Toronto was a humble affair—chefs catered to thrifty diners by opening...
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Where to Eat Now 2012
The sprawling dining scene in Toronto is more diverse and promising than ever. This year, a handful of 20-something chefs who...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: Vote on the 10 trends in dining that we love and hate
We picked out ten trends that helped define dining in Toronto in 2012, and pronounced whether we loved them, hated them or had a...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: 10 trends in dining that we love and hate (or have a love-hate relationship with)
See the 10 trends » Vote on the 10 trends » (Images: Illustrations by Joe McKendry)
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Zagat’s 2012 survey picks Toronto’s best restos and settles that pesky average tipping question
Online restaurant review sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon may have cut into the crowd-sourced territory that Zagat once owned, but...
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Culinary team behind the Trump Tower’s new Stock restaurant is suitably well-stocked
When Stock, the flagship restaurant in the Trump International Tower, opens its doors next year, it will be one of the highest in...
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New Reviews: Café Belong, Elle M’a Dit and Estiatorio Volos
Farmers’ market fine dining at the Brick Works, stylish Greek food downtown and a proper bistro on Baldwin CAFÉ BELONG 550...
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Foodie film alert: A Matter of Taste follows 10 years in the life of Paul Liebrandt
In 2001, Paul Liebrandt —whose story is told in A Matter of Taste: Serving Paul Liebrandt, on now at the TIFF Bell...
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We chat with the winner of Top Chef Canada season one
We caught up with the winner of season one of Top Chef Canada last night shortly after the show aired to get their impressions on...
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Bringing Sexy Back: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Aria and Toca
After three years of restaurant restraint, Aria and Toca, two unabashedly flashy new spots, are giving diners a reason to get...
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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
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Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
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Muskoka’s Windermere House latest annexation in the ever-growing Oliver & Bonacini empire
After three new restaurant openings last year ( O&B Canteen , Luma and O&B Café Grill ), a $1 million facelift at Canoe and a...
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Empire state of mind: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Scott Conant’s Scarpetta
Celeb chef Scott Conant opened his third outpost of Scarpetta this summer. Too bad it looks, feels and tastes like a branch plant...
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RIP: Arthur Carman (1925-2010), the legendary restaurateur of Alexander Street
Arthur Carman, the renowned proprietor of Carman’s Dining Club, near Maple Leaf Gardens, passed away at his home Tuesday. He was...
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Full Throttle: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Parts and Labour
The Parkdale it spot is a raucous hybrid of fine dining and indie cheek. It’s loud, stylish and double-dares you to eat fried...
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Prime Steakhouse unveils its new chef’s new menu
Prime , that famed steakhouse at the Windsor Arms Hotel, has become a revolving door for chefs, of late. After executive Stephen...
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With a $500,000 renovation and new chef, Centro wants to be “taken seriously”
“Centro has always been good, but people have never come here for a gastronomical experience,” says owner Armando Mano as he...
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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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“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
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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
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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
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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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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand