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Inside Spanish Pig, a new gourmet food shop on Roncesvalles that sells fancy ham, preserved seafood and made-to-order sandwiches
It's jammed with jamón
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“I appreciate the vegan perspective”: A Q&A with the owner of the Spanish Pig, a specialty ham shop on Roncesvalles recently protested by animal rights activists
"They put paper on my windows before painting slogans on them, which was actually very considerate"
Food & Drink
Seven of our critic’s go-to gourmet shops for the holiday season
Cheese Boutique, Stasis Preserves and five other places for stocking the perfect pantry
Food & Drink
Mark McEwan’s gourmet grocery store is open in the PATH
Bay Street office-dwellers have a new 6,500-square-foot supermarket to forage in: gourmet grocer McEwan , owned by you-know-who...
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Get dinner to go from De la Mer’s new Danforth store
“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it,” reads the Lao Tzu quote scrawled onto a subway-tiled...
Food & Drink
Apiecalypse Now is Christie Pits’ new vegan pizzeria
Vegan pizza lovers, rejoice! Though Apiecalypse Now shuttered its Markham Street bakeshop, it recently reopened as a vegan pizza...
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Scoop Shop is Trinity Bellwoods’ new ice cream parlour
While you may not be allowed to crack a cold one in public, Scoop Shop , a new ice cream parlour at Dundas and Bathurst, is...
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Toronto gets its first Thai bakery
Patchmon's Thai Desserts & More , Toronto’s first traditional Thai dessert shop, turns out trays of vibrant sweets and savoury...
Food & Drink
Piece of cake: a cross-section of the Kochi, Queen West pâtisserie Nadège’s newest creation
The newest mini-gâteau from Nadège's spring collection, the Kochi, is named after the Japanese city and prefecture—a nod to...
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Mabel’s Bakery is expanding to St. Clair West
Mabel's Bakery , maker of prepared meals and purveyor of perfect almond croissants, is opening a store on St. Clair West in...
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Wiseys brings its pies to the west side
After a slew of winter shutterings—Timothy’s, Smock and Victoria’s Bakery are all papered up—Roncesvalles is starting to...
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Roselle Desserts butters up Corktown
Corktown may be losing a wine bar , but a new bakery has moved into the neighbourhood to help residents cope with the...
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Ossington butcher shop Côte de Boeuf is now also a snack bar, sometimes
Whether it needed one or not, the Ossington strip has gained yet another epicurean attraction. The peckish and thirsty can now...
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Whey cool: inside Cheese Boutique’s jam-packed, million-dollar cheese vault
Cheese Boutique, the 10,000-square-foot gourmet food store on the edge of Etobicoke, is not your standard grocer. Even more...
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Top Five: the best scones in the city
Fluffy biscuits are everywhere. Here, the most ingenious twists on the trend At Fika, his Scandinavian-style café in Kensington...
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Top Five: the best local cheeses available in Toronto
Our favourite stinky, small-batch works of art Margaret Peters of Glengarry Fine Cheese makes Lankaaster, a firm, buttery...
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Bobbette and Belle’s new uptown shop is a dangerously pleasant place to hang out
The uptown outpost of Queen East bakery Bobbette and Belle looks like it was plucked straight from the pages of Architectural...
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Festive Feast: the top 20 artisanal treats of the season
A hedonistic reverie of hand-crafted, artisanal, drop-dead-delicious holiday treats ’Tis the season for reckless...
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Love popcorn? Try 100 flavours at Kensington’s new kernel shop
Everyone's favourite movie snack is the main attraction at Toronto Popcorn Company, a new shop that recently opened on the edge of...
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Meet Bloorcourt bar The Steady’s award-winning vegan doughnut bagel (bagnut? doughgel?)
It takes a skilled chef to churn out great-tasting baked goods without using butter, milk or eggs. Last week, Toronto pastry whiz...
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Bobbette and Belle’s pretty pastries are heading uptown
Bobbette and Belle, Leslieville's prettiest patisserie, is soon to open a second location at 3347 Yonge Street, just north of...
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Anthony Rose is opening a Jewish “appetizing store” behind Fat Pasha
It's funny how food trends happen. One day everyone's happily eating tacos, the next they're sipping Manischewitz cocktails and...
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Delica’s gourmet lunches are coming to Queen West
Anyone who's tired of waiting 20 minutes in the takeout line at Fresh may appreciate this: the strip of Queen West near Trinity...
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Pop-Up Pick: Scandinavian kringles, cremebollers and seedy loaves now available at the Bay on Queen
For those unschooled in the art of Scandinavian pastry making, a kringle is a kind of flaky pretzel and a cremeboller is a crusty...
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’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
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Deep Dives
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
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
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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
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
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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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