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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"
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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
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Almost
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