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Toronto’s newest food truck has balls—literally and figuratively
It takes balls to launch a food truck in December. Luckily, Toronto’s newest mobile snack den has huge ones. And little...
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Latin food truck Gourmet Gringos opens a sit-down space at Bathurst and St. Clair
The winter months can be tough on Toronto’s growing fleet of roving restaurateurs. Gourmet Gringos, the Latin food truck that...
Food & Drink
Do you like food trucks? The city wants to know
If you’ve ever lamented the scarcity of food trucks downtown, now’s your chance to gripe about it in a way that could actually...
Food & Drink
AwesTRUCK 2013 food truck rally takes over Fort York in September
AwesTRUCK is the Oscars for roaming restaurants: an awards ceremony where trucks get well-earned props for braving a bog of...
Food & Drink
A new food truck brings Ontario produce from farm to city streets
Localista combines two of Toronto’s most cultish food obsessions: food trucks and farmers’ markets. The new roaming...
Food & Drink
UPDATED: Toronto relaxes food truck restrictions with a new pilot program in five city parks
Operating a food truck in Toronto is a tricky enterprise. On top of the brutal winters, fledgling truck owners have to wade...
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A new Hawaiian-themed food truck brings shaved ice to Toronto streets
Toronto summer isn’t all pool parties and patios. Sticky streetcar commutes, heat-ravaged hairdos and countless street closures...
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New ’50s-themed food truck Crossroads Diner hits Toronto streets
Sure signs that spring has come to Toronto: west-end hipsters and white squirrels recolonize Trinity Bellwoods; the Toronto Sun...
Food & Drink
Five gourmet Toronto food trucks that have us compulsively checking Twitter
1. Blue Donkey Streatery Mississauga’s first food truck serves classic Greek-Canadian food, like greasy and delicious chicken...
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...
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A taxpayer-funded food truck is serving poutine and tourtière on the streets of Mexico
Even the Canadian government is getting in on the food truck trend. Agriculture Canada is currently touring a branded food truck...
Food & Drink
Gourmet Gringos food truck is opening a standalone restaurant
Gourmet Gringos , the Latin American food truck that first hit Toronto’s streets last fall, is following the lead of Fidel...
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Toronto’s first Peruvian food truck hits the streets in April
With temperatures tentatively crawling back above freezing, another food truck season is poised to begin. The first new mobile...
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Seven food trends at 2013’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Each year, we head over to the annual Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show to get a look at the big new food...
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...
Culture
Zane Caplansky returns to Dragons’ Den—yet again—on Sunday
Zane Caplansky is appearing on Dragon’s Den for a third time. The white-hatted owner of Caplansky’s Deli first appeared on the...
Food & Drink
Jack Astor’s deploys a pop-up food truck to promote its new menu
The demand for food trucks is so fevered in Toronto that the big-money corporate restaurant chains are starting to get in on what...
Food & Drink
Behind the Pass: a daylong stage with El Gastrónomo Vagabundo, the GTA’s food truck pioneer
Earlier this year we sent regular Dish contributor Renée Suen to complete a one-day culinary stage at fine dining institution...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Pretty Sweet, the GTA’s newest cupcake truck
As she squeezes swirls of pastel-pink icing onto cupcakes, Savera Hashmi, owner of the new Pretty Sweet Cupcakes truck, tells us...
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Nuit Mange: where to eat in the middle of the night during Nuit Blanche 2012
Nuit Blanche opens on Saturday night at 7:03 p.m. (see our full guide ), and with an entire night of roaming Toronto’s...
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Must-try: a pointillist-perfect take on traditional beef tartare from Yours Truly
In this era of underground supper clubs and artisanal food trucks, beef tartare, once the acquired taste of plutocrats and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Gourmet Gringos, a new food truck serving Latin American fare (including handmade empanadas)
Joining the ever-expanding herd of food truckers, the Gourmet Gringos (not to be confused with the Gourmet Bitches, or the Food...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: TIFF, Lewis Black and five other events on our to-do list
1. LEWIS BLACK: RUNNING ON EMPTY If Lewis Black comes across as a shouting man more than a funny man, that’s because there just...
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Introducing: The Food Dudes’ new food truck
Adrian Niman (North 44) started his catering company, The Food Dudes, in 2007 as a one-man operation serving elevated fare for the...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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
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