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Where to eat lunch this week: Loire
The French dishes at this Harbord Street restaurant stun as much at lunch as they do at dinner The place: This south Annex gem...
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Lazaruslicious: Gourmet Magazine rises from the dead, thanks to the iPad
It's a sign of the times. Gourmet , the quintessential foodie digest that died last October , has suddenly been revived, thanks to...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Daniel et Daniel
Many Torontonians have sampled this caterer's delights at parties, but boxed meals from its small lunch counter satisfy, too The...
Food & Drink
The Roncesvalles Guide: Our 25 favourite eating and shopping destinations along Parkdale’s Polish drag
Referred to as Little Poland by long-time residents and Roncey by the younger crowd, the Roncesvalles strip is one of the few...
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Seven food trends we love
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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A first look inside Paul Boehmer’s eponymous Ossington restaurant (and details of his new Dean and Deluca-esque retail shop)
Paul Boehmer' s soon-to-open restaurant is like the cherry on top of the Ossington sundae. The eponymous eatery was one of the...
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Cooking classes: the gift that gives back to the gifter
Unsurprisingly, cooking class registration increases in the weeks after Christmas, as wannabe chefs redeem gifts of culinary...
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Santas drink for charity, Carolyn Parrish vs. Hazel McCallion, Slow Food movement turns 20
• Various drunken Santas will be stumbling around New York, Vienna and several other cities for this weekend’s SantaCon, “a...
Food & Drink
Sasha Chapman on the return of the TV dinner
The chatter started months before Mark McEwan opened the doors to his gourmet groceteria last June. The choice of location, which...
Food & Drink
Michelle Obama on Sesame Street, coffee spared tax hike, chocolate cures stress
• Michelle Obama dropped by Sesame Street on the show’s 40th anniversary to chat with a basket of anthropomorphic vegetables...
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Ruth Reichl praises Toronto, government-subsidized chocolate milk, the great seafood shim-sham
• The defunct Gourmet magazine was thinking of putting out a Toronto-themed issue, former editor Ruth Reichl says, following the...
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The world’s top eight food cities, McDonald’s moves into the Louvre, how to carve the perfect turkey
• In a clash of cultures, McDonald’s plans to open a restaurant and a McCafé at the Louvre next month. One curmudgeonly art...
Food & Drink
Gourmet magazine has balled its last melon
Gourmet is no more. The food world is mourning the loss of the magazine, which has been a cornerstone of North American culinary...
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In its 20th year, Feast of Fields is better than ever—and we have the pictures to prove it
No, Jamie Kennedy , we couldn’t possibly eat another. Those heirloom tomato, arugula and crispy pancetta BLTs were...
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Bud Lite makers sue Ontario craft brewer, the anatomy of a restaurant closure, rice-pairing guide
• The Star reports that Ontario beer maker Brick Brewing Co. is being sued for copyright infringement by the makers of Bud Light...
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Riding the gravy train: Smoke’s Poutinerie plans new locations and a poutine truck
Fries, curds and gravy—three simple ingredients that, when combined, create a dish as Canadian as hockey. Toronto’s love...
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Harper eats seal, celiacs can’t get a break, home butchery on the rise
• Prime Minister Harper and some of his cabinet cronies dined on seal meat yesterday in Iqaluit. The seal industry was hit with...
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Supermarket heap: Gourmet grocers colonize the city
There has been a sudden influx of gourmet grocers and grab-and-go eateries in Toronto. Many have been—or will be—created by...
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First look inside Mark McEwan’s gourmet grocery store
Chef Mark McEwan ( North 44° , Bymark ) gave us an exclusive tour of his eponymous grocery store at the Shops at Don Mills, just...
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Mark McEwan’s opens his grocery store this week (no, seriously)—and plans a second downtown location
After months of anticipation, Shops at Don Mills will finally get its gourmet grocer this Thursday, says Mark McEwan. We caught up...
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Americans becoming “flexitarians,” Laura Secord vs. Tim Hortons, designer ice cubes
• There is a recession-era term that's possibly more annoying than "recessionista." Americans are turning into...
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Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl talks about her mother, her serotonin and the brown bananas in her freezer
“I’ve always thought that privacy is overrated,” says avant-garde epicure and Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl . She is...
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Dog food versus pâté, Ruth Reichl in Toronto, gardening madness
• Chowhounds don’t know from hound chow, according to a new study in which only three out of 18 volunteers were able to tell...
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Britney goes locavore, swine flu comes to Canada, more Twittering chefs
• Mexican-origin swine flu —which has killed over 100 so far—reached Canada this weekend. Despite precautionary pork bans...
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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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