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Grant van Gameren
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Toronto’s best new patios with great late-night menus
Five dazzling outdoor seats for late-night eats
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What’s on the menu at El Rey Mezcal Bar, Grant van Gameren’s new Kensington kitchen
It's another Mexican spot for the market
Food & Drink
Grant van Gameren’s opening a cocktail bar in Parkdale
And he's calling it Pretty Ugly
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Jen Agg doesn’t play nice
How the Black Hoof's incredibly talented, occasionally savage restaurateur built her trendsetting, cocktail-slinging mini-empire
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Toronto’s top artisanal toasts
Eye-roll if you must, but it's still trending for a reason
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Ex–Bar Isabel chef Brandon Olsen is opening a chocolate shop in Brockton Village
While he might be known for his work with foie gras and fried chicken, his true love is sugar
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Review: Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren’s College Street tapas bar, is another standout
Bar Raval ★★★ 505 College St. Grant van Gameren’s claim to greatness is sweating the small details. At Bar Isabel, his...
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Q&A: Jen Agg, Toronto’s most loved and loathed restaurateur
Since opening The Black Hoof in 2008, Jen Agg has established herself as one of the most influential—and divisive—restaurant...
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Q&A: Max Rimaldi, the Pizzeria Libretto owner who made Neapolitan pizza a thing in Toronto
In the seven years since Pizzeria Libretto first opened on Ossington, co-owner and creator Max Rimaldi has become one of the most...
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Introducing: Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren’s much-hyped Spanish pinchos bar
Name: Bar Raval Contact Info: 505 College St. , thisisbarraval.com , @bar_raval Neighbourhood: Little Italy Owners: Grant Van...
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Meathead: Grant van Gameren is Toronto’s hottest chef, and he’s about to prove it again
Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren’s latest project, is named after a seedy neighbourhood in Barcelona. You wouldn’t know it from...
Food & Drink
Recipe: Bar Isabel chef Grant van Gameren’s grilled steak with shishito peppers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 2 minutes GRILL TIME: 4 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day Serves 4 to 6 STEAK 1 ½ tbsp dried...
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Summerlicious: dignified dining program or “cash-grabby food factory”?
The idea of dining out on the cheap is nice, but what is Summerlicious like from the restaurant's perspective? Sure, bargain meals...
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Chef’s Choice: Grant van Gameren of Bar Isabel picks his favourite restaurants
Who better to guide a fantasy food tour than a chef? We asked some of the city's top culinary talents to walk us through their...
City News
The New Power Set: five young Torontonians on the verge of greatness
JARED MENKES, 32 The grandson of Menkes Developments founder Murray is starting to dominate the downtown condo market. He oversaw...
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Three Toronto Hot Spots Make EnRoute’s Annual “Best New Restaurants” List—Including Number One
It's that time again, when end-of-year lists start clogging our Twitter feeds and Facebook timelines. One we look forward to every...
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The Dish Power Rankings: the Jack Bauer edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. Bar Isabel...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Terroir-ism edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The...
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The Dish Power Rankings: April fools edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. A long...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Brandon Walsh edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The top...
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Introducing: Bar Isabel, Grant van Gameren’s highly anticipated new restaurant in Little Italy
Name: Bar Isabel Neighbourhood: Little Italy Contact info: 797 College St., 416-532-2222, barisabel.com, @BarIsabel797 Owners:...
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Grant van Gameren’s Bar Isabel opens Friday night
Bar Isabel, the new mostly-Spanish restaurant from Grant van Gameren and Max Rimaldi, is set to open for its first dinner service...
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Grant van Gameren’s Crown Cooks is now called Bar Isabel
Crown Cooks, the forthcoming Little Italy venture from ex- Black Hoof chef Grant van Gameren and Max Rimaldi (Pizzeria...
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Bar Volo reopens today with double the taps and a refreshed menu by Guy Rawlings
The Yonge Street beer geek den Bar Volo closed for a snap renovation last Sunday and reopens today with some big changes. Most...
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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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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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Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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