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Hemant Bhagwani
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What’s on the menu at Bar Goa, Hemant Bhagwani’s new tasting-menu restaurant
Including an elevated take on chaat and chicken masala tacos
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Why Pai’s tom yum soup is an essential Toronto dish
Restaurateur Hemant Bhagwani on what he loves so much about Nuit Regular's Thai soup
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What’s on the menu at Goa Indian Farm Kitchen, Hemant Bhagwani’s new restaurant at Bayview Village
After a two-year break, Bhagwani is back
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What’s on the menu at Leela, a new Indian tapas restaurant from the owner of Amaya
Including naan "pizza" and charcoal-smoked butter chicken
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Inside the kitchen of Amaya and Indian Street Food Co. owner and chef, Hemant Bhagwani
A few of the things it's stocked with: yogurt, pickled things and scotch
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Why tipping is going away (and why I’ll miss it)
As more Toronto restaurants go gratuity-free, how are we to reward good service?
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What’s on the menu at The Fat Beet, a new Middle Eastern restaurant from Hemant Bhagwani
It opens this Thursday
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Another Toronto restaurateur does away with tipping
The owner of Sidecar and the Toronto Temperance Society is the second in Toronto to ban tips
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Introducing: Indian Street Food Co., Hemant Bhagwani’s new tip-free spot in Leaside
The more casual restaurant has replaced Amaya the Indian Room
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Six in the Six: half a dozen burning questions for Hemant Bhagwani, the restaurateur who’s doing away with tipping
The Amaya founder tells us why his new restaurant has a no-gratuities policy
City News
Pearson Goes Posh: the most luxurious new features at the airport Toronto loves to hate
Is Pearson airport officially swanky? YYZ has a new fitness centre, a luxury shopping space in the works, and a handful of...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in January
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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The new restaurants at Pearson Airport are starting to open
The new Pearson International Airport dining options we told you about last year are finally starting to roll out. First...
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The Month that Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in December
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Amaya’s Bazaar Global Food Bar shuts down—but the concept isn’t dead yet
After less than a year, Bazaar Global Food Bar, the casual Mount Pleasant restaurant that was part of Hemant Bhagwani’ s Amaya...
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Hemant Bhagwani, the chef-owner of the Amaya empire, on where he goes to splurge and save
(Image: John Cullen)
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Mark McEwan, Claudio Aprile and others to launch new restaurants at Pearson Airport
Toronto travellers rejoice: your airport dining options are about to expand far, far beyond the crushing indignity of eating a...
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Introducing: Bazaar Global Food Bar, the Amaya empire’s new, family-friendly Mount Pleasant outpost
“It’s global flavours—without the fuss!” That’s how Hemant Bhagwani , the driving forced behind the Amaya...
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Amaya empire to expand into the lucrative kiddie birthday biz with Bazaar: Global Food Bar
It seems the man behind Amaya is no longer satisfied with merely serving Indian food. According to a story in The Grid, Hemant...
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Q&A with Hemant Bhagwani: the Amaya co-owner on building his Indian restaurant empire
Although the recession is officially over, its effects—shuttered doors and restaurants offering humbler, more comfort-driven...
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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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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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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions