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The Dish Power Rankings: Top Chefs and Bieber power
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: The Valentine’s madness edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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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 Dish Power Rankings: buzzing diners and taco insurgents
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: brunches and bans
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Hoof Café’s popular brunch service is back—at the Hoof Raw Bar
Over the weekend, Black Hoof owner Jen Agg tweeted a piece of news that Toronto brunchers have been waiting to hear since the cult...
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Missing the Hoof Café? Geoff Hopgood is serving brunch at Foodliner for one day only
Yesterday afternoon, Geoff Hopgood, chef and owner of Hopgood’s Foodliner and the man responsible for those epic, meat-mad...
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Introducing: Hoof Raw Bar, the new seafood addition to the Hoof family
For many Toronto food lovers, Hoof Raw Bar, the latest eatery in Jen Agg’ s burgeoning Dundas West mini-empire, came out of left...
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Introducing: Hopgood’s Foodliner, the new Roncesvalles restaurant from Hoof Café vet Geoff Hopgood
It’s been while since Geoff Hopgood, best known (and beloved) for the innovative brunch he served at the now-closed Hoof Café...
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Six things we learned from the Globe’s feature on Grant van Gameren, Enoteca Sociale’s new executive chef
Last month we reported that Grant van Gameren, formerly of The Black Hoof , was working the stoves at Lucien (although the...
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New Reviews: Pizzeria Defina, Diana’s Oyster Bar and the Hoof Cocktail Bar
Thin-crust lust in Roncey, impeccable seafood in Scarborough and double-digit cocktails on Dundas West PIZZERIA DEFINA 321...
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The next stage in the saga of the former Hoof Café: the Black Hoof Cocktail Bar
Back in June, we reported that Jen Agg and Grant van Gameren ’ s ambitious plans to launch Black Hoof and Company this spring in...
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Geoff Hopgood on leaving the Hoof empire and opening his own place (and yes, there’ll be brunch)
A while back we told you about Food Truck Eats, tomorrow’s food truck event in the Distillery District, noting the participation...
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Jen Agg announces Black Hoof and Company launch delayed until spring 2012
Black Hoof co-owner Jen Agg announced yesterday on the restaurant’s blog that chef Grant van Gameren ’s highly anticipated...
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Greatest Hits: Chris Nuttall-Smith picks the 25 most delicious dishes of the last year
The 25 most delicious dishes tasted this year, ranging from lowbrow comforts (potato puffballs) to high-minded masterpieces...
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Goodbye Hoof Café, hello Black Hoof and Company
After just over a year of bone marrow doughnut holes and lineups out the door, Toronto's most unabashedly carnivorous brunch...
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The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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Introducing: Campagnolo, the new meat-loving spot on Dundas West’s carnivore row
After 2010, it’s hard to remember what a sad little patch of real estate once existed along Dundas West, between Bathurst and...
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Best and worst moments of 2010
As we look back at 2010, we can't help bit see a year of tackiness and beauty, of tragedy and banality. Here, we examine two sides...
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Introducing: Porchetta and Co., the new sandwich shop that’s turning Dundas West into a carnivore’s carnival
Like Ossington and Harbord before it, Dundas Street West keeps surprising us with new cafés, bars and restaurants. The latest is...
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Toronto’s Five Best Grilled Sandwiches
The best thing to hit the sandwich (since sliced bread) has to be the panino press. Here, the city’s top five...
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Introducing: Bar Salumi, an aperitif bar by the owners of Local Kitchen
Inside Queen West’s new Bar Salumi —under hanging Berkshire prosciutto, garlands of hot peppers and a wild boar’s...
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Glazed and Enthused: 13 of Toronto’s best doughnuts
Fried dough is suddenly everywhere, infiltrating dessert cards and pastry cases and threatening to dethrone panna cotta as the...
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A photographic tour of one of Toronto’s best brunch menus
A mere six months after opening, the brunch at the Hoof Café has become the city's most coveted (witness the lineups snaking out...
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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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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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“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