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What’s on the menu at Animl, an extravagant new steakhouse
Yes, that’s a disco bull
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“We haven’t sold this much high-end wine in a long, long time”: Restaurateur Charles Khabouth has reopened his night spots and rehired hundreds of people
He had to lay off 98 per cent of his 2,000-person staff at the beginning of the pandemic
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What’s on the menu at Amal, Yorkville’s swanky new Lebanese restaurant
The restaurant's name is Arabic for "hope"
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What’s on the menu at The Gaarden, Queen West’s new rooftop oasis
It's a plant-lover's paradise
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What’s on the menu at Sofia, Charles Khabouth’s new Italian restaurant in Yorkville
Including carpaccio, house-made pasta, and lots of wine
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What’s on the menu at Akira Back, the Michelin-starred chef’s first Canadian restaurant
It's in the new Bisha Hotel
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Inside Bisha, Charles Khabouth’s slick new hotel in the Entertainment District
From lobby to 44th-floor infinity pool
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What’s on the menu at Macho Radio Bar, a new Tex-Mex joint with arcade games and a giant patio
Also: frozen margaritas, cocktails by the pitcher and cornbread French toast made with Pop Rocks
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Morimoto says no to T.O.
Plans for the Iron Chef's King West restaurant have been canned
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #25, Charles Khabouth
Khabouth is Toronto’s leading club and restaurant mogul
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Sex, Drugs and EDM: high times and overdoses in Toronto’s dance festival scene
The electronic dance music genre has spawned a $20-billion economy of giant festivals, thumping bass and designer drugs. The partygoers think they’re invincible. The overdoses tell another story
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Canada’s first Morimoto is opening on King West
Masaharu Morimoto is officially opening a restaurant in Toronto. Word first got around that something was up in early March, after...
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Oliver & Bonacini teams up with Charles Khabouth’s company to take over Stock and Suits at the Trump
We won’t be surprised if every downtown hotspot is consolidated under a single mother-corp by 2015, judging by recent...
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Charles Khabouth launches Uniun, a new LED-laden club on Adelaide
Charles Khabouth may have opened his fair share of restaurants in recent years, but if his new 16,000-square-foot club Uniun...
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Five things we learned about Charles Khabouth from the Toronto Star’s profile
Charles Khabouth is on a tear. The so-called King of Clubs (a name he’s understandably sick of) recently opened Weslodge, La...
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Introducing: Weslodge, the new King West “modern saloon” from Charles Khabouth and Hanif Harji
For the second time this year that Yorkville has descended upon King West, first with Gusto 101 (from Trattoria Nervosa’ s Janet...
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Introducing: Kitch, a new restaurant and club just north of the tracks at Dupont and Dufferin
Kitch bills itself as a place for “eats and beats”—the eats coming courtesy of Bryan Jackson, noted waffle lover and owner...
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Introducing: Cube, Charles Khabouth’s newest incarnation of Ultra Supper Club
After nine years, Ultra Supper Club, the restaurant-cum-club that replaced Queen West’s long-time tropical standby Bamboo, has...
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Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on La Société, Charles Khabouth’s sexy, buzzy French bistro
Four million dollars buys a lot of restaurant, even on Bloor Street, at the heart of the city’s richest retail mile. Charles...
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Introducing: Briscola, Cinq 01’s rustic Italian successor
Briscola, the new rustic Italian restaurant from Ink Entertainment ’s Charles Khabouth and Amber ’s Toufik Sarwa , opened last...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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