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Mark McEwan protégé to open new Italian restaurant
Mark McEwan protégé Rob Gentile has left the fold of his mentor’s Yorkville restaurant, One , to open a place of his own later...
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The Local Company: is the Danforth still seeking its sexy hero?
Late last year, there was buzz that the Danforth was primping for some big nights out. The opening of The Local Company , near...
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A taste of the food to come
My last stint in Italy was in Siena. I got into town at 3 p.m. and found a dingy little hotel room, then stopped at an enoteca...
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The legend of slow food
The area around Alba, Italy, is where the concept of slow food originated. The legend goes that three charismatic guys from Bra...
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My Brother Is an Only Child (***)
Daniele Luchetti’s My Brother Is an Only Child (Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico) will suffer from inevitable comparisons to...
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The LCBO’s blockbuster $10 deals
After tasting virtually the entire LCBO general list in preparation for the annual Toronto Life Eating & Drinking guide, I know...
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Parties
There are parties you simply don’t want to miss, but then you do miss them and end up regretting it the rest of your life. Or at...
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Blooming Whites
If you have never dedicated your wine budget to exploring the world’s aromatic whites, I suggest that now might be an opportune...
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Nova Scotia’s New Eden
Nova Scotia might soon be a remarkable source of high-quality, expensive sparkling wine—the Champagne of North America. I spent...
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Vintages’ April 12 Release: The Top 10
Vintages stores will be releasing dozens of new wines this Saturday. I have been able to taste most of them in advance along with...
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California Greening
My column in the May issue of Toronto Life (on newsstands April 10) examines the burgeoning “green” wine movement, with...
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The Best Fest in the West
I spent last weekend at the annual wine inundation known as Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival—an event that locals and winery...
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Surprising Australians in Vintages’ new release
The upcoming March issue of Toronto Life (on newsstands February 7th) contains reviews of 10 wines from Vintages’ February 2nd...
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Busy like bee
Quelle week, as they say in France—though of course one would always rather be busy and active at this age than...
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New Year’s bargain hunting
The flood of wine through Vintages stores doesn’t stop for an event as paltry as a New Year’s. With Monday’s Champagne fizz...
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My favourite wine moments of 2007
Hidden Bench 2005 Nuits Blanche, Niagara My head-spinning first tasting of a brilliant bordeaux-inspired white blend of sauvignon...
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Trophy Wines Sell Out
My Drink column in current issue of Toronto Life reviews ten very expensive, gifting wines released Saturday (December 8th) at...
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Holiday Shopping at Vintages
As much as I personally like to drag my heels on the issue of Christmas shopping, it was clearly evident from the throngs in the...
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New Vintages Releases
Wine of the WeekPlantatree 2006 Chardonnay, California ($14.95, 87 points, 64824) A newsmaker on a couple of levels, not least of...
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15 Top Releases
Wine of the WeekObikwa 2007 Shiraz, Western Cape, South Africa ($9.65, 87 points, 527499) Huge value for less than 10 bucks. This...
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Canada’s Largest Fine-Wine Auction
Wine of the Week Chateau La Lagune 1982 Third Growth Bordeaux (97 points) This grand cru classé Bordeaux was perhaps the best...
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Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
Autumn is so much the favourite season of most Canadians I know (and why not? Canada does it so well) that I feel disloyal when...
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Ten Killer Values Under $25
Wine of the Week Farnese 2005 Sangiovese Daunia, Italy ($7.45, 87 points, 512327) A major winemaking achievement from the south of...
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Under Canvas
It seems the worst sort of teasing to write about a meal that was available all through September at Splendido , knowing that...
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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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