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Food & Drink
Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
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Review: Jamie Oliver’s Yorkdale kitchen is far superior to the average mall restaurant
The house-made pastas are comforting after hours of shoe shopping. Read the rest of our Jamie's Italian review here
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Introducing: Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver’s first North American restaurant, at Yorkdale Mall
And everything on the family-friendly menu is sustainable and ethically sourced
City News
The most influential honorary Torontonians of 2015
They’re from elsewhere. They love Toronto. The feeling is mutual
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Jamie Oliver is opening a restaurant at Yorkdale (and nine more across Canada)
Instead of flitting straight to New York or Los Angeles like every other celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver —the floppy-haired...
City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
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Quoted: Jamie Oliver comes to town, talks about eating the CN Tower
—Chef-throb Jamie Oliver on the CN Tower’s potential as a giant, meaty snack. Since arriving in Toronto to promote his new...
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Susur Lee goes all Jamie Oliver with new TDSB cafeteria initiative
Last year, the Toronto District School Board closed 32 of its cafeterias after the province set stricter guidelines about serving...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for May 14 to 20
Monday, May 14 Tuesday, May 15 Wednesday, May 16 Thursday, May 17 Friday, May 18 Saturday, May 19 Sunday, May 20
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QUOTED: Jamie Oliver declares last night’s meal at Buca the best he’s had all year
The once Naked Chef was in town last night for a speaking engagement at Roy Thomson Hall to promote Jamie Oliver's Food...
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Bob Blumer on humiliation, faking it and falling asleep watching Barefoot Contessa
Bob Blumer has come a long way from the cheesy printed shirts, the tornado hairdo and the Mrs. Dash commercials. Reclining in a...
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Mustard ad made entirely of meat, debunking rumours of a Jennifer Aniston-Jamie Oliver partnership, the caloric overload of eggnog
• A Colman’s Mustard’s advertisement featuring Lord Kitchener’s face recreated with meat is making veggie boosters like...
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Q&A: three minutes with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver will send foodophiles into full swoon this Sunday, when he appears Roy Thomson Hall to speak about his new...
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Bacon-flavoured beer, the fattest city in America, the 50 best spots to eat the 50 best foods
• On a recent foray to Huntington, West Virginia (recently bestowed with the dubious distinction of being America’s fattest...
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Celeb chef scammer, legal limits on trans fats, the best restaurant in Uruguay
• The two-year grace period the Harper government gave the food industry to cut usage of trans fats ends Saturday—and...
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Timmy’s triumphs, Jamie Oliver branches out, charging for tap water
• While the recession takes its toll on the restaurant industry, Tim Horton s seems to be unaffected. Its first quarter numbers...
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Metro makes money, sustainable sushi and Gordon Ramsay’s fiscal nightmare
• British pop star Lily Allen is fined $2,000 for starting an ice cream fight in her dressing room after performing at the...
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Charging for tap water, ATM-style coffee, the return of Jamie Oliver
• Though he's been in Britain’s bad books often over the past decade, Naked Chef Jamie Oliver is back. He became the...
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Suburban food festivals, the Ritz bites the dust, Ottawa chefs come to Toronto
• David Rocco and Jamie Oliver taught us the importance of nutritious meals for kids, but obsessing over their diets could in...
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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
Deep Dives
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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Almost
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand