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Kitchen Diaries
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Inside the kitchen of Afrim Pristine, the co-owner of Cheese Boutique
Stocked with Philadelphia dips, candy and—you guessed it—a ton of cheese
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Inside the kitchen of Taylor McMeekin, the new executive chef at the Drake Hotel
Featuring 14 boxes of cod tongues, a dozen De Buyer saucepans and a full floor dedicated to McMeekin’s home bar
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Inside the kitchen of Julio Guajardo and Kate Chomyshyn, the head chefs and co-owners of Fonda Balam
Stocked with Mexican art, gourmet honey and liqueur that tastes like tortillas
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Inside the kitchen of Jonathan Larrad, the owner of Spanish Pig
Stocked with anchovy-stuffed olives, tinned razor clams and an eclectic cookbook collection
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Inside the kitchen of Peter Sanagan, the owner of Sanagan’s Meat Locker
Stocked with a whole chicken, batched cocktails and a collection of vintage cookbooks
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Inside the kitchen of Steve Allery, head chef at Maple Leaf Tavern, and Tabitha Cranney, head chef at the Wood Owl
Stocked with British biscuits, anchovies and fancy Parisian mustard
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Inside the kitchen of Tomer Markovitz, the owner of Romi’s
Stocked with rib-eye steak, fresh challah and Israeli couscous
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Inside the kitchen of Kyle Rindinella, co–executive chef at Enoteca Sociale
Stocked with homemade tomato sauce, limited-run olive oil and a Nespresso machine
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Inside the kitchen of Julian Bentivegna, the chef and owner of Ten
Stocked with Deep’n Delicious cakes, three bottles of maple syrup and his grandmother’s pasta maker
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Inside the kitchen of Jose Hadad, the owner of Mad Mexican
Stocked with dried chilies, cake pops and a hidden mezcal collection
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Inside the kitchen of Jennifer Coburn, the owner of Gia
Stocked with vegan brie, instant coffee and two massive juicers
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Inside the kitchen of Michael Hunter, the chef and co-owner of Antler
Stocked with swan prosciutto, wild boar and black walnut liqueur
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Inside the kitchen of Davide Ciavattella, the executive chef at Don Alfonso 1890
Including a frozen rabbit, tomatoes from Mount Vesuvius and a 30-year-old balsamic
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Inside the kitchen of Giovanna Alonzi, the executive chef at Sud Forno
Stocked with a collection of international chiles, three kinds of flour and cookbooks filled with handwritten notes
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Inside the kitchen of Lonie Murdock, the head chef at Miss Likklemore’s
Stocked with stolen sauces, experimental butter and gourmet gummy bears
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Inside the kitchen of Ryusuke Nakagawa, the executive chef at Aburi Hana
Stocked with three kinds of miso paste, a hefty collection of Japanese cookbooks and Popeyes take out
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Inside the kitchen of Cory Vitiello, the head of culinary development at Chase Hospitality Group
Featuring ultra-organized herbs, homemade nut milks and weekly Thai takeout
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Inside the kitchen of David Schwartz, the executive chef at Sunnys Chinese
Featuring an army of sauces, six jars of peanut butter and a collection of antique spoons
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Inside the kitchen of Juan Alvarez, the head chef at Rosalinda
Stocked with Mexican candy, an impressive hot sauce collection and vegan ice cream
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Inside the kitchen of Alex Courts, the chef and owner of vegan bakery Sweet Hart Kitchen
A few of the things it’s stocked with: three kinds of kale, jackfruit, wedding cake and pea milk
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Inside the kitchen of Ariel Coplan, co-owner of Grand Cru Deli and executive chef of The Green Wood
A few of the things it's stocked with: Ting, Canadian conservas and a whole lotta bananas
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Inside the kitchen of Ivana Raca, the executive chef and co-owner of the pescetarian-Italian Ufficio
A few of the things it’s stocked with: brandy butter, kimchi, bourbon barrel–aged maple syrup and truffle everything
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Inside the kitchen of JW Foster, the Fairmont Royal York’s executive chef
A few of the things it’s stocked with: honey, oysters, vegan gelato and pizza dough
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Kitchen Diaries: The 10 most-snooped-in chef’s fridges of 2019
Over the past year, we raided the kitchens of Toronto chefs and notable foodies. These were the most-popular ones
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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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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Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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