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Inside the Food District, Square One Shopping Centre’s new 34,000-square-foot food hall
A look at all the vendors, and what to get at each one
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Toronto’s best Mexican restaurants
Our go-tos for tacos, tortas and tequila
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Inside the kitchen of Eric Brass, the CEO of Tequila Tromba
A few of the things it's stocked with: bagels, blueberries, peanut butter and booze—so much booze.
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Where to shop local on Eglinton Avenue
Eglinton Avenue is getting a modern makeover: by 2021, the sparkling new Eglinton Crosstown LRT will zip commuters across the...
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Where Toronto Underground Market founder Hassel Aviles eats Latin American food
Her favourite places to get tacos, hot dogs (yes, hot dogs) and fish dishes
Culture
An honest-to-God party in Galleria Mall, a winter craft beer fest and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of January 25
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Dinner at La Carnita’s John Street location is one big, delicious mess
Our review of the popular taco chain's newest restaurant
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Introducing: La Carnita’s third taqueria, housed in a King West heritage building
The third location for the taco chain is also its biggest
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Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
There are plenty of great places to eat on the east side—it just hasn’t exploded the way the west has over the last five years. How come?
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Sweet Jesus brings brain freeze to the core
Between TIFF and Uncle Tetsu’ s, the core is knotted with line-ups. And now Sweet Jesus , another queue-causer, has joined the...
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La Carnita’s Riverside taqueria is now abierto
La Carnita 's second location finally opened in Riverside Monday night, months after plans to settle in the Beach fell...
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Say a final farewell to the Toronto Underground Market
Three years ago, before Toronto became one never-ending pop-up street-food fest, the Toronto Underground Market took over the...
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Six downright silly soft-serve cones from La Carnita spin-off Sweet Jesus
This wasn't the summeriest summer ever, but that didn't stop the team at Little Italy taqueria La Carnita from debuting a new...
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Snack on the asphalt at TRES, La Carnita’s annual parking-lot party
Back in 2012, pop-up taqueria La Carnita gave Toronto UNO, a one-night food, music and art party. DOS followed a year later. It...
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La Carnita’s ice cream spin-off pops up on King West
Sweet Jesus is the taqueria's soft-serve side business, and it's making its debut this evening. The carnivalesque cones—topped...
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Recipe: how to make La Carnita’s buttery, queso-topped Mexican corn
PREP TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: 17 minutes Serves 4 MEXICAN CORN 4 cobs corn, shucked 2 - 3 pinches salt 2 - 3 tbsp melted butter...
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Sorry Beachers, La Carnita isn’t coming anymore
Earlier this year, Beach residents were tickled to learn that La Carnita' s second taqueria was coming to their...
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La Carnita is bringing west-side tacos to the Beach
Among Toronto neighbourhoods, the Beach is a bit of an oddball. It’s charming, lake-adjacent and crammed with coveted...
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Straight Outta Parkdale: the mystifying hip-hoppification of Toronto chef culture
In 2011, we walked into a dinky taco shop in Parkdale and found the future of Toronto dining: blaring ’90s hip-hop, beautifully...
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La Carnita is opening a new spot for classic American comfort food on King West
Restaurants serving all things covered in chipotle and encased in corn tortillas open in Toronto faster than you can inhale a...
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Recipe: cochinita pibil tacos from La Carnita
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 32 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 4 hours Serves 5 to 10 COCHINITA PIBIL TACOS 100 g achiote paste 10...
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Critic: How tequila-fuelled taquerias like Playa Cabana became the city’s buzziest places to eat—and party
Playa Cabana is on the ground floor of a slim Dupont semi just off Davenport, a convenient pit stop after a wardrobe binge in...
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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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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,
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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
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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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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