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Food & Drink
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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Culture
TIFF 2014 Insider’s Guide: Where to Eat, Drink and Party
A highly discerning look at the festival’s hottest hot spots The Chase 10 Temperance St., 647-348-7000 The glitzy surf-and-turf...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at La Société, Stack and Origin
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Food & Drink
Charles Khabouth to open a branch of La Société in Montreal
Fresh off the openings of Weslodge, Patria and Uniun, Charles Khabouth has announced plans to expand his Ink Entertainment empire...
Food & Drink
26 of the best Toronto happy hour specials
Happy hours have a weird history in straight-laced Ontario. The province first allowed the practice in 1981, only to ban it three...
Culture
SPOTTED: Trump (JoGo, Emma Watson) vs. Khabouth (Ewan McGregor, KStew) edition
Festival favourites continued to make their way to the Trump Tower over the last few days. Looper’ s Joseph Gordon-Levitt and...
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Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 places to eat
Amid the cocktail swilling and celebrity gawking, eating can be an afterthought during TIFF. Good news: there are plenty of...
Culture
Spotted: Kelly Clarkson, lunching like a lady at La Société
Kelly Clarkson, the American Idol winner turned actual pop star, was spotted eating lunch today at Bloor Street’s La...
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
These Booths Were Made for Gawking: who sits where at La Société
The cuisine is supremely so-so, but the glitzy atmosphere and A-plus people-watching at La Société—the crown jewel of...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Stock, Chiado and La Société
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
City News
The Scene: Fashion Cares 25 launches without Elton John and Jeanne Beker
Last night at Charles Khabouth’ s La Société, Fashion Cares event co-chair Michael King and artistic director Philip Ing...
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Ice Queens: four extravagant seafood platters perfect for ringing in the New Year
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Food & Drink
The $145 Grand Plateau at La Société is the city’s most outrageous seafood feast
Where to find it: The new sceney bistro La Société, 131 Bloor St. W., 416-551-9929 . What: The platter features catches by...
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Toronto’s five best steak frites
The city’s most impressive meat-and-potatoes pairings in order of awesomeness (Image: The flatiron steak at Delux, James Tse)
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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: La Société, Bloor Street’s massive new bistro and people-watching hub
La Société , Charles Khabouth and Danny Soberano ’s new upscale bistro, opened last week to just the chic red-carpet reception...
Food & Drink
Charles Khabouth’s new Bloor Street bistro, La Société, to open in June; two more Khabouth restos in the works
A few months ago, we announced that Charles Khabouth of Ink Entertainment would be taking over the space formerly occupied by dim...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling