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Five Toronto restaurants bringing back the power lunch
Lingering midday menus have returned, including a five-course feast with wine pairings and a choose-your-own Spanish adventure
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Local, ethical and (mostly) organic home-cooking in the Junction
Humble Beginnings is the latest new business to open on Dundas west of Keele—and the second gourmet lunch counter to join the...
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Tabülè opens a new eatery in Riverside
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the refreshing soba lunch special at Baldwin’s Konnichiwa
During the summer, diners flock to Baldwin Street for lunch on the many swelling patios under the shade of a wide, leafy canopy of...
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Introducing: Lilly’s Lunches, a new bike-based brown bag delivery service
Lilly’s Lunches is a new one-woman and one-bike operation run entirely by Elizabeth Callahan. After growing weary with her day...
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Introducing: The Hot ’n Dog, Parkdale’s coolest new lunch spot for the under-18 set
As hungry customers file into The Hot ’n Dog around noon, owner George Karpouzis greets regulars by name, inquiring after their...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.49, Dosas fresh from a tiffin
Midday in Mumbai, the streets are choked with bicycle-riding couriers carrying lunch in tiffins—stackable, reusable stainless...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a quick, tasty and affordable combo from Taste of Orient
A food court gem located in the newly renovated Richmond Adelaide Centre , Taste of Orient serves heaping plates of simple but...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: The Boulevard Café’s 30th anniversary lunch prix fixe
The Boulevard Café has been serving Peruvian staples from its cozy, two-storey Annex home for the last 31 years, and to mark the...
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Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
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Rosedale-Summerhill Guide: 23 need-to-know places along Yonge Street’s poshest stretch
Yonge Street’s poshest stretch, from Ramsden Park up to the Summerhill LCBO, has two strong suits: food and decor. Locals from...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the sumptuous tawük lunch plate at Tabülè
This Middle Eastern restaurant is a midtown favourite—the room is already packed when we arrive for lunch. Our order of tawük...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: grilled octopus that almost convinced us it isn’t January
A trip to Elm Street's Adega is the perfect way to remain in denial that spring is still months away. The Portuguese...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the 24-hour sam gye tang soup at Etsu
Taking responsibility for holiday excesses might be a painful task, but Etsu’s sam gye tang ($23) goes a long way in helping...
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12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
Big-spending downtown Torontonians have taken in the past few years to whining about Winterlicious, but the two-week dining...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the handmade pasta at Osteria Ciceri e Tria
One of downtown’s most popular lunch destinations, this Victoria Street restaurant buzzes with energy as friendly wait staff...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $6 chicken curry burrito at the Drake Café
The café at the Drake Hotel is showing a bit of mercy to busy office workers who don’t have time for a sit-down lunch. Its new...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the gooey Dungeness crab mac-and-cheese at Reds
Top toque Michael Steh, bronze medallist at Toronto’s annual Gold Medal Plates competition, is the culinary mastermind behind...
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La Palette shuttering its Kensington location this weekend
When Shamez Amlani muses about this coming Sunday, it’s not without a little sentimentality. Three days from now, the restaurant...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $38 Trust the Chef prix fixe at Didier
Didier Leroy, English Canada's first Maître Cuisinier de France, offers one of Toronto's more curious lunch experiences: a...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $7 stew at Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu
What this little Korean institution lacks in decor it more than makes up for with its namesake specialty, served as part of a set...
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Toronto’s Five Best Grilled Sandwiches
The best thing to hit the sandwich (since sliced bread) has to be the panino press. Here, the city’s top five...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $22 Lunch Special at George
Bay Street bistros can be frantic at midday, but at George, a few streets over, noon hour is a tranquil experience, set in a room...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the beef sukiyaki at Tokyo Grill
Turns out Guu isn’t the only place to go for Japanese comfort food. Homesick expats and Japanophiles often turn to the...
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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,
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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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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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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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