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Main Course Recipe
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Recipe: Campagnolo chef Craig Harding’s incomparable spaghetti all’amatriciana
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 36 minutes Serves 6 to 8 SAUCE 2 19-oz cans San Marzano tomatoes 1 medium carrot, coarsely...
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Recipe: Bar Isabel chef Grant van Gameren’s grilled steak with shishito peppers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 2 minutes GRILL TIME: 4 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day Serves 4 to 6 STEAK 1 ½ tbsp dried...
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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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Recipe: Côte de Boeuf’s decadent duck confit (it’s worth the two-day preparation process)
PREP TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: 3 hours plus 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days Serves 4 DUCK CONFIT ⅔ cup brown sugar ⅓...
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Recipe: how to make the creamy, chili-spiked laksa soup from Hawker Bar on Ossington
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 40 minutes Serves 4 LAKSA PASTE 8 Thai red chilies, seeded 1 tsp each cinnamon and coriander seeds 1...
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Recipe: how to make perfect pan-roasted halibut like the Harbord Room’s Cory Vitiello
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes Serves 4 ONION SOUBISE ⅓ cup unsalted butter ⅓ cup arborio rice 4 thyme sprigs...
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Recipe: how to make Buca chef Rob Gentile’s buffalo ricotta-stuffed cannelloni
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 44 minutes Serves 3 TOMATO SAUCE 2 lb fresh roma tomatoes ½ cup olive oil ¼ white...
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Recipe: how to make the beefy, gooey, ridiculously indulgent patty melt from Rose and Sons diner
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 42 minutes Serves 6 CHILI MAYO 1 cup mayonnaise ¼ cup Sriracha 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp...
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Recipe: how to make the authentic Spanish paella from King West’s Patria
PREP TIME: 30 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 40 minutes Serves 4 SOFRITO 1 ½ tbsp olive oil ½ white onion, finely diced 1 small...
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Recipe: how to make Rock Lobster’s gooey, overstuffed lobster roll
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 11 minutes Serves 4 LOBSTER ROLL 1 ¼ lb live lobster ¼ cup mayonnaise 1 ½ tbsp freshly...
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Recipe: Oxley chef Andrew Carter reveals how to make his unforgettably aromatic lamb curry
PREP TIME: 28 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day ROAST TIME: 1 hour Serves 6 LAMB CURRY 3 tbsp coriander seed 3 tbsp cumin seed 2...
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Recipe: The Gabardine’s creamy, coma-inducing macaroni and cheese
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 27 minutes Serves 4 to 6 3 cups dry macaroni BREAD CRUMB CRUST ¼ cup butter 1 tbsp...
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Recipe: the traditional (and patriotic) tourtière from Woodlot’s David Haman
PREP TIME: 1 hour REFRIGERATION TIME: 6 hours COOK TIME: 1 hour 32 minutes Makes 3 tourtières PÂTE BRISÉE 1 ½ cups all-purpose...
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Recipe: A-OK Foods may be closing, but the deliciously addictive bulgogi torta lives on
PREP TIME: 25 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 10 minutes Serves 6 MARINADE 1 small onion, coarsely chopped ¼ Asian...
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Recipe: seared trout and smashed taters from seafood restaurant Starfish
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes Serves 4 SEARED TROUT AND SMASHED POTATOES 3 Spanish onions ½ cup plus 1 tbsp...
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Recipe: The Stockyards pitmaster Tom Davis’s crispy, cayenne-kicked fried chicken
PREP TIME: 20 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days COOK TIME: 1 hour Serves 4 to 8 BRINE ¼ cup each granulated sugar and kosher...
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Recipe: spaghettini and gooey mozzarella meatballs from Woods chef Bruce Woods
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 55 minutes Serves 4 TOMATO SAUCE 2 cans of plum tomatoes, each 28 oz 2 tbsp olive oil 1 large...
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Recipe: butter-poached lobster from the virtuous fishmongers at Hooked
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 4 BUTTER POACHED LOBSTER Coarse sea salt 6 lbs live lobster, about 4...
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Recipe: bison pemmican from Keriwa chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe
PREP TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION: 5 days BRAISE TIME: 2 to 4 hours COOK TIME: 1 hour Serves 4 to 8 BISON PEMMICAN 1 bison or...
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Recipe: the earthy and elegant chicken in hay from locavore bistro Edulis
PREP TIME: 20 minutes BAKE TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes Serves 4 CHICKEN BAKED IN HAY 3½-lb whole chicken 2 large handfuls alfalfa...
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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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Recipe: Cava’s killer octopus, chicken and clam paella
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 45 minutes Serves 4 to 6 SOFRITO ¼ cup olive oil 1 large white onion, chopped 2 cloves...
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Recipe: Pork buns from Swish by Han, a down-and-dirty Korean take on the trendy snack
PREP TIME: 15 minutes | COOK TIME: 10 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: overnight Serves 4 to 6 SPICY PORK 1½ cups gochujang 2- to...
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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
Buy Canadian
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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