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Mark McEwan
Food & Drink
Mark McEwan’s new restaurant, Fabbrica, will finally open on Friday
Two little reminders: one, Shops at Don Mills still exists, and two, Mark McEwan will be opening his casual Italian...
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Food & Drink
There’s still a chance to be yelled at by Gordon Ramsay when he comes to T.O.
The city’s celebrity chefs converged at the George Brown cooking school yesterday at a media launch for Chef’s Challenge...
Food & Drink
Gordon Ramsay, Mark McEwan and Lynn Crawford head up epic celebrity cook-off at the Carlu
Normally, we have to watch celebrity chef battles from our couches, but this November, we’ll have a chance to see it all live...
Shopping
Best of the City 2010: Toronto’s top shopping
Men’s madras shirt Jonathan and Olivia 49 Ossington Ave., 416-849-5956 Madras is the hot new plaid, in light organic cotton and...
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City News
Hot child in the city: Drake is on the patio at One
Drake is apparently over his fear of rough-and-tumble Toronto, because he's on the patio at One , the oh-so-exclusive Yorkville...
Food & Drink
We ask the top chefs at Toronto Taste what’s in store at George, Splendido, Scaramouche and the rest of the city’s hot restaurants
This past Sunday marked the 20 anniversary of Toronto Taste, the annual event that unites Toronto’s food lovers and food makers...
Food & Drink
McEwan tapped to be head judge on Top Chef Canada—plus, hilarious questions from the contestant application form
Not surprisingly, Food Network Canada tapped charismatic Toronto chef Mark McEwan ( Bymark , One ) to be the Canadian Colicchio on...
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Food & Drink
Four of Toronto’s best food splurges
Despite the ascendancy of comfort food, some occasions still require more than a tricked-out sandwich. These four posh dishes are...
Food & Drink
Canada gets its own Top Chef; wild speculation ensues
News came over the wire today that Canwest is producing a Canadian version of Top Chef that will air on the Food Network next...
Real Estate News
Home of the week: $6.1 million to live in Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel
ADDRESS: 118 Yorkville Ave. (a.k.a. the Hazelton Hotel), Suite 501 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Yorkville AGENT: Janet Marlene Lindsay, Chestnut...
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Food & Drink
The Path Guide: 24 spots worth getting lost for
Even those who were born and raised in Toronto have a hard time navigating the city’s underground labyrinth, with its dead...
Food & Drink
Fresh and Wild jumps on the “convenience food” bandwagon
As we reported a few months ago, the trend in food shopping is toward streamlined shops that offer prepared food for busy...
Style
McNally Robinson blames Shops at Don Mills for Toronto store failure
Earlier this week, we reported on over 30 stores that didn't make it through 2009. The list included a handful of indie...
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Food & Drink
Cooking classes: the gift that gives back to the gifter
Unsurprisingly, cooking class registration increases in the weeks after Christmas, as wannabe chefs redeem gifts of culinary...
Food & Drink
Sasha Chapman on the return of the TV dinner
The chatter started months before Mark McEwan opened the doors to his gourmet groceteria last June. The choice of location, which...
Food & Drink
Q&A: legendary chef Thomas Keller on his culinary empire
A crowd of 450 (including top Toronto chefs Ted Corrado, Mark McEwan , Bonnie Stern and Donna Dooher ) gathered at the Toronto...
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Food & Drink
David Lee and his chicken cartilage take home top honours at the Toronto edition of Gold Medal Plates
The bar was raised mighty high last night for the city’s haute cuisine scene with a head-to-head cook-off between some of...
Food & Drink
McEwan to open new Italian restaurant, still eyeing the downtown Travelodge for new supermarket location
The hugely successful McEwan supermarket at Shops at Don Mills is keeping Mark McEwan north of Bloor as he plans to open his...
Food & Drink
Five no-sweat Thanksgiving meals
Attention, time-crunched turkey lovers. This weekend, some of Toronto’s top chefs and gourmet shops are offering no-fuss...
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Food & Drink
Black garlic takes Toronto, Christopher Walken chickens out, the world’s largest hamburger
• Christopher Walken has posted a YouTube video showcasing his cooking skills. In the video “Man Makes Chicken With Pears,"...
Food & Drink
The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
Food & Drink
Supermarket heap: Gourmet grocers colonize the city
There has been a sudden influx of gourmet grocers and grab-and-go eateries in Toronto. Many have been—or will be—created by...
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Food & Drink
Summerlicious reservations down at top restaurants
We’re halfway through the annual gastronomic bonanza known as Summerlicious, when droves of thrifty gourmands and aspirational...
Food & Drink
Stalk market: Rhubarb is finally in season—here are five ways to experience it
Spring’s first two gastronomic stars (fiddleheads and ramps) are already out of style and season, which means that punch-packing...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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