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Matty Matheson
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Chef Matty Matheson’s selfies with celebs
His Instagram account is chock full of stars
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Maker Pizza opens in Chinatown
And Parts and Labour's Matty Matheson designed the menu
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A look inside bro-chef Matty Matheson’s kitchen (and his fridge)
How the executive chef of Parts and Labour, P&L Burger and Dog and Bear cooks at home
Food & Drink
Free beer and burgers in Parkdale
Parts and Labour, the rowdy restaurant and bar responsible for at least some of the intermittent griping about "Partydale" and its...
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Matty Matheson, on how fickle food nerds are screwing up Toronto’s restaurant scene:
That's just one of the problems faced by the city's aspiring restaurateurs, according to Parts and Labour chef Matty Matheson. His...
Food & Drink
Toronto chef Matty Matheson: “We don’t want a 45-year-old food writer to understand what the fuck we’re doing”
— Matty Matheson , the notoriously hard-partying (but recently reformed) chef and owner of Parts and Labour in...
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VIDEO: Watch Jennifer McLagan peel lamb’s testicles with Matty Mattheson
The last time the words “sizzle reel” were deployed on TorontoLife.com, they were in reference to Lake Shore, the ill-advised...
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See the official menu for Chef Grant Soto’s “Night of Gravitas” (vomitorium not included)
The menu for “A Night of Gravitas,” a charity dinner on a boat hosted by the local Internet troll “Chef Grant Soto” (also...
Food & Drink
A look at the pork-mad garden party that was the Group of Seven Hogtown Throwdown
What do you get when you give eight chefs a Perth Pork pig, some beer and wine and an open-air venue to host an event? A...
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Chef Grant Soto to reveal his identity at a charity boat dinner in July
He routinely makes fun of foodies from the safety of an anonymous Twitter account, but on July 25, chef “ Grant Soto” will be...
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Terroir 2012 recap: what we saw, heard and ate at the big annual food industry meet-up
Last week, 500 members or so of Canada’s food and hospitality industry gathered for Terroir VI at the newly renovated Arcadian...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 30 to May 6
Monday, April 30 Tuesday, May 1 Wednesday, May 2 Thursday, May 3 Friday, May 4 Saturday, May 5 Sunday, May 6
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 9 to 15
Monday, April 9 Tuesday, April 10 Wednesday, April 11 Thursday, April 12 Friday, April 13 Saturday, April 14 Sunday, April 15
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: something offal
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada seemed perfectly calibrated to appeal to the foodie audience, from the chef skills...
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Matthew DeMille to leave Enoteca Sociale
Over the weekend, Swallow Food reported that Matthew DeMille, the chef de cuisine at Enoteca Sociale, would be stepping away from...
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Canoe Shack-Up: Au Pied de Cochon’s Martin Picard brings his Quebec crew for an epic, maple-soaked feast at Canoe
Acclaimed Montreal chef Martin Picard , best known for his haute-rustic gastronomic temple Au Pied de Cochon, was in town to...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 12 to 18
Monday, March 12 Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16 Saturday, March 17 Sunday, March 18
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Three years in, Charlie’s Burgers brings Le Châteaubriand—the world’s ninth-best restaurant—to Toronto
Charlie’s Burgers, the original Toronto pop-up, just celebrated its third birthday in February, six months after the Globe and...
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Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada reveals the rather stacked list of guest judges for season two
Remember last year when Chris Cosentino, one of the pioneers of the offal revival, visited Toronto for undisclosed reasons and...
Food & Drink
This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond
Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this...
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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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Matthew DeMille, formerly of Parts and Labour, takes the helm as Enoteca Sociale’s new chef
Earlier this month, Enoteca Sociale , the popular west-end Italian wine bar, posted a notice on their website that their long...
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Terroir 2011 roundup: we talk to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the foodie symposium
A couple weeks back, 400 members of the food and hospitality industry gathered at Hart House for Terroir V. The annual symposium...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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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
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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
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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
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