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The most popular Winterlicious menus of 2009
With data collected from Torontolife.com's “Best of Winterlicious” feature, we’ve figured out the fan favourites of this...
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Bread is the thread
The barn floors are in, and Union is feeling like a French tavern. There is something about the way Paris eats and feeds itself...
Food & Drink
The best food and drinks for an Oscar party
If hosting an Oscar-night party is your kind of thing, then we bet kitschy movie-themed drinks and snacks are, too. So, we've...
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Terroni’s culinary masterminds open new downtown restaurant
The new addition to Terroni 's restaurant empire, Osteria Ciceri e Tria, is now open on Victoria Street. Find out what's being...
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Ultra unveils its new(ish) image
When Ultra Supper Club announced that it was relaunching under the name Ultra, it was hard to believe that much would change at...
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The pre-heat is on: start the countdown to Gordon Ramsay’s Toronto restaurant
Food & Drink
Making a menu for Union
My friend Ten Gallon asked me the other day how I was holding up. I said, “I am getting nervous, but I’d be more nervous if I...
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Toronto’s recession reaction: forget Starbucks, open 10 new cafés
Is it just us, or are independent coffee shops becoming as common as month-long Boxing Day sales? We counted a minimum of 10...
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Hurry up, people: Winterlicious begins today
Today is the first day of WinterCity, Toronto's annual festival of outdoor concerts, plays and, most importantly, affordable food...
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Surviving Winterlicious 2009
The paper menus. Getting a cramp in your redial finger. Booking first, choosing dining companions after. Eating at Winterlicious...
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The detestable, wonderful celebration of brunch
“I don’t do brunch.” That’s what I tell people when they ask me if I want to eat out at midday on Sunday. Brunch just...
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Getting good birds in your kitchen
My brother, Chase, and I dropped by JoAnn the Chicken Lady’s farm last weekend. We were picking up a bird for me to...
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The first Ontario farmers’ dinner party
The way I see it, I am only as good as my last dinner. Thesedays, however, as I wait for Union to open, I guess I am only as good...
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Smoking my way to a unique charcuterie plate
The cold weather makes for good smoking, so I’ve been in the farm’s smokehouse a lot lately with duck breasts and suckling...
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Butchering with the big boys at Cumbrae’s
While Union is being pieced together, I’ve been taking apart whole lambs and pigs at Cumbrae’s . I go in on Wednesdays because...
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A taste of the food to come
My last stint in Italy was in Siena. I got into town at 3 p.m. and found a dingy little hotel room, then stopped at an enoteca...
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It was Foodstock!
I was at the very first Canadian Chefs’ Congress last month. Its creator, Michael Stadtländer, is a chef, farmer, artist and...
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Chicken, splake, stools and Wilford—bringing the farm inspiration to Toronto
I spent the weekend at the farm, smoking chickens for an upcoming dinner—I dry cure them first and smoke them for a day and then...
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The legend of slow food
The area around Alba, Italy, is where the concept of slow food originated. The legend goes that three charismatic guys from Bra...
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On cooking local
Trying to cook local isn’t always easy. You have to work with what you have in front of you. And when you’re challenged, that...
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Go to Pastis: Drawing inspiration from a Toronto dining fixture
When I first came back to Toronto, I met a fridge mechanic—“a good guy to know, and the best in the city,” testified my...
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Bringing something different to Toronto
Last time, I mentioned how I was going to invite some of the Ontario farmers I’ve met for a meal made with their own...
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Cooking local, eating well
When I think about the food that I want to slide onto the tables at Union, I always come back to the same place: the Rungis market...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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
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
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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
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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
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
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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