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What’s on the menu at Parallel Basta, Kensington Market’s 7,000-square-foot temple to tahini
It’s the brand-new sister spot to the Geary Avenue location
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What’s on the menu at the Haifa Room, an Ossington restaurant serving creative takes on Palestinian and Israeli dishes
Including (wait for it) schnitzel-fried pita
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What’s on the menu at Babel, O&B’s new Mediterranean restaurant in the Bridle Path
There are 22 countries represented on the menu
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How Parallel, Toronto’s new temple to tahini, creates one seriously saucy Middle Eastern mash-up
It's name: Hammshuka
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What’s on the menu at The Halal Guys, Toronto’s first location of the New York food-cart favourite
It opens May 5 at Yonge and Wellesley
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Rise in the East: Byblos, Fat Pasha and the Middleterranean craze
Toronto’s Middleterranean dining scene (that’s a mash-up of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean) moves beyond falafel houses and...
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Introducing: Cleo, a new spot for Middle Eastern cuisine near Yonge and Lawrence
Name: Cleo Contact Info: 3471 Yonge St., 416-440-0700, cleorestaurant.ca Neighbourhood: Hoggs Hollow Owner and chef: Sam...
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Review: Middle Eastern restaurant Tabülé’s chic new Riverdale outpost
Tabülé ★★ 810 Queen St. E., 416-465-2500 Have an opinion on Tabülé? Add your review here »
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Review: Iranian brunch with a touch of ceremony at Takht-e Tavoos in Dufferin Grove
Takht-e Tavoos ★★ 1120 College St. W., 647-352-7322 Tavoos, a new Iranian brunch restaurant from the owners of The...
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Tabülè opens a new eatery in Riverside
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TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Ben Affleck reveals the secret to faking Canadian at the Argo presser
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New Scarborough foodie festival draws unusual (but delicious) suspects
T.O. Food Fest, which hits Scarborough’s Chinese Cultural Centre in two weeks, is trying to shake up the food festival...
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Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 10 Mideastro
The loungey Yorkville room hums with well-to-do regulars enjoying the back-slapping hospitality of owner Leon Goldstein. Chef...
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Toronto’s Top Delivery: three of midtown’s best order-in options
(Images: Liam Mogan. Food styling by Linsey Bell/judy inc.)
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Amaya empire to expand into the lucrative kiddie birthday biz with Bazaar: Global Food Bar
It seems the man behind Amaya is no longer satisfied with merely serving Indian food. According to a story in The Grid, Hemant...
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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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Chef survey lists the top 10 food trends of 2010
Health nuts and celiac sufferers, rejoice. A survey of chefs reveals that 2010 will be the year of simplicity, sustainability and...
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Eat the Oscars: 10 Toronto dishes—one for every best picture nominee
Hosting an Oscars party is going to be tough this year. With 10 nominations for best picture, instead of the usual five, making...
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Where to eat near the Toronto Centre for the Arts
Much of Toronto’s restaurant buzz remains south of Bloor, but North York dining offers its own benefits. For starters, there are...
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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
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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
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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
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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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Almost
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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“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
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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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