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Toronto restaurants offering fancy food for takeout and delivery
For when pizza and wings won’t cut it
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Seven stellar ways to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2020
Including a canapé crawl at Assembly Chef's Hall and a karaoke bash at Dasha
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Where to eat, drink—and yes, spot celebs—during TIFF
20 places to potentially rub elbows with the stars
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The best restaurants on King West right now
Our favourite restaurants along the King-Adelaide corridor
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Inside the kitchen of Montecito chef Matt Simpson
A few of the things it's stocked with: Chicago Mix popcorn, gelato, booze and swizzle sticks
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The top 25 places to eat, drink and party during TIFF 2017
And maybe even rub elbows with a star or two
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The 25 best pastas in Toronto right now
From agnolotti to ziti
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Where the stars ate during TIFF 2016
Turns out poke is pretty popular with celebs, too
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The Insider’s Guide to TIFF 2016: where to eat, drink and party
Rub shoulders with Hollywood royalty at these surefire festival hot spots
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Seven of the city’s best baby-friendly bars
Where both babes and parents can have their respective bottles
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How Canoe celebrated its 20th anniversary
The restaurant welcomed back past chefs and front-of-house staff to work with the current crew for a one-night-only tasting menu
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What the stars ate during TIFF: 26 celeb-approved meals from Toronto restaurants
Find out what Kristen Stewart ordered at Hooters, where Sarah Silverman had pizza and what George Clooney did with the second patty of his double-patty burger at Bosk
Culture
Spotted: Kristen Stewart at Hooters, Sarah Silverman at Woofstock, and a lot of Johnny Depp
As TIFF goes on, Toronto's relationship with its A-list guests starts to change. We've reached the uncanny valley of...
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Culture
Spotted: Geoffrey Rush kills at karaoke, Elisabeth Moss cradles the world’s largest bottle and a few stars need to look where they’re going
A good celebrity run-in is magical. Sure, it's always cool to see an A-lister on the red carpet or at a PR event, but there's...
Culture
Spotted: Jessica Chastain at brunch, Martin Landau kissing hands, and Kate Mara at Holt’s
Last night marked the official opening of TIFF 2015, but today was when the magic really started to happen: the day celebrities...
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Taste of Toronto 2015: a sneak peek at some of the dishes being served at this year’s Fort York food fest
Taste of Toronto returns to Fort York this summer with another all-star line-up of culinary heavyweights. Besides the food...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #19, Montecito
The movie director Ivan Reitman owns a condo in the Festival Tower and wanted somewhere nice to eat, so he flew up his favourite...
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Top Five: the best celebration spots in Toronto
The finest venues for popping a cork or popping the question Two restaurants in a handsome 19th-century building are reviving surf...
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All Dressed Up: chopped salads with a twist
Clever chefs are gussying up traditional chopped salads with luscious, irresistible ingredients, like fried garlic, frog legs and...
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California Dreaming: Montecito delivers grown-up food to the Entertainment District
Celebrity chef and farm-to-table pioneer Jonathan Waxman and his director-pal Ivan Reitman bring a grown-up restaurant to Adelaide...
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In Absinthia: where to sip the strong stuff in Toronto
The legendary wormwood liquor of green fairies, severed ears and global bans is in the midst of a revival. Here, three excellent...
Spotted: Robert Pattinson at the Montecito lounge
On Tuesday night, Robert Pattinson showed up sans reservation at Montecito for a casual dinner with three non-celeb pals. The...
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Spotted: Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Ivan Reitman having an impromptu
Ghostbusters
reunion
Over at Ivan Reitman ’s restaurant, Montecito, it’s all Ghostbusters all the time. On Sunday the director and producer even...
Culture
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner fête the debut of
Men, Women & Children
at Montecito on Adelaide West
The after-party for Men, Women and Children, sponsored by Las Vegas (yes, the city itself), proved an interesting one—not only...
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand