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Sweet Scoops: 22 of the city’s top ice cream cones
These make us wanna scoop
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Festive Feast: the top 20 artisanal treats of the season
A hedonistic reverie of hand-crafted, artisanal, drop-dead-delicious holiday treats ’Tis the season for reckless...
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Must-Try: Splendido’s slow-roasted carrots prove that veggies have star power, too
Magical things happen when chefs treat vegetables with proper respect. At Splendido, Victor Barry elevates humble carrots by...
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Must-Try: a syrupy treat made from Quebec goat milk
Goat milk jam sounds funky, but this sweet, faintly licoricey spread is a luscious indulgence. The Petit family—who own one of...
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Must-Try: junky movie snacks get an elegant upgrade at Richmond Station
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Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s sweet and silky pork carpaccio
Eating raw beef is commonplace in Toronto. But the thought of eating raw pork can be cringe inducing. Unlike beef, raw pork is...
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Must-Try: the voluptuous Muscovy duck from Woods
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Must-Try: Ruby Watchco’s velvety chocolate chestnut soup
A surprising appetizer at Ruby Watchco makes chocolate the star Desserts with savoury ingredients are nothing new, but sweets for...
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Must-Try: Lamesa’s tropical, multi-textured (and very purple) Filipino sundae
At Lamesa, chef Rudy Boquila’ s fusion food draws an equal mix of Queen Westers and Filipino families chatting away in...
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Must-Try: the smoky monkfish foie gras from Hapa Izakaya
Toronto chefs are infusing just about everything with wood smoke. At Little Italy’s Hapa Izakaya, chef Koichi Fujioka’ s foie...
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Must-Try: Richmond Station’s chocolate mousse topped with frozen blue cheese
Chefs are saving their weirdest tricks for dessert, concocting savoury experiments like eggplant frozen yogurt (Bero), bone marrow...
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Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s drop-in, heart-obsessed Valentine’s Day feast
For those whose Valentine’s Day plans haven’t quite panned out, take heart—literally. For this weekend only, the offal...
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Must-Try: colourful, two-bite cream puffs that say “I love you” better than a card
Translated literally, “petit chou” means “little cabbage”—a quirky French pet name for kids and intimates. At...
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Must-Try: Fonda Lola’s portable homage to the Mexican caesar salad
Despite its long-running association with gingham tablecloths, caesar salad is actually a Mexican invention. It was dreamed up in...
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Must-Try: Hudson Kitchen gives humble broccoli an inspired makeover
Robbie Hojilla, the chef at the new west-end bistro Hudson Kitchen, has reclaimed broccoli from mushy ignominy. His salad is an...
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Must-Try: the fanciest doughnut imaginable from Bosk at the Shangri-La Hotel
Canada’s favourite trashy snack gets a sophisticated, savoury makeover at Bosk, the fine-dining restaurant in the Shangri-La...
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Must-Try: the award-winning black truffle and matsutake mushroom salad from Splendido
At this year’s city-wide Gold Medal Plates competition—the culinary equivalent of the Olympics for Toronto chefs— Splendido...
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Must-Try: The homey foie gras brûlée from Woodlot in Little Italy
There are few things more quintessentially French than crème brûlée—except perhaps foie gras. At Woodlot, the cottagey...
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Must-Try: a picture-perfect holiday feast delivered right to your door
Too often, adventures in holiday home cooking involve sharp knives, gravy-splattered floors and the general air of a trauma...
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Must-Try: the delectable and not-too-sweet fig kataiv at Mideastro Yorkville
The delicious possibilities of melding two adjacent cuisines—Mediterranean and Middle Eastern—are rarely as apparent as they...
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Must-Try: Rhum Corner’s surprisingly autumnal sno-cone
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Must-Try: the s’mores at Catch on St. Clair are an exercise in sensory overload
Charlotte Langley, the new chef at Catch, is a talent on the rise. The P.E.I. expat took over the kitchen in May, infusing the...
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Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s apple skillet cake has a surprisingly salty topper
The Black Hoof, the Dundas West bistro from restaurateur Jen Agg, is famous for amping familiar dishes with unusual, offal-centric...
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Must-Try: Auberge du Pommier’s emerald-green frog leg tempura
Among Gallic delicacies, frog legs haven’t had the same staying power as steak frites and duck confit. Marc St. Jacques, the...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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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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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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“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