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Ho-Lee-Chow, ubiquitous purveyor of pseudo-Chinese food, closes its many doors
Ho-Lee-Chow —that omnipresent bastion of quick, North Americanized Chinese food—is going out of business after 20...
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Food & Drink
Joe Pantalone maintains his tough—and lonely—stand against merlot
Being a city councillor is a tough job—just ask deputy mayor Joe Pantalone . Fresh from killing Ossington’s buzz, he now finds...
Food & Drink
Gourmet magazine has balled its last melon
Gourmet is no more. The food world is mourning the loss of the magazine, which has been a cornerstone of North American culinary...
Food & Drink
Airport food guide, Tim Hortons’ big move, Tyra Banks eats from trucks
• Harried travellers are often at the mercy of the overpriced, under-flavoured food on offer in most airports. Well, Michael...
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Moms encourage kids to eat McDonald’s, the caveman diet, a Canadian-themed bar grows in Brooklyn
• Manhattan was besieged by a group of McMoms last week—a team of pro- McDonald’s matriarchs who were handpicked by...
Food & Drink
Top foodie Twitter feeds, Vegemite 2.0, answering an eternal barbecue question
• Barbecue season may be coming to a close, but frustration over uneven wiener-to-bun packaging knows no temporal bounds. The...
Food & Drink
Michael Smith’s tweeting imposter, coffee does not keep drivers alert, Mexican truffles come to T.O.
• Canadian chef Michael Smith, one of the Food Network’s biggest stars, was recently appalled to find that a fake Michael...
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Food & Drink
Victim of his own success: Zane Caplansky is out of smoked meat
Zane Caplansky, owner and operator of Caplansky’s Delicatessen , confirms on his blog that he will not be serving his famous...
Food & Drink
Airlines get into cocktail making, tattooing food, foodies vs. “foodiots”
• In an effort to improve the labelling of food, the American Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing fruits and...
Food & Drink
Dinner with Sarah Palin, fresh Ontario strawberries in autumn, the most carnivorous countries on earth
• An Alabama woman, who was apparently in search of good conversation about hockey and creationism, won an eBay auction for...
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Bacon-flavoured beer, the fattest city in America, the 50 best spots to eat the 50 best foods
• On a recent foray to Huntington, West Virginia (recently bestowed with the dubious distinction of being America’s fattest...
Food & Drink
New nosh at the ACC, urine is the secret to top tomatoes, chicken trade war turns foul
• The Air Canada Centre may become a mecca for hot-dog connoisseurs in Toronto, with a newly unveiled concession stand that...
Culture
Patrick Swayze passes away during TIFF and the awkwardness of getting celebrity death reactions
Every time a famous person passes away, news organizations call up a bunch of celebrities to get reactions, usually consisting...
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Busting the bubbly, how not to be a “label whore,” suing Seinfeld
• It’s been a bad year for champagne: global sales fell by 19 per cent in the first half of this year. As a consequence of the...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s new poutine truck, 10 dazzling super-foods, the ethics of pain-free animals
• Gourmet poutine is set to become Toronto’s newest street grub. Smoke’s Poutinerie , which spices up traditional poutine...
Food & Drink
The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
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Culture
Suck it, recession: Homegrown vampire flick gets picked up by Alliance
Our Canadian ego is swelling after news that the first TIFF film to sell its distribution rights is homegrown. Capri Vision Inc.'s...
Food & Drink
Freegans in Toronto dumpsters, NYC takes on fat, monkey brains top the squeamish list
• New York City is going visceral in its battle to keep citizens lean. A new ad campaign is being launched this month that hopes...
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Truffles to close, the KFC “float-thru,” 64,373 kilometres of Twinkie wrapper
• Truffles, one of Toronto’s most revered fine-dining institutions, will serve its last meal on September 5. Four Seasons...
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Robot chefs, 10 best American restaurants, Whole Foods boycott
• Chinese restaurant chain I Robot is being picketed by chefs who say their robot counterparts—which each do the job of five...
Food & Drink
Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent
Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are...
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Harper eats seal, celiacs can’t get a break, home butchery on the rise
• Prime Minister Harper and some of his cabinet cronies dined on seal meat yesterday in Iqaluit. The seal industry was hit with...
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Graydon Carter’s terrifying lunch, fruit fly infestation, DIY pizza ovens
Cure all: the story of Niagara prosciutto maker Mario Pingue appears in the Star (Photo by stu_spivack)• Every Ontario gourmand...
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Beer sales down, thief swipes grease, Frank Bruni passes fork to new critic
• A man was arrested in Britain after allegedly stealing 8,200 gallons of vegetable oil from restaurants all over the city of...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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
Deep Dives
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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