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GALLERY: The Stop’s annual What’s on the Table fundraiser brought out Toronto’s top chefs—and their biggest fans
For philanthropists with a gourmet bent, What’s on the Table, the big annual fundraiser for The Stop, is kind of a big...
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GALLERY: Nick Liu’s GwaiLo pops up at Soho Metropolitan’s Senses
It’s been almost a year since we first told you about GwaiLo, a new restaurant from chef Nick Liu (Niagara Street Café) and...
Food & Drink
Gallery: Susur Lee, Michael Stadtländer and other notable Toronto chefs prepare soups of all kinds at Soupstock 2012
An estimated 40,000 soup-seeking revellers and 200 chefs traveled to Woodbine Park last weekend to attend Soupstock 2012, the...
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
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Iron Chefs: how the fine dining institution Splendido creates culinary superstars
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 10: that’s a wrap
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: Banana Mafia’s inaugural Asian Street Market party
Last night was the first gathering of the Banana Mafia crew at the Amsterdam Brewery. This alliance of chefs was brought together...
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Enter the Banana Mafia: new posse of chefs to throw Asian Street Market party
While Nick Liu’ s fans wait for the opening of his new Asian brasserie GwaiLo, the former Niagara Street Café chef has been...
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Terroir 2012 recap: what we saw, heard and ate at the big annual food industry meet-up
Last week, 500 members or so of Canada’s food and hospitality industry gathered for Terroir VI at the newly renovated Arcadian...
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Gallery: the highly-anticipated collaboration between Jason Carter and Daniel Burns, two of Canada’s top out-of-work chefs
This weekend, 90 diners gathered over three nights at Mitzi’s on College for one of this year’s most highly anticipated...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 26 to April 1
Catch A Matter of Taste , which follows 10 years in the life of Paul Liebrandt, at the Revue Cinema on Thursday Monday, March 26...
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Nick Liu shows off some culturally promiscuous cooking at the preview dinner for his new restaurant, GwaiLo
Earlier this year, chef Nick Liu left Niagara Street Café to launch GwaiLo, a modern Asian brasserie-to-be with business partner...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 1: and we’re baaaaaack
Let’s face it: season one of Top Chef Canada wasn’t perfect. Some people complained that the cooking lacked...
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Nick Liu to throw a pair of preview dinners for his new Asian brasserie, GwaiLo
Back in January, we reported that Nick Liu had left Niagara Street Café and was planning to open some manner of Asian brasserie...
Food & Drink
Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
Culture
Top Chef Canada season two contestants announced; here are your six Toronto chefs
With the sophomore season of Top Chef Canada set to premiere on March 12, Food Network Canada has finally introduced the 16 chefs...
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Steve Gonzalez to fill in at Niagara Street Café as owner Anton Potvin readies it for sale
Last week we reported that Nick Liu is leaving Niagara Street Café to open his own place, an Asian brasserie. As it turns...
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Nick Liu leaves Niagara Street Café to open an Asian brasserie
After manning the stoves at Niagara Street Café for three years, Nick Liu, who won acclaim for his ever-changing menus and...
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This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond
Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this...
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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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Despite some reservations, Toronto will appear on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations
Toronto chefs and foodies, take note: Anthony Bourdain , the reformed bad boy of the culinary world, beloved potty mouth and host...
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Summit Scene: dispatch from inside the G20’s kitchens by local restaurateur John Lee
Flak jackets, photo badges and the K-9 unit are a rare sight at catering functions (more often a staple of the ensuing...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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