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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Why tipping is going away (and why I’ll miss it)
As more Toronto restaurants go gratuity-free, how are we to reward good service?
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Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #9. Toronto’s gastropubs make the best Sunday roasts
Chef Andrew Carter offers a traditional beef roast at the Queen and Beaver pub near Yonge-Dundas Square. But with a few days’...
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Where to eat and drink near the 2012 Grey Cup
With 52,000 rabid and Stamps fans crowding the streets around the Rogers Centre on Sunday, you need a game plan for pre- and...
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Nuit Mange: where to eat in the middle of the night during Nuit Blanche 2012
Nuit Blanche opens on Saturday night at 7:03 p.m. (see our full guide ), and with an entire night of roaming Toronto’s...
Culture
SPOTTED: Adrian Grenier stays casual, gets a bite to eat at O&B Canteen
Adrian Grenier, the former Entourage star and producer of the TIFF doc How to Make Money Selling Drugs, was snapped by an intrepid...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 places to eat
Amid the cocktail swilling and celebrity gawking, eating can be an afterthought during TIFF. Good news: there are plenty of...
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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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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...
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Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Sarah Polley eating for two at O&B Canteen on King West
Yesterday we caught wind that Sarah Polley is three-and-a-half months pregnant, which means the soon-to-be mom is soon-to-be...
Culture
TIFF after hours: the 44 (and counting) film fest venues with the coveted 4 a.m. last call
Every year celebs from all over the world flood into the city for TIFF, but for many, it’s the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of...
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Introducing: Bannock, Oliver and Bonacini’s new café and restaurant at The Bay’s flagship store
It’s no secret that Hudson’s Bay Co. has undergone some big changes in recent years. The retailer’s revitalization project...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a pretty beet salad and a pair of seared scallops at O&B Canteen
Finding decent fuel between movies and celebrity gawking can be difficult during TIFF, but one advantage of the festival’s move...
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Mark Wahlberg purchases an exclusive penthouse property in the city that saved his life
TIFF is still a few months away, but the celebrity sightings are already starting. In the last week alone , Robert Pattinson made...
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Six places to watch this Friday’s Royal Wedding in style
The Royal Wedding is more than just another way for Canadians to express their fondness for the motherland; Kate and Will are also...
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Five things we learned about O&B from Corey Mintz’s behind-the-scenes feature
With the recent announcement that Toronto’s ever-growing food service company Oliver and Bonacini Restaurants is set to make The...
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Terroir 2011 roundup: we talk to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the foodie symposium
A couple weeks back, 400 members of the food and hospitality industry gathered at Hart House for Terroir V. The annual symposium...
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Muskoka’s Windermere House latest annexation in the ever-growing Oliver & Bonacini empire
After three new restaurant openings last year ( O&B Canteen , Luma and O&B Café Grill ), a $1 million facelift at Canoe and a...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
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Just Opened: we review O&B Canteen and Brockton General
Brockton General 1321 Dundas St. W., 647-342-6104 The usual rules of running a restaurant don’t apply at this tiny former sports...
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The Bell Lightbox is also a giant money box
The numbers are in. Not surprisingly, credit card spending was up in the Entertainment District, while Yorkville saw a slight...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Peek inside TIFF’s new home, the Bell Lightbox
“Why are we here?” a young child asks his mother inside the freshly opened Bell Lightbox. What a poignant question. We had...
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Introducing: O&B Canteen, Oliver and Bonacini’s restaurant in the eye of the TIFF storm
After eight years at suburban Auberge du Pommier, chef Jason Bangerter was called downtown to head up Luma and O&B Canteen at the...
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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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“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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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
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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
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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