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Oliver and Bonacini
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Ceci Bar, O&B’s colourful new cantina
Where it’s summer all year round
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What’s on the menu at Biff’s Bistro, the second coming of O&B’s long-running French restaurant
Including some returning favourites and recipes resurrected from Biff’s beginnings
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What’s on the menu at Open Aera’s glamorous 4,500-square-foot rooftop patio
It’s on the 39th floor of the Well
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What’s on the menu at the Dorset, O&B’s new British bar and restaurant inside the Well
Including a full English breakfast and fish and chips
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Everything to eat and drink at Queen’s Cross, the Eaton Centre’s fancy new 19,000-square-foot food hall
Each vendor (including one full-service bar) is courtesy of Oliver and Bonacini
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What’s on the menu at La Plume, a new French restaurant and speakeasy inside the Well
Including five types of tartare and five different steak frites
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What’s on the menu at Aera, O&B’s new steakhouse on the 38th floor of the Well
Think of it as Canoe's slightly more relaxed (but still pretty sleek) younger sibling
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What’s on the menu at The Joneses, O&B’s new restaurant dedicated to retro Americana
Including shrimp cocktail, Detroit-style pizza and ice cream sundaes
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What’s on the menu at The Rabbit Hole, O&B’s new Financial District gastropub with a multi-level patio
Including classic British snacks and all kinds of cocktails
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Toronto restaurants and stores selling boxes filled with everything you need for a backyard barbecue
The only thing you need to provide is the grill
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Toronto restaurants and food shops doing Father’s Day barbecue, brunch and booze boxes
Also: a virtual omakase
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What went down at the TL Insider Fireside Chat with Andrew Oliver, president and CEO of Oliver & Bonacini
“No one is a competitor anymore. We’re all peers, and we are in this together"
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What’s on the menu at Maison Selby, O&B’s new French restaurant inside a 136-year-old heritage house
Including all the French hits
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What’s on the menu at Beauty Barbecue & Smokehouse, Oliver and Bonacini’s new spot in North York
Bayview Village: Now with more barbecue
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What was served at Toronto’s first all-garbage food festival
Beer, vodka and gourmet snacks—all made from what would otherwise become food waste
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What’s on the menu at Liberty Commons, a giant brewpub from O&B and Big Rock Brewery
Touchdown!
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What’s on the menu at Leña, O&B’s new Argentine restaurant in Saks Fifth Avenue
Chef Anthony Walsh is behind the all-day menus
Life
Real Weddings 2016: The head of Oliver and Bonacini holds a swanky celebration
A bowties-only bash with oysters, champagne and plenty of foie gras
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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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Inside the kitchen of Canoe and Auberge du Pommier chef John Horne
Screech, moose meat and an original Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
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What’s on the menu at O&B’s redesigned Biff’s Bistro
One burst pipe later, it has a whole new look and menu
Culture
A Leon Bridges show, an appearance from Gloria Steinem and nine other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of March 7
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Where O&B’s Miheer Shete eats Indian food in the burbs
His favourite restaurants in Mississauga (and what he orders at each one)
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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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Best New Restaurants
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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
Big Stories
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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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