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Parts and Labour
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Here’s what it looks like when Matty Matheson has a dinner party
The Parts and Labour chef serves up a home-cooked meal as only he can
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Food & Drink
The life (and near-death) of bad-boy chef Matty Matheson
How the hard-partying chef resurrected a brand built on debauchery without the vice
Style
Toronto’s Best Dressed: Richard Lambert
The west-end club king spills his innermost style secrets
Food & Drink
Toronto’s most ridiculous mac-and-cheese dishes
Nine over-the-top, ooey-gooey good takes on the comfort-food classic
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Food & Drink
Chef Matty Matheson’s selfies with celebs
His Instagram account is chock full of stars
Food & Drink
A look inside bro-chef Matty Matheson’s kitchen (and his fridge)
How the executive chef of Parts and Labour, P&L Burger and Dog and Bear cooks at home
Food & Drink
Meat and Co.: how restaurants like Yorkville’s opulent NAO are reinventing the steak house
Last fall, I met with five friends for a bachelor party at Barberian’s, that most old-school of steak houses. Little has changed...
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Free beer and burgers in Parkdale
Parts and Labour, the rowdy restaurant and bar responsible for at least some of the intermittent griping about "Partydale" and its...
Food & Drink
Matty Matheson, on how fickle food nerds are screwing up Toronto’s restaurant scene:
That's just one of the problems faced by the city's aspiring restaurateurs, according to Parts and Labour chef Matty Matheson. His...
Food & Drink
Toronto chef Matty Matheson: “We don’t want a 45-year-old food writer to understand what the fuck we’re doing”
— Matty Matheson , the notoriously hard-partying (but recently reformed) chef and owner of Parts and Labour in...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
Food & Drink
The owners of Parts and Labour are opening a new burger shop on Queen West
In August, Parkdale’s hardware-store-turned-restobar Parts and Labour scored the title for Best Burger in Toronto on CMT’s new...
Style
Greta Constantine throws a raucous Parkdale dinner party to preview the fall 2013 collection
Greta Constantine designers Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong once again opted out of fashion week for Fall 2013, instead feting...
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A new boutique hotel and restaurant is coming to Queen Street West
Before Toronto became all about big-name luxury hotel chains, the The Drake and The Gladstone were emblems of the city’s love...
Food & Drink
The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Watch Jennifer McLagan peel lamb’s testicles with Matty Mattheson
The last time the words “sizzle reel” were deployed on TorontoLife.com, they were in reference to Lake Shore, the ill-advised...
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Momofuku Fever: we review David Chang’s new four-in-one mega-restaurant
David Chang’s new complex on University Avenue—three restaurants and a bar—puts a Toronto spin on a New York phenomenon In...
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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...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Junction Flea, Ellie Goulding and six other events on our to-do list
1. THE JUNCTION FLEA Presented by Smash and Russet and Empire, this eclectic outdoor market features vintage and kitschy items...
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We called our 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to find out when you can still get a table
With this year’s Summerlicious festival winding down (the last day is Sunday), we decided to call up the top 10 most clicked-on...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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A look at the pork-mad garden party that was the Group of Seven Hogtown Throwdown
What do you get when you give eight chefs a Perth Pork pig, some beer and wine and an open-air venue to host an event? A...
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Introducing: The Dog and Bear, the traditional British pub that took over from The Social
The latest addition to gentrifying Beaconsfield Village is a simple space that’s designed to service the increasing number of...
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Chef Grant Soto to reveal his identity at a charity boat dinner in July
He routinely makes fun of foodies from the safety of an anonymous Twitter account, but on July 25, chef “ Grant Soto” will be...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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