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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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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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Chef Matty Matheson’s selfies with celebs
His Instagram account is chock full of stars
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
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
Food & Drink
“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