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Food & Drink
Course correction: At his audacious new restaurant, Alo, Patrick Kriss revives the sullied art of the tasting menu
The new restaurant at Queen and Spadina is the best to open in the city this year—in many years, in fact.
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Introducing: Alo, Patrick Kriss’s refined addition to the corner of Queen and Spadina
Name: Alo Neighbourhood: Queen West Contact: 163 Spadina Ave., 3rd floor., 416-260-2222, alorestaurant.com , @AloRestaurant Owner:...
Food & Drink
Patrick Kriss to bring refined dining to Queen and Spadina with Alo
Last November, ex-Acadia chef Patrick Kriss announced he was opening his own restaurant in Toronto. Alo is now slated to start...
Food & Drink
Matt Blondin is no longer at Momofuku Daishō
Matt Blondin, the ambitious Toronto chef that came up through Colborne Lane’ s modernist kitchen before opening Acadia in...
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Chef Patrick Kriss leaves Acadia
Food & Drink
Trend We Love: Quail eggs, pickled, smoked, fried, boiled and raw
Quail eggs have two principal virtues that distinguish them from chicken eggs: they’re tiny and they’re cute. They don’t...
Food & Drink
Behind the Pass: a daylong stage with El Gastrónomo Vagabundo, the GTA’s food truck pioneer
Earlier this year we sent regular Dish contributor Renée Suen to complete a one-day culinary stage at fine dining institution...
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Iron Chefs: how the fine dining institution Splendido creates culinary superstars
Food & Drink
Splendido announces its new chef de cuisine: Tom McHugh
Back in May, we told you about Patrick Kriss’ s decision to leave his chef de cuisine gig at Splendido (where, in addition to...
Food & Drink
Splendido chef de cuisine Patrick Kriss to take over the kitchen at Acadia
If you haven’t heard a lot about Patrick Kriss yet, you will soon. Owners Scott and Lindsay Selland have revealed to...
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Foie gras, surprise caviar orders and one tight ship: my 12-hour stage at Splendido
Our regular contributor Renée Suen was recently invited to put away her fork and don an apron to stage at Splendido (a culinary...
Food & Drink
Chilled out: how to make Splendido’s elegant cold zucchini soup at home
“On a hot day, the best thing to follow an icy cocktail is a bowl of cold soup. The secret to this version’s vibrant...
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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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