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Toronto’s best bread right now
Our picks for the city's best boules, batards and baguettes
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Toronto’s best bakeries
Our favourite places to stock up on boules, baguettes, batards and all loaves in between
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Inside the kitchen of Café Boulud chef de cuisine Sylvain Assié
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, charcuterie, truffles, foie gras and champagne
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we’re in the midst of a bread renaissance
Fate has dealt a cruel hand to gluten-sensitive types, because there has never been a better time to buy...
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Petite Thuet’s financial district shop closing in April
For the past five years, local gourmet food chain Petite Thuet' s One King West outpost has been nourishing downtowners with fresh...
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Five top baguettes, from classic white to multigrain and seed-crusted
1. Thobors’ Multigrain Chef Marc Thobors, a Parisian transplant, makes the city’s fluffiest, chewiest baguette with the most...
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Introducing: Hogtown Charcuterie, Kensington Market’s new spot for prepared meats
It’s no secret that pig is big right now. The aptly named Hogtown Charcuterie, in Kensington Market, offers a wide selection of...
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Toronto Taste 2012: We catch up with the chefs and owners of Buca, Nota Bene, Splendido, Salt and many more
This past Sunday marked the 22nd edition of Toronto Taste, which saw 2,000 food enthusiasts gathering at the ROM to meet some of...
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See how chefs (from Frank’s Kitchen and Woodlot) feed each other at a fundraiser for one of their own
Over the last couple of months, we’ve reported on events where cooks and restaurateurs have donated their time and resources to...
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Toronto Taste 2011: We get the latest news from top chefs and restaurateurs from Woodlot, Buca, Nota Bene, O&B and many more
Two thousand of Toronto’s food lovers and makers gathered at the ROM on Sunday for the 21st edition of Toronto Taste . The...
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Rosedale-Summerhill Guide: 23 need-to-know places along Yonge Street’s poshest stretch
Yonge Street’s poshest stretch, from Ramsden Park up to the Summerhill LCBO, has two strong suits: food and decor. Locals from...
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Toronto’s top five loaves
Loaf lovers are seeking out breads with character at indie bakeries. 1. ALSATIAN SOURDOUGH With a crisp crust, chewy crumb and...
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A total epiphany: the 12th day of Christmas wouldn’t be complete without traditional galette des rois. Here’s where to get them in Toronto
Today is Epiphany—the 12th and final day of Christmas—which celebrates the day when the biblical three kings arrived to honour...
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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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Four of Toronto’s best sandwiches
Is it just us, or has the humble sandwich conquered every menu in the city? Below, four tasty picks from this year’s sandwich...
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Five food trends we have a love-hate relationship with
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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Go west: Marc Thuet leaves T.O. to take Conviction to B.C. and the U.S.
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are leaving Toronto to take on Vancouver and the United States. Following the success of their two...
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Twelve Treats of Christmas: amazing edible (or drinkable) gifts for the indulgent epicure
Now is the time of year when Toronto’s patisseries and food shops offer a tremendous selection of goodies that cater to the most...
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Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent
Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are...
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Best fast food, revolutionizing restaurant reservations, the true origins of haggis
• America’s star chefs have chosen In-N-Out Burger as their favourite fast food joint. Nine members of the 27-judge panel...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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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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Almost
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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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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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