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Sort-of Secret: Wine Pairing Company
A pop-up dining series that matches Chinese dishes with sakes, wines and beers
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Korean fried chicken pop-up Dubon is coming to Baldwin Village in early April
A new pop-up restaurant called Dubon Chicken is taking over Elle M’a Dit on April 8, 9 and 10 to serve its take on the latest...
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Introducing: Rock Lobster, the new Ossington incarnation of the popular pop-up restaurant
Recently there’s been a slew of Toronto Underground Market vendors graduating to permanent operations. First La Carnita opened...
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The Feasting Room nears the end of its successful pop-up run
In June, we told you about The Feasting Room, a nose-to-tail pop-up restaurant with a new six-course menu devoted entirely to one...
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GALLERY: Nick Liu’s GwaiLo pops up at Soho Metropolitan’s Senses
It’s been almost a year since we first told you about GwaiLo, a new restaurant from chef Nick Liu (Niagara Street Café) and...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 10 to 16
Monday September 10 Tuesday September 11 Wednesday September 12 Thursday September 13 Friday September 14 Saturday September 15...
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Top Chef Canada contestants to reunite for next Charlie’s Burgers dinner
Charlie’s Burgers, the no-longer-quite-so-elusive dining experience helmed by Franco Stalteri, has released (sparse) details...
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Come and Get It might just keep them coming to get it until the winter
Fans of the Queen and Spadina pop-up restaurant Come and Get It can thank the carmageddon-inducing construction work going on just...
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Introducing: Hidden Kitchen, a dinner series brought to you by a ghost chef, an ex-chef, a guest chef and a craft brewery
Trying to keep up with the many pop-up food events in Toronto is a challenge, what with their unpredictable locations and...
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Introducing: La Carnita, the bricks-and-mortar incarnation of the pop-up taco sensation
Last July we introduced you to La Carnita, the city’s first pop-up taco stand. It was also, of course, a cheeky experiment by...
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GALLERY: Banana Mafia’s inaugural Asian Street Market party
Last night was the first gathering of the Banana Mafia crew at the Amsterdam Brewery. This alliance of chefs was brought together...
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Pop-Up Madness: A look behind Toronto’s pop-ups, dinner series and roving restaurants
Rogue chefs are making some of the city’s most creative food in restaurants that are here today, gone tomorrow On a...
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Charles Khabouth and Hanif Harji to host Spanish pop-up at Storys this week
Last fall, Charles Khabouth (La Société, Cube) and Hanif Harji (ex- Kultura, Nyood ) promised to combine their restaurateuring...
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La Carnita to quit its wandering ways and open a permanent shop on College Street
La Carnita, the wildly popular roving taco stand, has finally found a spot to settle down, according to a post by Corey Mintz on...
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Introducing: Come and Get It, the very temporary Spadina pop-up resto that’ll turn into a condo before you know it
Back in December, we told you about a mystery pop-up taking over the space once occupied by the Jamaican restaurant Ackee Tree...
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The musical kitchen chairs continue at Maléna and L’Unità with Matthew Sullivan’s departure
Back in October, we reported that Matthew Sullivan, fresh off his abortive pop-up series Boxed, had taken over the reins at...
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Grant Van Gameren teams up with Top Chef Canada’s Connie DeSousa for Calgary pop-up
Grant Van Gameren, former chef and owner of The Black Hoof and currently the chef at Enoteca Sociale, has teamed up with Connie...
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Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s, the sandwich-toting pop-up revolutionary
2011 has been a big year for ephemeral eating in Toronto. There was the (sort of) rise of food trucks, the smash-hit Toronto...
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Mystery pop-up restaurant to take over former Ackee Tree spot in January
Walking down Spadina past the old home of Ackee Tree the other day, mourning the jerk chicken sandwich and sweet potato fries of...
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GALLERY: at this month’s TBD dining series, Acadia’s Matt Blondin let loose
TBD is a monthly dining series that brings some of the city’s top chefs together with one of the foodie world’s current...
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Introducing: the second stop on the Drake Dining Roadshow, 1940s L.A. Chinatown
Back in June, we told you about the Drake Hotel’ s Dining Roadshow , a series of thematically changing restaurant concepts...
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VIDEO: The Drake releases a puzzling trailer for the next iteration of its Dining Roadshow series
In what’s probably a Toronto first, The Drake has released a trailer for the next iteration of its Dining Roadshow series of in...
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Mini Food Truck Eats today to feature El Gastrónomo Vagabundo and Francisco Alejandri of Agave y Aguacate
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Introducing: La Carnita, Toronto’s here today, gone tomorrow pop-up taco stand
Last Thursday, Toronto’s first pop-up taco stand, La Carnita , appeared. One hour later, it disappeared. The only advance...
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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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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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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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