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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best poutine right now
As comfort-food season closes in, we rank the city’s best carb-heavy combos
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20 of Toronto’s most preposterous, over-the-top piles of poutine
Bookmark this page for easy late-night referencing
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Free poutine in Yonge-Dundas Square
Wander down to Yonge-Dundas Square this weekend and you'll not only score some free food, you'll also get to watch other people...
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Nine preposterous poutines available at Toronto’s new French fry emporium
Earlier this month, Montreal chain Poutineville opened its first Toronto location, at Bloor and Brunswick in the Annex. This place...
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Next week is Toronto Poutine Week (no, really, it is!)
Poutine, the Celine Dion of greasy snack food, used to be a quirky French Canadian oddity. Now it’s a North American...
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Canada, say hello to McDonald’s poutine (and check out 17 other McOddities from around the world)
McDonald’s Canada sparked a rapturous online love - fest on Tuesday when it announced that its poutine, previously only...
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Toronto Poutine Fest is coming to the Beer Academy in August
Toronto wholeheartedly embraces its gustatory vices, throwing daylong bashes to celebrate notorious artery-cloggers like chicken...
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Pizza Hut unleashes its latest gimmick pie: the cheesy beef poutine pizza
The sure sign that a food trend has exploded beyond niche status: it’s co-opted by a fast-food chain. Pizza Hut Canada is...
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Jones Soda gets in on the Canadiana trend with its intense new poutine-flavoured pop
Jones Soda, the Vancouver company known for its wacky flavours, is bringing a poutine-flavoured drink to Canada. The beverage is...
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A taxpayer-funded food truck is serving poutine and tourtière on the streets of Mexico
Even the Canadian government is getting in on the food truck trend. Agriculture Canada is currently touring a branded food truck...
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Culture
The Layover in Toronto: Anthony Bourdain’s favourite spots and best quips
For last night’s episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain and his merry crew squeezed as many of Toronto’s culinary delights...
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A culinary tour of some of this year’s deep-fried wonders at the CNE
For last year’s Canadian National Exhibition, we brought you eight culinary innovations, including the god-awful (but much...
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QUOTED: Anthony Bourdain on Toronto’s discerning taste
– Anthony Bourdain praising Toronto’s shrewd musical preferences in an interview with Ivy Knight for the Globe and Mail...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 25 to July 1
Monday, June 25 Tuesday, June 26 Wednesday, June 27 Thursday, June 28 Friday, June 29 Saturday, June 30 Sunday, July 1 Farmers’...
City News
Memoir: two young protesters find love among the tents at Occupy Toronto
I’m a 28-year-old film editor, and I don’t want for much. I live in a spacious apartment on a quiet street off Queen West. I...
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Hold the gravy: fast food chains in Canada among the saltiest in the world
It’s no big secret that sodium levels in fast food can be astronomical, but according to a global study, Canadian fast food may...
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Boy band + Twitter endorsement = teen girl pilgrimages to Lou Dawg’s for poutine and brownies
Marketers of cheese curds and gravy take note: the way to a young woman’s heart (and stomach) appears to be through her Twitter...
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Q&A with Chuck Hughes: the hunky Garde Manger chef on tattoos, Mexico City and poutine appropriation
Since Chuck Hughes opened Garde Manger in 2006, he’s been steadily rising in the celebrity chef world (he even bested Bobby Flay...
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High-speed rail travel between Toronto and Quebec could radically affect poutine consumption
The Toronto Star obtained a report that says a high-speed rail link between Toronto and Quebec City is viable, and the details...
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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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Chuck Hughes becomes the first Canadian chef to beat Bobby Flay on Iron Chef
Chuck Hughes, chef at Montreal restaurant Garde Manger , won Iron Chef America this past weekend, succeeding where few competitors...
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Introducing: Fanny Chadwick’s, a friendly new diner in a familiar Annex spot
For years, the house-turned-restaurant at the corner of Dupont and Howland has been something of a neighbourhood eyesore, a...
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Tribute bonanza: Wayne Gretzky celebrates his 50th birthday
The Great One hit the big five-oh today, and news media across the country are rolling out their tributes to the kid from...
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Poutine makes the list of “nine weirdest food festival dishes”
We thought that since poutine had established a foothold as far away as New York City that it was slowly shaking its status as a...
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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
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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
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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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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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“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
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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