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Food & Drink
Prix fixe roundup: A sampling of the city’s latest recession-inspired menus
Bargain lunches, gimmicky pricing, tongue-in-cheek “bailout” menus—dining establishments across the city continue to find...
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Food & Drink
Free is the new black: Harvey’s and Timmies get into the giveaway game
As if Tim Hortons—arguably one of the most beloved commercial symbols of Canadiana—needs more press, the coffee giant is...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s new street meat, Parkdale’s food co-op start-up, the popification of wine
• Toronto’s ethnic street food program officially launched yesterday, with the $32,000 carts dishing out portable food across...
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Toronto’s Best Dressed: Roslyn Griffith Hall
In a sea of similarly dressed socialites at the launch party for the revamped Teatro Verde store in Yorkville, we came across...
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Food & Drink
Cheerios as a drug, boozing through bad times, Graydon Carter’s Monkey Bar
• James Yarker introduces Toronto to his interactive art installation that involves millions of grains of rice, each symbolizing...
Food & Drink
Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl talks about her mother, her serotonin and the brown bananas in her freezer
“I’ve always thought that privacy is overrated,” says avant-garde epicure and Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl . She is...
Food & Drink
Timmy’s triumphs, Jamie Oliver branches out, charging for tap water
• While the recession takes its toll on the restaurant industry, Tim Horton s seems to be unaffected. Its first quarter numbers...
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Food & Drink
Obama is pro-mustard, Ontario is pro-booze and Canada is pro-pork
• Last Tuesday, President Obama took a moment for a bite at Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia. Fox News...
Food & Drink
Elderly etiquette, Parkdale Potluck, and pork barriers continue to go up
• When dining at a restaurant, senior citizens don’t like to be referred to as “guys,” would like to have a glass of water...
Food & Drink
David Adjey cooks up a series that will save new dining spots from disaster
David Adjey, the beaming and bronzed saviour-chef of Restaurant Makeover, goes back to basics on his new Food Network series...
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Food & Drink
Dog food versus pâté, Ruth Reichl in Toronto, gardening madness
• Chowhounds don’t know from hound chow, according to a new study in which only three out of 18 volunteers were able to tell...
Food & Drink
Cluck, Grunt and Low silenced: The carnivore’s paradise closes rather abruptly
The meat lovers among us were surprised and saddened by today’s unexpected news : Cluck, Grunt and Low —the Annex ’s go-to...
Food & Drink
Another one bites the dust: Cru is the latest recession casualty
The much-lauded restaurant Cru (we gave it three stars earlier this year) closed its doors on unlucky April 13. Owner Hieu Nguyen...
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Food & Drink
More listeria lunch meat, hepatitis at the Hortons, why the U.K. loves Jamie Kennedy
• The ROM’s C5 ranks second in Food and Wine magazine’s list of the top 10 restaurants with a view. In your face, Santa...
Food & Drink
Britney goes locavore, swine flu comes to Canada, more Twittering chefs
• Mexican-origin swine flu —which has killed over 100 so far—reached Canada this weekend. Despite precautionary pork bans...
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Metro makes money, sustainable sushi and Gordon Ramsay’s fiscal nightmare
• British pop star Lily Allen is fined $2,000 for starting an ice cream fight in her dressing room after performing at the...
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Grilled cheese mania, ignoring Canadian restos, the LCBO’s bottom shelf
• Is it just us, or is grilled cheese the new poutine? The kiddie comfort food takes centre stage at this weekend’s Grilled...
Food & Drink
Best budget boozes, recession diets on the rise, gluttony leads to greenhouse gas
• Fuzion's shiraz-malbec from Argentina and Portugal’s Flor de Crastro won the title of best New World and Old World wine...
Food & Drink
Free coffee from McDonald’s, Toronto restaurants stayin’ alive, Keith’s moves west
• High-end restaurants like Perigee have been hit by the humbled TSX, but many others are adapting to the new market and staying...
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Wedding crashers: How caterers are dealing with budget nuptials
When caterer Rosalind Monster had a bride-to-be who wanted to prepare her own sushi bar and tried to get out of paying tax, she...
Food & Drink
TV chefs attacked for wastefulness, the dangers of at-work eating, Toronto restaurants raise money for HIV/AIDS
• Cash-strapped diners can eat out without feeling guilty on April 29, when 50 Toronto restaurants will team up with Fife House...
Food & Drink
Perigee, the final review
For six years, Perigee has been one of the city’s best fine-dining restaurants. Sadly, it is the latest casualty of the...
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Scaramouche stimulates appetites with (yet another) recession-friendly prix fixe
These days, set menus seem to be about as common as pink slips, and Scaramouche is no exception. On Tuesday, the midtown mainstay...
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The life of a locavore, peppery peepers and a BMO Field booze ban
• In an attempt to break a world record, Anandita Dutta Tamuly of India rubbed 24 chilies in her eyes and ate 51 “ghost...
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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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