Restaurants

“We’re selling 1,500 burgers a week”: A Q&A with Alo chef Patrick Kriss, who turned Toronto’s fanciest restaurant into a takeout joint

"Obviously Alo isn’t a restaurant that we imagined with takeout in mind, but we’re in survival mode"

“I found out my restaurant was closed from social media”: Out-of-work servers on coping with the new normal

How five servers were coping, roughly a week into the present reality

“We have a rather large surplus”: Why a Toronto restaurateur added toilet paper to his takeout menu

Now you can add a side of TP to your order of rigatoni from Frankie's Italian

“My landlord said I should take ‘Iranian’ out of the name”: How five Toronto restaurateurs are dealing with the reality of the coronavirus

What happens when social distancing takes priority over sitting down for a meal

Inside the new Canoe, which just got a top-to-bottom makeover for its 25th anniversary

Not that it needed it, of course

A Joe Beef alum just opened Dreyfus, Toronto’s best new bistro

It's a classic French restaurant without the stuffy formality

At Ten, chef Julian Bentivegna has bet the farm on veg-forward haute cuisine

Go now, before he becomes a big deal

This guy is one of the most bankable names in the big-money world of fish on rice

He got two Michelin stars in New York, and now he’s opening an ultra-luxe, $500-a-head restaurant in Yorkville

Here’s what happened at the pre-opening parties for Pick 6ix, the new Drake-affiliated restaurant

Drake was in town to promote his new nightspot, and he brought some friends

Q&A: @ChefGrantSoto, the social-media satirist who’s become the TMZ of Toronto restaurants

"I could say the things that they couldn’t say"

Toronto Life’s Best New Restaurants 2017 event is on March 21, and tickets are on sale now

Grab them while they last

Toronto’s patio fee “nightmare” reminds us just how vital outdoor seating is—and not just for happy hour

"Myself and friends in the industry are talking about packing it in and moving up north"

This new Peruvian pop-up serves food that looks unreal, and tastes just as good

Chef Elias Salazar’s flavours deliver on the intensity of his food photos.

What’s on the menu at Lasa, a casual Filipino follow-up to Lamesa on St. Clair West

Owner Les Sabilano and chef Daniel Cancino want to bring Filipino food to a wider audience.

Good cooks are quitting the kitchen, and that’s bad news for your favourite restaurant

Experienced cooks are tired of being paid like the kid who shovels the driveway