Restaurants

“Your body can only take you so far working in a kitchen”: Why a Toronto pastry chef left restaurants to become a paralegal

Cora James climbed to the top of the pastry profession before she started looking for an exit

“When you’re working 16-hour days, you don’t have time to consider anything else”: How the pandemic gave two Toronto restaurant lifers a fresh start in Bracebridge

New career tracks, new outlook—and a mortgage that's half as much as their rent was

“By the end of the first month, we’d made triple our rent”: This ex–PR pro teamed up with her mom to open a Korean restaurant during Covid

"People thought we were crazy for opening a restaurant during Covid"

Toronto chefs, restaurateurs and regulars pay tribute to the restaurants and bars we lost in 2020

We asked them to eulogize their favourite haunts

I’ve been cooking in a Hamilton restaurant for most of the pandemic. I love my work, but sometimes it feels like a game of dodge-the-virus

“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"