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Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop
Name: Seven Lives Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 69 Kensington Ave., sevenlives.ca, @SevenLivesTO Owner and chef:...
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Tati Bistro is closing next month
After nearly six years on Harbord Street, Tati Bistro is winding down. Co-owners Wayne Parent and Whitney Brown made the...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Keriwa, JaBistro and Weslodge
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Trend We Love/Hate: ever-longer tasting menus
Engaged in a never-ending game of friendly one-upmanship, the city’s chefs started launching ever-more elaborate tasting menus...
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Trend We Love/Hate: the anti-local movement
In this age of conspicuous local consumption, a handful of chefs are racking up the food miles. We’d protest, but our mouths are...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Terroir-ism edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The...
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Trend We Love: ramen, ramen everywhere
Hello, Asian street food, goodbye rustic Italian. Ramen has supplanted spaghetti as the noodle of the moment. Below, our...
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Trend We Love: tableside ceremony
Chefs are perfecting their tableside manner and bringing a bit of ceremony back to dinner. We heartily approve.
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Seven big ideas from the food world insiders at this year’s Terroir Symposium
The vibe at the Terroir Symposium this year was decidedly touchy-feely. Hundreds of chefs, restaurateurs, wine...
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
recap: Caplansky’s edition
Guy Fieri wrapped up his too-brief tour of Toronto last week with a visit to Zane Caplansky’ s College Street deli. The...
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Introducing: Carmen, a new Spanish restaurant on Queen West from the owners of Torito
Name: Carmen Neighbourhood: Trinity-Bellwoods Contact info: 922 Queen St. W., 416-535-0404, carmensayz.com, @carmensayz Owners:...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Canoe, Chantecler and Acadia
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
Culture
Video: a trailer for the new Fidel Gastro’s TV show, which debuts next week
Rebel Without a Kitchen is a new reality show that follows Toronto food trucker Fidel Gastro (a.k.a. Matt Basile ) as he hustles...
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Introducing: Wiggle Room, a new East Coast street food stall at Scadding Court’s Market 707
Name: Wiggle Room Neighbourhood: Alexandra Park (Bathurst and Dundas) Contact info: 707 Dundas St. W. (second vendor from the...
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The Dish Power Rankings: April fools edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. A long...
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The ROM’s once-lofty C5 is closing at the end of the month
After six years, two head chefs and a dramatic culinary shift, the restaurant on the top floor of the ROM’ s Michael Lee-Chin...
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Review: Buonanotte, Charles Khabouth’s clubby Italian resto-lounge
Buonanotte ★★ 19 Mercer St., 416-599-7246 buonanotte.com Charles Khabouth does two things very well: pounding nightclubs and...
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Ravi Kanagarajah of Ravi Soups dies at 42
Ravi Kanagarajah , the chef and owner of Ravi Soups, died last Friday of a stroke at the age of 42. The Sri Lankan–born chef...
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Review: Porzia, a buzzy rustic Italian restaurant on the Parkdale strip
Porzia ★★ 1314 Queen St. W., 647-342-5776 porzia.ca Porzia’s timing is both good and bad. On the one hand, the owner-chef...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Introducing: Darwin, Little Italy’s new modern French bistro
Name: Darwin Bistro Bar Neighbourhood : Little Italy Contact info: 651 College St., 647-348-9347, Facebook Page, @DarwinBistroBar...
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Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs are gathering in April for Terroir, the city’s annual food summit
The Terroir Symposium is an annual event where chefs, restaurateurs and food writers—as well as hardcore foodie...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Brandon Walsh edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The top...
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Gourmet Gringos food truck is opening a standalone restaurant
Gourmet Gringos , the Latin American food truck that first hit Toronto’s streets last fall, is following the lead of Fidel...
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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