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How does your Gardiner grow? Jamie Kennedy reveals his plans for the downtown dining destination
Having served the last à la carte meal at the Gardiner on June 7, local produce booster Jamie Kennedy invited professional...
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Studio Café gets a new chef and a new menu
The Four Seasons' Studio Café is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a shakedown this month, complete with a new menu from the...
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Fraudulent fish, vegetarian barbecue options, Spam’s new image
• Toronto restaurants are serving fraudulent fish. The Star went undercover and discovered that local sushi joints are passing...
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Open season: Moroco Chocolat unveils its summer patio
We expected an evening of mocha-fuelled madness at the opening of Yorkville’s Moroco Chocolat ’s patio last week. Instead we...
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Obama’s foodie cred, Susur’s American takeover, Anthony Sedlak’s new gig
• Obama-mania has spread to the Washington restaurant scene. The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to local gastronomes, who praise...
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Topless coffee shop goes bust, poisoned chickens, speakeasies on the rise
• A Ryerson University professor is developing a time-release salt that delivers an initial burst of flavour followed by smaller...
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Milagro: Movin’ on uptown
When brothers Andrés and Arturo Anhalt opened Milagro restaurant on Mercer Street, they did it to offer authentic Mexican cuisine...
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The Black Hoof trots across the street
The west end’s temple of charcuterie, The Black Hoof , is expanding. A new café under the same management will be located just...
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The lickable James Bond, a new organics logo, a defence of ketchup
• Del Monte has created a Daniel Craig Licence to Chill lollipop after polling British women about which celebrity they’d most...
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Scaramouche stays put for another year
Scaramouche’s long-standing lease fiasco has finally been resolved—at least for now. Rumours of the restaurant’s relocation...
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Anthony Bourdain hates cupcakes, Thuet gets convicted, Fall Out Boy’s underage flub
• Chef and author Anthony Bourdain tells the Seattle Times he's had enough of the cupcake trend, that Kobe beef should not be...
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Ossington ban blasted, Jamie Kennedy interviewed, insects in food dye
• Jamie Kennedy re-characterizes the closing of his Gardiner Museum restaurant as "shifting gears." Though stingy with...
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Barberian’s celebrates Louis Jadot’s 150th birthday with Geddy Lee, Jamieson Kerr and a meal money can’t buy
Like a speakeasy holding a social during prohibition, Barberian’s Steakhouse quietly hosted 29 guests in its wine cellar last...
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Ossington residents split on licensing ban
Forget the war on the car—a growing contingent of west-end residents is gearing up for a war on the bar. On Tuesday, city...
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Where to eat near BMO Field
Heading to the Toronto Football Club game next Saturday? Keep in mind that outside food and drinks are not allowed at BMO...
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Carman’s steak house closes for the summer
Carman’s—the ivy-shrouded steak house in the gay village—is closing its doors for three months starting in June. The closure...
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Food porn reflections, $5 lunches, bargain lobsters
• Restaurants are slowly finding their way through the quagmire of the economic downturn. The latest development? Many chains...
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Paella festival (and tapas tirades) underway at Embrujo Flamenco
This week, the Danforth’s slice of Spain, Embrujo Flamenco , is hosting a paella festival that features four daily spins on the...
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The city vs. Ossington, Michaëlle Jean takes heart, more kitchen nightmares for Ramsay
• Due to an increase in noise complaints from residents, the city has put a year-long moratorium on restaurant and bar licences...
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BYOB: Toronto restaurants drop corkage fees
Along with prix-fixe menus and pink slip parties (we’re looking at you, Globe ), reduced corkage fees have become a popular...
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Summerlicious restaurants announced
Get those dialing digits ready: the city has released its list of the 150 restaurants participating in the seventh edition of...
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It’s official: Coca has closed for good
After a saga of financial woes, the sudden departure of a star chef and an unexpected shutdown in March, the official word on...
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More recession-struck boîtes go belly up
Although the stock exchange is out of meltdown mode, restaurants are still suffering the aftershocks of recession. We’ve already...
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Critic’s criteria, Belgians champion “Veggie-Dags,” Chili’s comes to Canada
• Last Thursday marked the opening of Canada’s first Chili’s Grill and Bar (think generic family dining covered in Velveeta...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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