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Up the ramp
To Eigensinn Farm yesterday for Michael Stadtländer’s Wild Leek Festival, a fundraiser for local women’s shelters. It was a...
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Advertising? In the city?
When it comes to the city’s new street furniture contract , you have to take my perspective with a grain of salt. You see, I’m...
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The Wine Tasting Challenge
To Via Allegro on Monday for the awards lunch of The Wine Tasting Challenge. It’s an extraordinary competition, created by Via...
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La grande boutique
Now it can be told. Last Friday, Fatos Pristine, the laird of Cheese Boutique, and his sons signed the papers on a...
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Chin up, Bobo
The best places for lunch in Toronto? Not too hard a question. The Gallery Grill , Jamie Kennedy’s Wine Bar and his place at the...
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Sushi Time
Wine of the Week Oroya 2005Spain, $13.95, Vintages April 14, #25775(score 86) Created by Spanish giant Freixnet, this seemingly...
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Steamed muscles
It’s amazing how a casual remark can alter weather patterns across the planet. Last week, I pointed out to a friend that I had...
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The cheese stands alone
Saturday was a most exciting day for this cheese-eating peacemonkey, when I had the signal honour of being inducted into the...
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New York and breakfast
Just got back from a 72-hour, 9-restaurant eating visit to New York City—not a feeding frenzy, more an exercise in relentlessly...
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Nostalgia not what it was
While I was away last week, I received an email from Donna Dooher announcing that Mildred Pierce will close its doors for good on...
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Nunc est Bibendum
In London for a few days, where Jamie Oliver is raising cash for Comic Relief doing commercials with children and the must-see TV...
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Many Small Treats
It’s good doing business with people who work on the Danforth because you tend to have meetings and brainstorming sessions at...
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Out for the County
When the good folks at Myriad Restaurant Group in New York telephoned certain top seafood suppliers in Toronto, this...
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First Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Champion
This weekend, in Whistler, B.C., we held the first ever Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championship—the culmination of a...
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Concha y Toro Rarely Misses
Wine of the WeekConcha Y Toro 2006 Trio Sauvignon Blanc **** ($14.15, LCBO #678656) Casablanca Valley, Chile The Trio line joins...
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Fishy business
I still can’t get over the fact that skate is endangered! Skate! Not a rich man’s fish. Indeed, as recently as last year, it...
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The Wine of the Week & The Napa Follies
Errazuriz 2005 Carmenère **** ($13.95, LCBO #16238, Aconcagua Valley, Chile) And now for something very affordable. New to the...
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In Vino Verity
To Verity —the excellent club for women at 111 Queen Street East—for a midweek rendezvous in the library hosted by...
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East-West Reunions
Good news for the city: Patrick Lin is coming back from Hong Kong to take over as Executive Chef of Senses down at the Soho...
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Globe Bistro
Finally got to Globe Bistro on the Danforth, where Café Brussels used to be. I had called half a dozen times since it opened in...
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Queue is for Quince
Anyone who lives in the Yonge Street-Davisville-Eglinton area and has more than a passing interest in food must know La Salumeria...
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Champagne’s Finest Hour
Virtually every adult I’ve talked with over the holidays is staying home this New Year’s Eve--or at least within walking...
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Smells like burao
One evening last week, while propping up the kitchen counter at Canoe (a restaurant currently at the very top of its game), I was...
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Best of November ‘06
In November I attended 16 events in Toronto, Ottawa and Kingston, tasting approximately 400 wines. It wasn't easy therefore for a...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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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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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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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