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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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Spirit of Hospitality
Last Monday, with the Leafs away and the Raptors resting, a more boisterous gathering took over the Air Canada Centre’s Platinum...
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The Toronto Taste Challenge
It’s usually the Maple Leafs who put their reputations on the line at the Air Canada Centre, but Monday there was an event of...
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Dairy King
On September 25, I posted a sad tale of being ripped off by a restaurant on Corfu . I had put it all behind me, as one must, but...
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The Real Beaujolais
Did you have your glass of Beaujolais Nouveau this weekend? I know, it’s about as much fun as a flu shot. I have been in four...
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Come to Whistler
So, David Gaunt is now chef at Crush after leaving Eagles Nest golf club. I haven’t tasted his Crush menu yet but he’s...
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More Golden Plates
I flew into Winnipeg on Thursday for the second Gold Medal Plates event of 2006, the tournament preoccupying me in recent weeks...
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All That Jazz
Life always seems a little brighter when you hear of an honour being bestowed upon someone who truly deserves it. On October...
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Chile Showdown in Toronto
First they took Berlin, then Tokyo, then São Paolo. But Toronto proved no pushover. Earlier this month Eduardo Chadwick, the...
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Now It Can Be Told
The third meal alluded to in last week’s post was an extraordinary progressive dinner hosted by Stephen Leckie in celebration of...
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Tubers in the Moonlight
A peculiar week has yielded three very different but memorable meals. First, a dinner at Truffles , enjoyed on October 2. My wife...
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Terra Madre
Mother Earth—the clay from which we are all formed. Except for those who sprang from the ocean’s foam or who came here from a...
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In Tray
Back to Toronto just in time to catch the damp end of summer. Now I can put away my Ernie Whitt bat and T-shirt and look for my...
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Good and Evil
“Put some pictures into your blog,” instruct the powers that be. “Brighten it up a bit!” What next—music? But they have...
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Corfu Report
From Holland to Greece for a stay at our old house in the mountains of Corfu, carrying on with renovations that have preoccupied...
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In Leiden
To Leiden in the Netherlands for a four-day visit, spending my days walking the cobbled streets beside the canals in the...
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Kulture Vulture
News trickles in that chef Claudio Aprile’s business partner at Colborne Lane, due to open in November, is none other than the...
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Many Tomatoes
We’re all still dazed by the news reported in David Lawrason’s blog that the LCBO computer is delisting Tio Pepe fino...
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Treadwell: A Father and Son Match
Many chefs and sommeliers talk of food and wine matching, but it’s always a joy to walk into a restaurant where chef and...
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Tundra Lobsters
Attempting, perhaps, to ward off humanity’s cultural extinction, Sutter Home, the venerable Californian winery that gave the...
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Sail Away
A weekend I always look forward to is fast approaching—August 18,19 and 20— the annual tour of Niagara when David Lawrason and...
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Sommelier School and Washington Whites
While most wine drinkers, buyers and sellers have booked off for a summer hiatus—to finally sit back and enjoy those great value...
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Armageddon
What a strange week. Scorching heat, tornados and torrential rain. Ventured out into the neighbourhood to buy lunch, wading...
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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For Sale: 23 Lippincott Street
New York sensibility meets Parisian soul… in the heart of Toronto
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For Sale: 35 Yorkdale Crescent
Purchase for less than $325.00 per square foot, not including exterior landscaping and swimming pool
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For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade
This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot