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The Dish Power Rankings: muddied waters edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. After four...
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Bartender Moses McIntee is leaving Museum Tavern
After helping launch Museum Tavern last summer, peripatetic bartender Moses McIntee (Ame, Paese, Lucid) has accepted a gig as...
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Barbecue restaurant Que Supper Club is opening soon on Queen East
Toronto’s first-ever barbecue-centric supper club will be launching soon at Queen and Parliament. Que Supper Club will serve...
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Seven food trends at 2013’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Each year, we head over to the annual Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show to get a look at the big new food...
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The scraps, stunts and multi-million-dollar investments behind Charles Khabouth’s empire of cool
Life is one never-ending, exclusive party in Charles Khabouth’s 17 faddish restaurants and nightclubs. For those of you who have...
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The Grand Electric team opens Electric Mud BBQ around the corner from their taco joint
The pair behind Grand Electric pulled a fast one last weekend, quietly opening Electric Mud BBQ on Saturday with barely a lick of...
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Must-Try: the delicious, deadly chili stingray at Hawker Bar
In Southeast Asia, the plentiful fish known for wielding its venom-tipped tail with unholy accuracy is a typical market stall...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Buca, Ursa and Canoe
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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Artisan doughnut shop Jelly is opening a shop on College Street
Calgary-based Jelly Modern Doughnut is continuing the donutification of the city, opening the first Toronto location of their...
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Review: The Whippoorwill, the latest Bloordale brunch spot
The Whippoorwill ★½ 1285 Bloor St. W., 416-530-2999 Bloordale’s newest brunch spot deploys all the ubiquitous diner-kitsch...
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The Dish Power Rankings: how the powerful stay powerful edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. Edulis...
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Torito is opening a new restaurant on Queen West
The Kensington Market Spanish tapas bar is launching a second location between Shaw and Crawford in the space formerly occupied by...
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Flavour of the Month: delicious reinventions of the classic Caesar salad
The vintage salad has endured all manner of permutations since its birth in the ’20s, but none as luxe, light and irreverent as...
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Perennially busy Guu Izakaya now takes reservations
The izakaya infamous for long line-ups is finally taking reservations. Guu is the latest formerly first-come, first-serve...
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Review: Dyne, an inventive Iberian-Asian restaurant in Yorkville
The homophonic name and Iberian-Asian concept are stuck in the ’90s, but everything else about Richard Andino’s new restaurant...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Frank’s Kitchen, Porzia and JaBistro
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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Review: Karelia Kitchen, a cheerful new Scandinavian café
The cheerful new Scandinavian restaurant from chef-owners Leif Kravis and Donna Ashley is one of the only places in Toronto to...
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Introducing: Appetite, Riverside’s new gourmet food shop
Name: Appetite Neighborhood: Riverside Contact info: 722 Queen St. E, 416-850-8835, whetyourappetite.ca, @Appetite722 Owners:...
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Review: Ramen Raijin, a downtown noodle shop specializing in milky pork-bone ramen
Toronto’s noodle revolution continues with Raijin, a Vancouver transplant specializing in tonkotsu ramen. Instead of combining...
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Introducing: The Burgernator, a new shop for burger lovers in Kensington Market
Name: The Burgernator Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact info: 269 Augusta...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Top Chefs and Bieber power
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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Review: Playa Cabana Cantina, the Junction’s raucous new taco bar
Proof that the Junction is the next hot neighbourhood: it now has the city’s best tacos. Playa Cabana, the crammed Annex...
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Critic: JaBistro—Guu for grown-ups—brings prestige sushi to clubland
The team behind Toronto’s cultishly popular Guu restaurants cranks up the luxe factor at JaBistro It’s a Tuesday night in...
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Introducing: Bazara, Ossington’s new spot for sushi
Name: Bazara Asian Cuisine Neighbourhood: Ossington strip Contact info: 188 Ossington Ave., 647-748-0288, bazara.ca Owners: Sammy...
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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