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Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
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Where chef Rob Gentile eats lamb biryani, bone broth and doughnuts in his east-end neighbourhood
His favourite places to go in Corktown, Leslieville and Little India
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What’s on the menu at Bar Buca, Rob Gentile’s new all-day spot at Yonge and Eglinton
Hope you're hungry, midtown
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Why Buca Yorkville’s branzino crudo is one of Toronto’s most essential dishes
We're asking some of the city’s top food folks about their favourite T.O. meals
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
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Buca is expanding to the 905
Get ready, Vaughan
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Real Weddings 2016: Inside Buca chef Rob Gentile and wife Audrey’s rustic celebration at the Burroughes Building
Spoiler alert: the food was amazing
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What was served at Buca Yorkville’s $300 Michelin-starred dinner
There was a blowtorch involved
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Inside the kitchen of Buca’s executive chef Rob Gentile
A few of the things it's stocked with: champagne, homemade turkey chili and a ton of olives
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Toronto’s top 10 late-night snacks, and where to find them
Ten places in Toronto to eat really great, really late
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Six zucchini flower dishes that won’t be around for long
These awesome blossoms are on menus right now
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What Buca chef Rob Gentile finds foraging—and how he uses it
Everything the Buca team found in the forest, and what they did with it all
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Buca Yorkville hosts another Michelin-starred Italian chef
Here's a look at last night's one-off meal
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Buca Yorkville hosts Michelin-starred Italian chefs
Here's a look at last week's one-off meal
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Introducing: Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver’s first North American restaurant, at Yorkdale Mall
And everything on the family-friendly menu is sustainable and ethically sourced
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Culture
The Weeknd’s homecoming, a Warhol retrospective and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 2
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Loka Snacks’ Dave Mottershall is Kickstarting a restaurant (and he’s looking for a west-end location)
Chef Dave Mottershall , who operates Loka Snacks out of Riverside's Hi-Lo Bar , has a goal: to open his own restaurant. But what...
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The high price of cheap shrimp: where restaurants get their prawns from and why you should care
We’ve gradually come to care about how our beef is raised, who stitches together our clothes and the carbon footprint of our...
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Way-out wagyu: Michelin-starred Massimo Bottura’s psychedelic steak from Buca’s one-of-a-kind dinner
Aimed at showcasing Italy’s culinary kicks, "Sotto una buona stella" (or, "under a lucky star") dinners will see six...
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Jamie Oliver is opening a restaurant at Yorkdale (and nine more across Canada)
Instead of flitting straight to New York or Los Angeles like every other celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver —the floppy-haired...
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The Critic: Rob Gentile’s new Bar Buca seduces with tripe, tendon and twists of pig skin
I’ve developed a taste for blood first thing in the morning. Rob Gentile, the chef at Bar Buca, mixes fresh pig’s blood into...
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Recipe: how to make Buca chef Rob Gentile’s buffalo ricotta-stuffed cannelloni
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 44 minutes Serves 3 TOMATO SAUCE 2 lb fresh roma tomatoes ½ cup olive oil ¼ white...
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Recipe: Buca chef Rob Gentile’s bittersweet puntarelle salad with crispy fried smelts
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 2 minutes Serves 2 to 4 PESTO 2 cups loosely packed basil leaves ¼ cup olive oil 1 tbsp toasted...
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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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Almost
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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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand