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Royal York Hotel
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of JW Foster, the Fairmont Royal York’s executive chef
A few of the things it’s stocked with: honey, oysters, vegan gelato and pizza dough
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Reign, the Fairmont Royal York Hotel’s new restaurant, bar and bakery
Including this fancy fish-bowl cocktail
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Clockwork, the Fairmont Royal York’s new champagne and cocktail lounge
The hotel got a makeover for its 90th birthday
Life
A look inside the Royal York’s new, extra-luxurious “hotel within a hotel”
A new look for a few floors inside a classic Toronto hotel
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Real Estate News
The Royal York Hotel is up for sale
Anyone with a significant amount of money to spare could become the owner of a Toronto landmark, because, as the Globe reports...
Shopping
Mother’s Day Guide: 10 ways to treat your mom to a memorable day out
Your mom loves you, so she’ll no doubt coo over a standard Mother’s Day bouquet. However, you can really show the depth of...
Style
GALLERY: 60 shots from Lucian Matis’s fall/winter 2012 show
Lucian Matis kicked off Toronto Fashion Week last night at the Royal York Hotel, and we saw feather dresses, feather skirts, lace...
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Style
Gape at Celine Dion’s shoes, for a good cause
The Manulife Centre Ron White store is set to become a regular Bata Shoe Museum at 1 p.m. tomorrow with the unveiling of a display...
Culture
Martin Sheen joins Royal York Hotel picket line for 20 minutes
His son may have been spotted at the Drake's rooftop patio, but Martin Sheen seems to prefer a more street-level approach to...
Culture
TIFF troubles: Royal York workers set to strike tomorrow
Last week, a bedbug scare and a one-day workers' strike at the Hyatt Regency had TIFF organizers in a tizzy. This week, Royal York...
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Real Estate News
Prince Philip and 250,000 homes left in the dark
A large part of the city was in the dark yesterday evening as a power outage swept Toronto's financial core and west end at 4:45...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Epic Restaurant
The ultimate power lunch: the three-course prix fixe at the Royal York makes for refined, delicious multi-tasking The place:...
Food & Drink
Wayne Gretzky goes back to his pre-Olympic work: promoting wines, curling
Bedlam ensued at the Royal York Hotel last week as Wayne Gretzky mingled with guests, signed autographs and sipped wine from his...
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Food & Drink
The Path Guide: 24 spots worth getting lost for
Even those who were born and raised in Toronto have a hard time navigating the city’s underground labyrinth, with its dead...
Culture
CanCon at TIFF: Atom Egoyan’s latest and Heath Ledger’s final film among newly announced titles
Even though it’s just a press conference, the announcement of Canadian lineup is considered to be the unofficial pre-gala...
Food & Drink
Follow the Tweeter: More Toronto chefs, bars and restaurants hop on the Twitter wagon
Chefs and restaurateurs across the city are heading into the Twitterverse in a big way. Since our last roundup of Toronto foodie...
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Food & Drink
Rotten timing: The strike and the city’s restaurants
Restaurant owners aren’t exactly singing “Solidarity Forever” these days. With such services as garbage collection and...
Food & Drink
Easter Eating 2009
For Torontonians who are not so confident in the kitchen, or who simply prefer to spend Easter handling mimosas rather than...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
“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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
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
Food & Drink
“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