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Recipe: seared trout and smashed taters from seafood restaurant Starfish
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes Serves 4 SEARED TROUT AND SMASHED POTATOES 3 Spanish onions ½ cup plus 1 tbsp...
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The 15 Toronto restaurants recommended in Where Chefs Eat, a new culinary guidebook
Where Chefs Eat is a new 633-page collection of answers to a very simple question: where to go for a good meal? Those answers are...
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Gallery: Susur Lee, Michael Stadtländer and other notable Toronto chefs prepare soups of all kinds at Soupstock 2012
An estimated 40,000 soup-seeking revellers and 200 chefs traveled to Woodbine Park last weekend to attend Soupstock 2012, the...
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Gastropub Crawl: the good and great among the new wave of British pubs
Can a new crop of British pubs push the comforting cuisine beyond stodgy pigs and puddings? Toronto is a town obsessed with the...
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We called our 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to find out when you can still get a table
With this year’s Summerlicious festival winding down (the last day is Sunday), we decided to call up the top 10 most clicked-on...
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Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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We dropped by the Great Toronto Tartare-off to discover a meatetarian frenzy
Last night, Grapes for Humanity corralled some of the city’s top culinary talent under one roof (that of the Fairmont Royal York...
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This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond
Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this...
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Two Torontonians duked it out for national oyster shucking title last Friday
In what must have been acutely embarrassing for shuckers from the east and west coasts, the final round of the Canadian Oyster...
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We called the 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to scope out their experience—and availability
Toronto restaurants are firmly in the grip of Summerlicious , which continues to this Sunday, so we decided to find out how the...
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11 best bets for Summerlicious 2011: our chief critic Chris Nuttall-Smith makes his picks
Now in its ninth season, the city-run ’Licious phenomenon (there are both summer and winter incarnations, in case you’ve been...
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Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s favourites for the Financial District
Power lunchers and after-work diners are the bread and butter of Summerlicious. Here, 22 Toronto Life picks for where to...
Weekend Luminato picks: Incendies, 1000 Tastes, One Thousand and One Nights and more
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes until...
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With Sausage Partners, Kyle Deming plans to contribute yet another chef-run fine food shop to the Leslieville strip
First there was the Leslieville Cheese Market , then the Foodist Market , then Hooked , and now Sausage Partners . Leslieville is...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Few subjects are as divisive among Toronto diners and industry people as the merits of Summer- and Winterlicious. While the...
Today in Toronto: Seafood for Thought
Seafood for Thought: Ted Corrado (C5), Patrick McMurray (Starfish), Alida Solomon (Tutti Matti) and other city chefs prepare...
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Best new restaurants 2010: James Chatto names five honourable mentions
Toronto Life 's annual ranking of the city's 10 best new restaurants is in our April issue, on newsstands now. Despite the...
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Starfish restaurant is serving rare species of abalone
Toronto restaurateur and champion oyster shucker Patrick McMurray has tracked down a sustainable source of extremely rare...
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Just Opened: Ceili Cottage
“We did this totally back-asswards,” says Patrick McMurray of Ceili Cottage , the Irish pub he opened in Leslieville, and the...
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Chefs make better lovers, threatening T.O.’s culinary superiority, cell phone credit cards
• Could this be the end of the Toronto-Montreal axis of culinary superiority? We doubt it, but a new initiative between the...
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Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
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BYOB: Toronto restaurants drop corkage fees
Along with prix-fixe menus and pink slip parties (we’re looking at you, Globe ), reduced corkage fees have become a popular...
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Cheese Boutique partners with top chefs for indie food fest
The Cheese Boutique was abuzz with food enthusiasts last weekend for the launch of its annual Festival of Chefs . Now in its sixth...
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Starfish’s Shucker Paddy brings some more Irish to the east end
Leslieville must have the luck of the Irish. The east-end neighbourhood will be home to two new Irish pubs this spring: The Roy...
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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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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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“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