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“I’m hand-picking each vendor. There will be no A-list chefs here”: A Q&A with Suresh Doss about bringing Smorgasburg to Toronto
The new weekly food fest kicks off July 23 on the waterfront
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Toronto food trucker Zane Caplansky: “People who go in parks are unemployed people”
— Zane Caplansky , the outspoken deli owner and food trucker, explaining to the Star why last summer's attempt to turn Toronto...
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Coming up: a Spanish tapas fest from the organizers of Slurp and Yum Cha
Impeccable timing is an important skill for a food-festival organizer. Suresh Doss and Frank Kocis have it down pat: they timed...
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Love dim sum? There’s a food festival for that
Yum Cha! is the latest expression of Toronto’s newest up-and-coming dining trend, made popular by chefs like Susur Lee and...
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Zagat launches a Toronto-centric online restaurant guide
Earlier this year, American mega-blog Eater stretched its cyber-tentacles northward to take on the Toronto dining scene. Now...
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Slurp Noodlefest moves to 99 Sudbury for its second—and final—edition
After a sold-out run at The Great Hall in March, Slurp Noodlefest is returning for a sequel on April 2o at 99 Sudbury. This...
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Gallery: 8 inventive takes on pho, ramen and other noodle dishes at Slurp Noodlefest
The city’s hard-core ramen fixation has been going strong for about a year now, but it was an earlier Toronto noodle...
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Behind the Pass: a daylong stage with El Gastrónomo Vagabundo, the GTA’s food truck pioneer
Earlier this year we sent regular Dish contributor Renée Suen to complete a one-day culinary stage at fine dining institution...
Culture
VIDEO: watch the crowd go wild at a Top Chef Canada viewing party hosted by the winner
(Video: Suresh Doss) Last night, we found ourselves at an open viewing party hosted at The Sister with the winner of this year’s...
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Street Food Block Party recap: a night of food trucks, lobster rolls and very enthusiastic eaters
In a line that snaked around the Evergreen Brick Works, well over 3,000 street food enthusiasts waited patiently for the first...
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Terroir 2012 recap: what we saw, heard and ate at the big annual food industry meet-up
Last week, 500 members or so of Canada’s food and hospitality industry gathered for Terroir VI at the newly renovated Arcadian...
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Five things we learned about Toronto’s street food scene from the Globe’s profile of Suresh Doss
On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a profile of Suresh Doss, the 34-year-old computer systems engineer and publisher of Spotlight...
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The Toronto Street Food Project seeks to cut some city hall red tape
The last year or so has seen a relative flourishing in Toronto’s once-moribund street food scene. But the barrier to entry for...
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And the survey says... Torontonians want more street food
While it’s always nice to get a little empirical support, the results of a new survey conducted by the Toronto Street Food...
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Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
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Truck-off: why Calgary’s food truck program works and Toronto’s doesn’t
Somehow, inventive, high-quality food served out of a truck has become one of the hottest food trends across North America over...
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Dîner en blanc, Toronto’s other white meet
About 400 sartorial albinos descended on the Distillery District yesterday for Toronto’s first Dîner en Blanc (apparently...
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Food Truck Eats to pull an all-nighter for round three
Food Truck Eats has proven itself a hugely popular new addition to Toronto’s street food scene (despite a setback earlier this...
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Today’s mini Food Truck Eats: Cava’s Chris McDonald and Doug Penfold join El Gastrónomo Vagabundo
UPDATE: Organizer Suresh Doss has just tweeted that today’s event was just shut down part way through service. El Gastrónomo...
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Mini Food Truck Eats today to feature El Gastrónomo Vagabundo and Francisco Alejandri of Agave y Aguacate
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We stopped by the inaugural Food Truck Eats and found a revolution in the making
Saturday marked the inaugural staging of Food Truck Eats , a street food event organized by Suresh Doss , publisher of Spotlight...
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The Long Weekender: 9 to 5, Food Truck Eats and six other ways to spend your Canada Day/Pride weekend
1. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL The ’80s are so hot right now. Ripped skinnies, jelly shoes and Chuck Taylors are all in, samples and...
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New summer food truck event fuels hopes for a Toronto street food revolution
Steeltown might have beaten us to the food truck race, but three special events starting this summer are laying the groundwork for...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
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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“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