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Best of the City 2013: smoky shrimp tacos that pack more punch than pricey competitors
The Dundas West fish shack feels like a beachside concession stand—one filled with Bellwoods bocce ballers instead of...
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Mexican pop-up Fonda Lola gets a permanent home on Queen West
The recipe for the modern Mexican eatery has never been simpler: tacos + pop-up = permanent digs. Fonda Lola, which popped up this...
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Introducing: El Catrin, the Distillery District’s new Mexican restaurant
Name: El Catrin Destileria Neighbourhood: Distillery District Contact info: 18 Tank House...
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Introducing: Playa Cabana Hacienda, the third location of the trendy taqueria
Name: Playa Cabana Hacienda Neighbourhood: The Annex Contact Info: 14 Dupont St., 647-352-6030, www.playacabana.ca/...
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Parkdale taqueria Grand Electric is now doing takeout
Grand Electric fans can scarf their pork tinga tacos and squid hoagies without enduring the hours-long waits and blaring ‘90s...
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Recipe: cochinita pibil tacos from La Carnita
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 32 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 4 hours Serves 5 to 10 COCHINITA PIBIL TACOS 100 g achiote paste 10...
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Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop
Name: Seven Lives Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 69 Kensington Ave., sevenlives.ca, @SevenLivesTO Owner and chef:...
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Playa Cabana is opening a third location in May
Not content with merely launching The Junction’s buzziest new spot, Playa Cabana owner Dave Sidhu is opening a third location of...
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Seven Lives is opening a standalone taqueria in Kensington Market
Seven Lives, the popular SoCal- and Tijuana-style taco stall that operates out of El Gordo Fine Foods on Augusta, is graduating to...
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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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GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
KFC, the culinary innovator that launched the infamous Double Down in 2010, introduced the Kentucky Chicken Rice to Japan this...
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Introducing: Playa Cabana Cantina, the Junction’s kitschy new taco bar
Dave Sidhu’ s Playa Cabana Cantina, which opened late last month in the Junction, is Toronto’s latest taco-and-tequila...
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Grand Electric now open for lunch on weekends
Shrewdly avoiding the use of the word “brunch,” Grand Electric, the wildly popular Parkdale taco emporium, announced earlier...
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Introducing: Rebozos on College, a new downtown location for one of the city’s best taco joints
Seven years ago, before tacos had become all-but-inescapable in Toronto, Mexico City native Indalecio Marroquin opened Rebozos, a...
Culture
TIFF PARTY: The festival’s opening-night party featured tacos (but no dark liquor) and a venue change
What could be more Canadian than Canada’s biggest film event hosting its opening party at a hockey arena? We guess TIFF...
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Introducing: La Carnita, the bricks-and-mortar incarnation of the pop-up taco sensation
Last July we introduced you to La Carnita, the city’s first pop-up taco stand. It was also, of course, a cheeky experiment by...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the aromatic pozole at Tacos El Asador
Although the city is currently in the grips of a full-blown taco mania, Tacos El Asador gives Torontonians reasons to celebrate...
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Introducing: Buster’s Sea Cove, Toronto’s first seafood-focused food truck
With lobster rolls seemingly showing up everywhere this spring, the timing couldn’t be better for the city’s first seafood...
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How Adrienne Clarkson would spend a perfect Saturday in the Annex
I’ve lived within a mile radius of Bloor and Avenue since I came to Toronto in 1956 to attend U of T. My husband, John Ralston...
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Introducing: Stack, uptown’s new barbecue restaurant (complete with a huge smoker)
“Anybody can do a good burger,” says Todd Savage , co-owner of Stack , uptown’s answer to Barque. “But being the pit...
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It’s all over folks: T.G.I. Friday’s starts serving Korean tacos
The trend that started out in the food trucks of California and spread like hot gochujang to Toronto restaurants like...
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La Carnita to quit its wandering ways and open a permanent shop on College Street
La Carnita, the wildly popular roving taco stand, has finally found a spot to settle down, according to a post by Corey Mintz on...
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Introducing: Toucan Taco Bar, Riverside’s new Mexican joint
“People in this city love burritos,” says Richard Henry, owner of Riverside’s new Toucan Taco Bar. Henry, the owner of two...
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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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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