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The Burger's Priest
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Elijah’s Automatic Flame Broiled, a fast-casual concept from the founder of the Burger’s Priest
Including soft-serve milkshakes and beef-fat fries
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top 10 burgers, according to a guy who has tried 187 of them, and counting
Not all heroes wear capes
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Takeaway Tales: Is the Burger’s Priest’s bacon double cheeseburger as good at home as in the restaurant?
We're taste-testing popular delivery dishes and evaluating the apps that bring the food to your door
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How the fried chicken sandwich clawed its way to the top of Toronto’s fast-food chain
They’re as ubiquitous in Toronto as delivery vehicles parked in bike lanes
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10 of Toronto’s most hilariously dressed hot dogs
Ranked from "wiener misdemeanor" to "hot diggity!"
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Union Station is getting rotisserie chicken, a Burger’s Priest, and a huge food market
Union Station is set to become a dining destination instead of an afterthought—no offence, Cinnabon. Not only are Mill Street...
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Daniel Radcliffe really likes The Burger’s Priest
At the red-carpet premiere of his new romantic comedy The F Word, which happened last night at the Scotiabank Theatre on Richmond...
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The Burger’s Priest is coming to Mississauga and Guelph
Earlier this summer, The Burger's Priest owner Shant Mardirosian promised that a new outlet would soon be opening in an...
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The Burger’s Priest is set to open two more locations
Good news, west-enders (or bad news, possibly, if being tempted by monstrous stacks of beef, grilled-cheese sandwiches and...
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Chef’s Choice: Lorraine Hawley of Mabel’s Bakery picks her favourite restaurants
Who better to guide a fantasy food tour than a chef? We asked some of the city's top culinary talents to walk us through their...
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Burger’s Priest at Queen and Spadina is now open
The third location of the owner Shant Mardirosian’ s crazy popular griddle-smashed burger chain opened its doors on Saturday to...
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The Burger’s Priest’s third location is opening at Queen and Spadina
Burger’s Priest owner Shant Mardirosian tweeted last summer that he had a west-side location in the works. NOW Magazine is...
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Attention Mississauga burger fans: you’re on the Burger’s Priest’s radar
Burger’s Priest owner Shant Mardirosian was on Insauga.com Radio last week talking burgers in general and the burger scene in...
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Here’s where Anthony Bourdain stopped by during his Toronto layover
Regular Dish readers will know that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s favourite bad-boy chef–turned–professional eater was in town last...
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The Burger’s Priest inks a deal on a third location
On Saturday, Shant Mardirosian, the man behind the crazy-popular Burger’s Priest, tweeted this news about his highly anticipated...
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All-Beef Party: Toronto’s 25 best burgers ranked in order of heart-stopping, messy magnificence
Nine years ago, Mark McEwan scandalized Torontonians with his $35 truffled Bymark burger. That was before words like...
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Hemant Bhagwani, the chef-owner of the Amaya empire, on where he goes to splurge and save
(Image: John Cullen)
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Five Things we learned from the Star about The Burger’s Priest (including what a “Jarge” is)
After the fanatically venerated indie burger joint The Burger’s Priest netted third place in the 2012 Zagat Survey of Toronto...
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Introducing: The Burger’s Priest on Yonge, the much-anticipated second location of Shant Mardirosian’s all-American roadhouse
On the opening night at The Burger’s Priest’ s eagerly anticipated second location at Yonge and Lawrence, owner Shant...
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Thanks to Actual Water, The Burger’s Priest now has its very own hymn
The devotion of The Burger’s Priest fans can be so fanatical that it was only a matter of time before one of them composed a...
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The Burger’s Priest expands northward
The Burger’s Priest, Shant Mardirosian’
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Burger of the Year: how The Burger’s Priest makes its delicious, gut-busting Vatican City
(Image: Christopher Stevenson)
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The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
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American chain Five Guys wades into Toronto’s burger wars
Subway may have just surpassed McDonald’s as the world’s largest food chain, but that doesn’t mean the burger craze is...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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