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The Cheese Boutique
Food & Drink
The Cheese Boutique is throwing a CNE-style street party next month
Complete with bouncy castles, fireworks and lots of food
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Real Weddings: Inside a wintry celebration at Prime Seafood Palace
Featuring a walk in the snow, a cheese-wheel cake and a cameo by Matty Matheson
City News
Toronto’s first family of cheese
The Pristine family own the iconic Cheese Boutique, and they have big plans for the near future
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best fromageries
Including an emporium with its own cheese cave and a place that does double duty as a wine bar
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Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants and stores selling boxes filled with everything you need for a backyard barbecue
The only thing you need to provide is the grill
Food & Drink
Cheese Boutique’s food truck is hosting Toronto’s top chefs for parking lot pop-ups
If you park it, they will come
Food & Drink
A breakdown of Toronto-based grocery delivery services
How to get everything from local produce to freshly baked croissants delivered to your doorstep
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Food & Drink
Toronto stores and restaurants that deliver to cottage country
Including Cheese Boutique, La Palma and Barberian's Butcher Shop
Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: How Cheese Boutique owner Afrim Pristine makes his not-too-saucy stromboli
Follow along at home
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their go-to neighbourhood restaurants and all-time favourite dishes
Spoiler alert: Edulis is pretty popular
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Amano and Union Chicken chef Michael Angeloni
A few of the things it's stocked with: Pasta, pierogies, instant noodles and lots of beer
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Prince Edward County winemaker Norman Hardie
A few of the things it's stocked with: Marmite, maple syrup, and a whole lotta meat
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Sash Simpson, the executive chef of North 44
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: frozen pierogies, instant noodles and crap ton of caviar
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Charlie’s Burgers founder Franco Stalteri
A few of the things it's stocked with: foie gras, gelato and a whole bunch of bubbly
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of One’s pastry chef and chef de cuisine
A few things their kitchen is stocked with: champagne, homemade Jamaican patties and a ham pillow
Food & Drink
Say cheese: Toronto heavyweights Afrim Pristine and Mark McEwan are teaming up
Praise cheeses!
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best doughnuts right now
Our artery-exploding ranking of the city’s best doughnuts, crullers and custard-filled confections
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of chef and restaurateur Grant van Gameren
A few of the things it's stocked with: meat, canned fish and lots of mescal
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Inside the kitchen of the Tempered Room’s pastry chef Bertrand Alépée
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, candy, coconut bacon and a bunch of butter
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Café Boulud chef de cuisine Sylvain Assié
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, charcuterie, truffles, foie gras and champagne
Food & Drink
10 tasty Valentine’s Day gifts by the dozen that are way better than roses
Because flowers are nice—but you can't eat them
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Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh
Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce
Food & Drink
These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
Deep Dives
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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