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What’s on the menu at Piano Piano, Victor Barry’s new Italian restaurant
With a menu chock full of classics like veal parm and wood-fired pizza
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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Fifteen blasphemous brunch dishes that put boring eggs Benny to shame
In this city, brunching has become a competitive sport: groggy early birds who show up even before restaurants open snag prime...
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Top Five: the best brunch destinations in Toronto
The very best of the Sunday bunch At Bar Buca, pictured above, chef Rob Gentile mixes fresh pig’s blood into the batter for his...
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Top Five: Toronto’s best rum cocktails
Five innovative takes on the classic pirate’s grog At the County General, bartender Jeff Carroll creates a tart, fruity punch...
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McPretenders: seven Toronto takes on the mighty Big Mac
Toronto’s obsession with fancy fast food isn’t new, but it's growing. As the city's snack bars multiply, so too do the options...
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Six ways with rum, from The County General’s Jeff Carroll
The pirate’s grog is making a comeback. Here, County General bartender Jeff Carroll concocts his favourite rum cocktails, with...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: Late-Night Dining
We’re dining around the clock and the options for a midnight feast are suddenly excellent At some point over the past...
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Trend Watch: Is Toronto seeing the slow death of the destination restaurant?
When Scott and Lindsay Selland announced that they were turning Acadia, their lowcountry kitchen on Clinton Street, into a...
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Introducing: The County Cocktail, the Queen West diner’s new Riverdale café and snack bar
Name: The County Cocktail and Snack Bar Contact Info: 798 Queen St. E., 416-781-4743, thecountygeneral.ca/cocktail...
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New Year’s Eve Dinners: eight delicious ways to ring in 2014
The key to a successful New Year’s Eve: making a firm plan and sticking to it. Scoring a great reservation ensures that part of...
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The County General is expanding to both Riverdale and Bloorcourt
Last week, we reported that Victor Barry and Carlo Catallo, the power-duo behind Harbord restaurant Splendido and its casual Queen...
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Splendido owners Victor Barry and Carlo Catallo are breaking up
While other Toronto restaurateurs are forging new partnerships, Victor Barry and Carlo Catallo, co-owners of Splendido and Queen...
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Must-Try: The County General’s flash-frozen ice cream sundae for two
Part dessert, part chem-lab demonstration, The County General’s Kitchen Sink sundae captures the drama of retro flambéed...
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The Binge List: top 20 Toronto sandwiches
Not so long ago, Toronto was a white-bread city. That was before chefs started baking Danish rye, sous-viding bacon and otherwise...
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County General chef Garth Legree decamps for Little Anthony’s
Garth Legree, the Splendido alum who helped open The County General in 2011, has been hired as head chef at Little...
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Trend We Love: wait list–only restaurants that are now taking reservations
No one likes spending hours in the cold waiting for a table at a hot new restaurant. But ever since The Black Hoof opened in...
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The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the just-greasy-enough fried chicken thigh sandwich at The County General
Greasy southern comfort food has been surging in popularity for a few years now, but it’s always difficult contemplating a...
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Nuit Mange: where to eat in the middle of the night during Nuit Blanche 2012
Nuit Blanche opens on Saturday night at 7:03 p.m. (see our full guide ), and with an entire night of roaming Toronto’s...
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Best of the City 2012: the top 10 places to go and things to do for a good time in Toronto
Pinball Café 1662 Queen St. W., 416-402-7932 In an era where almost every amusement has been shrunk to fit on a smart phone, this...
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Emergency Lunch Pick: County General pork buns in a well-lit alleyway
Hungry for pork buns, but not willing to wait for Momofuku to get here already? Like urban exploration? Like the idea of guerilla...
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Our top six picks for Ontario Craft Beer Week
The third annual Ontario Craft Beer Week kicks off on Father’s Day (i.e., this Sunday) with 29 breweries participating in 29...
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The Stop Night Market fundraiser to take over Honest Ed’s Alley
Even if scores of buzzing foodies crowding into the narrow alleyway at Honest Ed’s is not your idea of a fun night out, you...
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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