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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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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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