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The Dish Power Rankings
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The Dish Power Rankings: EDM Superstar Edition
In this week’s roundup: Deadmau5 talks Toronto food, and Tim Hortons hits the big-time 1. The Chase The number-one restaurant in...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Shumai and Shawarma Edition
In this week’s roundup: Middle Eastern cuisine dominates, and Sandy Cohen eats dumplings. 1. Luckee It's always a good sign when...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Easter Long Weekend Edition
In this week’s roundup: Everyone loves hummus, and David Chang goes to Hooters. 1. Bar Buca Toronto Life’ s Mark Pupo had nice...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Keep on Truckin’ Edition
In this week’s roundup: food truckers rally, and Susur Lee’s dim-sum shop goes live. 1. Caplansky’s Deli master Zane...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Lost Spring Edition
In this week’s roundup: Tacos go east, and an Oscar-nominated actress dines on King West. 1. The Senator Toronto’s oldest...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Models and Macarons Edition
In this week’s roundup: Models have dance-offs, and the city goes mad for macarons. 1. Lee Models and other style-setters let...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Best New Restaurants Edition
In this week’s roundup: Toronto Life comes out with its yearly roundup of the city’s best spots, and a beloved $10 lunch...
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The Dish Power Rankings: March Break Edition
In this week’s roundup: Bob Blumer eats pork, and a beloved Dundas West bistro says goodbye with a final brunch. 1. Chantecler...
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The Dish Power Rankings: B is for Buzz Edition
In this week’s roundup: buzzy restaurants start with “B,” and Dr. Raymond Stantz eats shellfish. 1. Ici Bistro The week’s...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Yay Canada Edition
In this week’s roundup: Sports bars get patriotically rowdy, and Oprah’s BF eats brunch. 1. The Drake After a fortnight of...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Happy Valentine’s Day Edition
In this week’s roundup: lovers scrounge the city for chocolate, and two major restaurant spin-offs spell delicious things for...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Toronto Poutine Week Edition
In this week’s roundup: Angela Chase eats pizza, and an unassuming burger shop makes the city’s best poutine. 1. Rose and Sons...
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The Dish Power Rankings: The Biebs and The ‘Bowl Edition
In this week’s roundup: Bieber keeps his shirt on, and Toronto restaurants dish out chicken wings, Chinese food and cut-rate...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Organs and Entrails Edition
In this week’s roundup: Stuffed sheep stomachs fly off shelves, and the ongoing mayoral sideshow is great news for at least one...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Winterlicious Kick-Off Edition
In this week’s roundup: The cut-rate food frenzy officially begins, and Aragorn enjoys his meals in fun shapes. 1. Canoe The...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Soups and Subtropical Delusions Edition
In this week’s roundup: soup hits the big time, and Canada’s favourite space oddity eats pizza. 1. Bar Isabel New year, same...
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The Dish (Yearly) Power Rankings: the 10 busiest, buzziest restaurants of 2013
We crunched the numbers on a year’s worth of Weekly Restaurant Power Rankings to separate the one-week wonders from the genuine...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Countdown To Christmas Edition
In this week’s roundup: Turkeys fly off shelves, and everyone (still) loves Bar Isabel. 1. Bar Isabel ( ↑ 5 ) The distinctions...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Cowboys Are The New Tacos Edition
In this week’s roundup: The Distillery gets Christmassy, and a pair of restaurants try to make line-dancing trendy. 1. The P&L...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Taco Takeover (Again) Edition
In this week’s roundup: Tacos continue to rule, and a longstanding beer hall becomes a punch line on Letterman. 1. Barrio...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Waiting For The New Playa Edition
In this week’s roundup: Pearson airport becomes an official foodie destination (again), Toronto’s perennially packed taqueria...
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The Dish Power Rankings: The Week of the Sheik Edition
In this week’s roundup: celebs eat noodles, and a former pro-wrestler takes his love for subs online. 1. Bar Isabel (no change)...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Happy Halloween Edition
In this week’s roundup: the culinary Olympics take Toronto, and an unassuming uptown trattoria tweets its way into...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Happy Birthday Drake Edition
In this week’s roundup: Drake has an awesome birthday cake; Martha Stewart goes to dinner; and three Toronto restaurants are...
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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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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions