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The 20 best reasons to brunch in Toronto right now
If you’re going to line up for a mid-morning meal, make it one of these
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Where the stars ate during TIFF 2016
Turns out poke is pretty popular with celebs, too
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Macho Radio Bar, a new Tex-Mex joint with arcade games and a giant patio
Also: frozen margaritas, cocktails by the pitcher and cornbread French toast made with Pop Rocks
Culture
Ross Petty’s last hurrah, a Tanya Tagaq concert and nine other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 30
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Culture
TIFF 2014 Insider’s Guide: Where to Eat, Drink and Party
A highly discerning look at the festival’s hottest hot spots The Chase 10 Temperance St., 647-348-7000 The glitzy surf-and-turf...
Food & Drink
Recipe: goat cheese panna cotta from Toca chef Gihen Zitouni
PREP TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Serves 10 PANNA COTTA 1 vanilla bean 2 cups whipping...
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Chef’s Choice: Gihen Zitouni of TOCA 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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Prep School: Toca chef Gihen Zitouni’s savoury ways with saturn peaches
Toca chef Gihen Zitouni dishes up three savoury takes on her favourite late-summer fruit: the spectacularly sweet, pug-nosed...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I confront parents who bring a wailing newborn to an upscale restaurant?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I went to Toca at the Ritz-Carlton for our anniversary dinner. Around 9 p.m., a newborn-toting...
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Where to eat and drink near the 2012 Grey Cup
With 52,000 rabid and Stamps fans crowding the streets around the Rogers Centre on Sunday, you need a game plan for pre- and...
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Toca relaunches with a new head chef and a new menu (and without Tom Brodi)
The Ritz-Carlton Toronto announced yesterday that Montreal-born and European-trained Gihen Zitouni is the new chef de cuisine at...
Culture
SPOTTED: Zac Efron makes one fan’s day at the Ritz-Carlton
Zac Efron’ s mission at this year’s TIFF: shed his candy-sweet image as a non-threatening object of tweenage affection ( hence...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
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Eastern Promises: hearty, meaty, carb-heavy Eastern European food is Toronto’s next big comfort cuisine
In the ’60s, Toronto had a bustling Eastern European food scene. Polish, Hungarian and German immigrants opened up humble cafés...
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Tom Brodi leaves TOCA by Tom Brodi
TOCA by Tom Brodi, the restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton, is in the midst of a byline change after Brodi announced his departure from...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 7: modernist warfare
We’ve often noted that the dishes on Top Chef Canada are a good deal simpler than the fare on the show’s...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top 16 cocktail lounges, dives and speakeasies
CHECK OUT ALL 16 COCKTAIL PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST ROOFTOP TIPPLES | CLASSIEST DRINKS IN A DIVE | BEST DRINKS AFTER A 12-HOUR DAY |...
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Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a luxe take on a classic sandwich at a new King West TIFF hub
This Thursday marks the start of TIFF, with its usual flurry of stars. Celeb hunters hoping to avoid the red carpet crush should...
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Best of the City 2011: Five top spots for a delicious drink
Rooftop drink Cocktail class Ice Blood orange margarita Wine by the glass The Roof Lounge 4 Avenue Rd., 416-925-1234 The Park...
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Bringing Sexy Back: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Aria and Toca
After three years of restaurant restraint, Aria and Toca, two unabashedly flashy new spots, are giving diners a reason to get...
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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
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Introducing: Toca, refined Canadiana at the Ritz-Carlton
Back in October, we reported that chef Tom Brodi (formerly of Canoe , North 44 and Gramercy Tavern in New York, under Tom...
Real Estate News
Introducing: the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto’s newest five-star hotel
The glamorous new Ritz-Carlton Toronto is open for business, nearly five years after its groundbreaking in November 2006. The...
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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
Deep Dives
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative