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Top Chef Canada
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Eden Grinshpan, host of
Top Chef Canada
Stocked with soup croutons, Fudgsicles and tons of tahini
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Style
What
Top Chef Canada
host Eden Grinshpan is coveting in home decor
Featuring stylish spice mills, a ’70s-inspired sofa and a sexy walnut-stained nightstand
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Inside the kitchen of new
Top Chef Canada
judge Chris Nuttall-Smith
A few of the things it's stocked with: Lay's chips, bean-and-cheese burritos and ground-up cricket larvae
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Inside the kitchen of Valdez chef Steve Gonzalez
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: instant noodles, smiley-face hash browns and a whole lotta pigs
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Canada’s first Morimoto is opening on King West
Masaharu Morimoto is officially opening a restaurant in Toronto. Word first got around that something was up in early March, after...
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The List: Ten things Mark McEwan can’t live without
1 | My Grandma Devlin’s egg timer It’s close to 100 years old and was the only thing of my grandmother’s that I really...
Culture
Top Chef Canada
has been cancelled because of audience fatigue
Canadian tele-culinary connoisseurs have a taste for novelty, or at least that seems to be the takeaway from Food Network Canada's...
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Opening Soon: a neighbourhood restaurant on Queen West from
Top Chef Canada’
s Vittorio Colacitti
The Good Son is a soon-to-open restaurant at Queen and Dovercourt from Vittorio Colacitti, a Toronto chef who made the top five on...
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Former Origin chef Steve Gonzalez is opening a new place for Latin American street food on King West
Best known as the beloved class clown on season one of Top Chef Canada, Steve Gonzales, a former chef de cuisine at Claudio...
Culture
Top Chef Canada
recap, episode 4: a little backbone
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada started with some heavy-handed foreshadowing. Sounding downbeat, Vancouver’s Kayla...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada
recap, episode 3: the Boulud touch
Daniel Boulud has gone two for two on Top Chef Canada: both Dale Mackay and Carl Heinrich, the winners of season one and two...
Culture
Top Chef Canada
recap, episode 2: friendly fire
Let’s skip straight to the moral of last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada: in a reality cooking show, hell is other...
Food & Drink
Ryan Gallagher is out as chef at Reds Wine Tavern
Ryan Gallagher has left Reds Wine Tavern after only seven months as executive chef. The former Top Chef Canada contestant, who...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada
recap, episode 1: fresh meat
Once again, Top Chef Canada got an upgrade in the off-season. This year’s grand prize now includes a custom Caesarstone...
Culture
Season three of
Top Chef Canada
airs Monday night
Tonight at 9 p.m., a fresh crop of 16 cheftestants will take to Food Network Canada to vie for the approval of Top Chef Canada...
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Foreign Dumplings brings six kinds of dumpling to the Beer Academy next week
Hot on the heels of last weekend’s Slurp Noodlefest comes another pop-up event whose starting point is a popular Asian...
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Toronto Life Cookbook: Top Chef Canada champ Carl Heinrich’s top 10 ideas for how to dress up a burger
See all ten toppings »
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Top Chef Canada’s Gabriell Cruz is BruDa’s new chef
BruDa, the Little Italy restaurant that took over from Negroni/Carpano, has a new chef: Gabriell Cruz, formerly the sous chef at...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Top Chefs and Bieber power
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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Meet the five Toronto contestants on Top Chef Canada season three
Season three of Top Chef Canada kicks off on March 18, and earlier today Food Network Canada unveiled the slate of 16...
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The Dish Power Rankings: feasting menus and Maple Leafs edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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Holiday Feast Recipe: Deconstructed turkey with stuffing from Richmond Station’s Carl Heinrich
After winning season two of Top Chef Canada, Carl Heinrich became a household name. His new Financial District...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 26 to December 2
Monday November 26 Tuesday November 27 Wednesday November 28 Thursday November 29 Friday November 30 Saturday December 1 Sunday...
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Review: Richmond Station, Carl Heinrich’s new downtown farm-to-table restaurant
At his new farm-to-table restaurant, Carl Heinrich, the 27-year-old chef who won Top Chef Canada, shakes hands with celeb-struck...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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
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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
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
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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