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The Top Chef Canada exit interview: episode 4, the offal truth
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
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Introducing: Actinolite, one couple’s labour of love on a quiet stretch of Ossington
Nearly six years in the making, the long-awaited Actinolite opened last week on a quiet strip of Ossington at Hallam, just south...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: something offal
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada seemed perfectly calibrated to appeal to the foodie audience, from the chef skills...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
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Culture
The Top Chef Canada exit interview: episode 3, death by rendering
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: the craving games
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada accomplished a couple of rare feats: it brought last season’s host Thea Andrews onto...
Culture
The Top Chef Canada exit interview: episode 2, chopped and skewered
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or rather, after their boot-getting...
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Introducing: Bestellen, the new College West meat den from Top Chef Canada’s Rob Rossi
The most recent in a slew of west-end spots run by young restaurateurs capitalizing on the affordable rent, Bestellen has finally...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 2: hokey doke
The original U.S. version of Top Chef tries to maintain a steely cool tone with the chefs run ragged and constantly at each...
Culture
The Top Chef Canada exit interview: episode 1, the case of the missing dumpling
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or rather, after their boot-getting...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 1: and we’re baaaaaack
Let’s face it: season one of Top Chef Canada wasn’t perfect. Some people complained that the cooking lacked...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 12 to 18
Monday, March 12 Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16 Saturday, March 17 Sunday, March 18
Culture
The Toronto Top Chef Canada contestants go through the motions for us at a mock quickfire
Season two of Top Chef Canada premieres this Monday, and to celebrate, Food Network Canada held a mock quickfire challenge at...
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Rob Rossi’s Bestellen to open, finally, on Friday
It’s been a long road. Rob Rossi, the Top Chef Canada season one finalist, first announced he was leaving his gig as Mercatto’...
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Top Chef Canada’s Dustin Gallagher to leave Grace after four years
Dustin Gallagher, the adorably smiley chef who narrowly missed the finals on season one of Top Chef Canada, is moving on after...
Food & Drink
Forgot to make a Valentine’s Day reservation? Here are 10 restaurants that still have space
Hoping to take your sweetheart to Splendido, Scarpetta or Auberge du Pommier for Valentine’s Day? Well sorry, it’s too...
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Top Chef Canada’s Carl Heinrich leaves Marben for “new project”
In time-honoured Top Chef Canada tradition, chefs have already started leaving their pre-competition gigs—and this time, it’s...
Culture
Top Chef Canada reveals the rather stacked list of guest judges for season two
Remember last year when Chris Cosentino, one of the pioneers of the offal revival, visited Toronto for undisclosed reasons and...
Culture
Top Chef Canada season two contestants announced; here are your six Toronto chefs
With the sophomore season of Top Chef Canada set to premiere on March 12, Food Network Canada has finally introduced the 16 chefs...
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Top Chef Canada’s Lisa Ray gets engaged in Napa Valley (proving, once again, that wine + diamonds = romance)
Top Chef Canada host, actress and beautiful person Lisa Ray took to Twitter this week to announce her engagement to her consultant...
Food & Drink
Steve Gonzalez to fill in at Niagara Street Café as owner Anton Potvin readies it for sale
Last week we reported that Nick Liu is leaving Niagara Street Café to open his own place, an Asian brasserie. As it turns...
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Grant Van Gameren teams up with Top Chef Canada’s Connie DeSousa for Calgary pop-up
Grant Van Gameren, former chef and owner of The Black Hoof and currently the chef at Enoteca Sociale, has teamed up with Connie...
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Under the Bajan sun, Mark McEwan drops a few hints about season two of Top Chef Canada
(Video: Si Si Penaloza) At the Barbados Food and Wine and Rum Festival in November, Canada was represented by Toronto chefs Mark...
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Horsemeat poised to make a comeback in the U.S.
Top Chef Canada made headlines (and alienated horse lovers everywhere) earlier this year when it featured horsemeat during a...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“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