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Toronto Underground Market
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Where Toronto Underground Market founder Hassel Aviles eats Latin American food
Her favourite places to get tacos, hot dogs (yes, hot dogs) and fish dishes
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Where Big E’s Hawaiian Grinds chef Erwin Joaquin eats in the burbs
His favourite places to eat dumplings, curry and dessert in First Markham Place
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Say a final farewell to the Toronto Underground Market
Three years ago, before Toronto became one never-ending pop-up street-food fest, the Toronto Underground Market took over the...
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Toronto Underground Market calls it quits (for now)
Like the unfortunate female crab spider, the food festival appears to have been snuffed out by its own prodigious offspring. Last...
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Foie gras Pop Tarts, and seven other intriguing snacks coming to the Toronto Underground Market
Since its genesis in 2010, the Toronto Underground Market, the granddaddy of Toronto food fests, has catapulted dozens of hopeful...
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Toronto Food Trend Report: six things that caught our attention at the Underground Market
On Saturday, the Toronto Underground Market celebrated two years of connecting street food lovers with budding food...
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Toronto Underground Market pop up Hot Bunzz opens a new Midtown shop
The latest TUM startup to transform from a popular market one-off to a permanent bricks-and-mortar version, joining other...
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Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop
Name: Seven Lives Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 69 Kensington Ave., sevenlives.ca, @SevenLivesTO Owner and chef:...
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Fidel Gastro’s Matt Basile takes over Prague European Kitchen’s space on Queen
Matt Basile, the man behind the popular pop-up and food truck Fidel Gastro’s, has moved into 638 Queen Street West, the space...
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The Toronto Underground Market launches Sips and Nibbles, a Valentine’s Day–themed spinoff
The Toronto Underground Market can be a slightly shaggy affair. Participants tend to be outfitted for the weather at the...
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Introducing: Rock Lobster, the new Ossington incarnation of the popular pop-up restaurant
Recently there’s been a slew of Toronto Underground Market vendors graduating to permanent operations. First La Carnita opened...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 17 to 23
Monday, September 17 Tuesday, September 18 Wednesday, September 19 Thursday, September 20 Friday, September 21 Saturday, September...
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Tickets for the first-anniversary, double header edition of the Toronto Underground Market on sale now
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Hassel Aviles put her money where her mouth was and launched the Toronto...
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Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s new food truck, the roving home base of the rebel without a kitchen
Matt Basile launched his Fidel Gastro’s business last year as a roving pop-up operation. Yesterday, for a crowd of 300 or so, he...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
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Psst! Toronto Underground Market tickets are on sale this morning
Still haven’t checked out the Toronto Underground Market? The next edition takes place July 7 at the Evergreen Brick Works, and...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 4 to 10
Monday, June 4 Tuesday, June 5 Wednesday, June 6 Thursday, June 7 Friday, June 8 Saturday, June 9 Sunday, June 10 Farmers’...
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The Stop’s first Beer Garden of 2012 brought out over 200 for Muskoka beer and Indonesian tacos
Despite threatening clouds, over 200 hundred people gathered at Wychwood Barns No. 4 this past Sunday afternoon for this year’s...
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Tickets on sale for June’s Toronto Underground Market
Since these things tend to sell out pretty much instantly (this month’s Street Food Block Party sold out in a few hours), we...
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Street Food Block Party recap: a night of food trucks, lobster rolls and very enthusiastic eaters
In a line that snaked around the Evergreen Brick Works, well over 3,000 street food enthusiasts waited patiently for the first...
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Reason to Love Toronto: because we’re serious about our bake sales
The complaint is so well-worn it’s become rote: Toronto, despite its lively, cosmopolitan dining scene, has an embarrassing...
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Editor’s Letter (May 2012): the city is in the midst of a cultural renaissance—except at city hall
The spectacle at city hall has become a common obsession, even among people who never before cared much about municipal...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 30 to May 6
Monday, April 30 Tuesday, May 1 Wednesday, May 2 Thursday, May 3 Friday, May 4 Saturday, May 5 Sunday, May 6
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Tickets now on sale for the Street Food Block Party
On Saturday, May 5, Food Truck Eats will be teaming up with the Toronto Underground Market to host what they’re calling the...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand