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Nine would-be food trends, from cold brew coffee to pie-flavoured yogurt, at Canada’s biggest restaurant trade show
What was popular in restaurants across the country last year? Craft beer, locally sourced food, and kale (along with its leafy...
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Trend Watch: Is Toronto seeing the slow death of the destination restaurant?
When Scott and Lindsay Selland announced that they were turning Acadia, their lowcountry kitchen on Clinton Street, into a...
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Food Trend Watch: the 11 top food trends at the 2014 CRFA food show
Each year, the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association hosts a massive trade show. The event is one of the year’s most...
Food & Drink
Trend We Hate: lineups
Ever since the late aughts, when Pizzeria Libretto, The Black Hoof and Guu opened with strict no-reservations policies, lineups...
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Trend We Love/Hate: ever-longer tasting menus
Engaged in a never-ending game of friendly one-upmanship, the city’s chefs started launching ever-more elaborate tasting menus...
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Trend We Love/Hate: the anti-local movement
In this age of conspicuous local consumption, a handful of chefs are racking up the food miles. We’d protest, but our mouths are...
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Trend We Love: ramen, ramen everywhere
Hello, Asian street food, goodbye rustic Italian. Ramen has supplanted spaghetti as the noodle of the moment. Below, our...
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Trend We Love: tableside ceremony
Chefs are perfecting their tableside manner and bringing a bit of ceremony back to dinner. We heartily approve.
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Trend We Hate: hay
Despite its wholesome pastoral associations, hay, with its eau de barnyard flavour and unpleasant chew, is probably better suited...
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Trend We Love/Hate: Toronto’s inflated comfort food economy
We at Toronto Life are avid consumers of upgraded comfort food—but we’re beginning to notice that the prices are climbing in...
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Trend We Hate: the proliferation of “Hogtown”
“Hogtown” has become the go-to restaurant moniker for these pork-mad times. Will the city never live down its despised...
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Trend We Love: freebies with the bill
Nothing takes the sting out of a hefty bill like a plate of treats on the house. Below, four places that soothed our end-of-meal...
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Trend We Love: wine (and sake) served from a tap
There are several good reasons why a restaurant might serve wine on tap: it keeps house wines fresh (and bubblies bubbly), allows...
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Seven food trends at 2013’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Each year, we head over to the annual Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show to get a look at the big new food...
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Trend We Love: wait list–only restaurants that are now taking reservations
No one likes spending hours in the cold waiting for a table at a hot new restaurant. But ever since The Black Hoof opened in...
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Trend We Love: Quail eggs, pickled, smoked, fried, boiled and raw
Quail eggs have two principal virtues that distinguish them from chicken eggs: they’re tiny and they’re cute. They don’t...
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Trend we Love: Philly cheese steak, spotted in low- and middlebrow incarnations
Those who’ve grown weary of sanctimonious locavorism will welcome the sudden ubiquity of the Philly cheese steak on Toronto...
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Trend We Love: Huitlacoche (a.k.a. corn smut), spotted on Mexican and non-Mexican menus alike
Huitlacoche (pronounced weet-la-KOH-chay), a corn fungus that’s popular in Mexican food, has two commonly used English names:...
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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
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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
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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?
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
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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
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?
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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
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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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“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