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Flavour of the Month: Toronto’s 10 best meatballs
Toronto chefs are making meatballs in every variation known to humankind. Here, 10 spectacular, sloppy spheres. See all ten...
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Some of the tastes—and sights—at last weekend’s 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
Luminato’ s always-popular 1,000 Tastes of Toronto food festival returned to the Distillery over the weekend, heading back to...
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Luminato announces lineup for 2012 edition of 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
On Friday, Luminato announced the full list of restaurants, vendors and food shops participating in its annual 1,000 Tastes of...
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Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s favourites for the Financial District
Power lunchers and after-work diners are the bread and butter of Summerlicious. Here, 22 Toronto Life picks for where to...
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Introducing: The Ballroom, the downtown bowling alley with UFC and gourmet chicken wings
Until recently, Bathurst Bowlerama —site of kids’ parties and seniors’ leagues—has been the only option for downtowners...
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The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
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When it comes to making restaurant reservations, is OpenTable a friend or foe?
From a customer’s perspective, OpenTable might seem like the perfect dovetailing of the Internet and dining: restaurant...
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Former Vertical chef Tawfik Shehata brings locavorism to new downtown bowling alley
Chef Tawfik Shehata was supposed to be taking it easy after he threw in the apron at Vertical , but the ambitious owners of The...
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Tawfik Shehata is out at Vertical
After four-and-a-half years, the mastermind behind Vertical ’s Mediterranean-infused menu, Tawfik Shehata , is now a culinary...
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2,000 chefs weigh in on the top restaurant trend of 2010
Toronto is not always on the ball when it comes to eating and drinking trends (we’ve only just climbed on the speakeasy...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Vertical
This financial district mainstay keeps the food fresh and the patio busy The place: Vertical's lofty canopy-covered terrace rises...
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The great scapes: five ways that Toronto chefs are using garlic shoots
For the past few weeks, garlic scapes have been cropping up on menus throughout the city. An early summer treat, these shoots are...
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Marijuana and haute cuisine: Toronto chefs on how some top kitchens are going to pot
The correlation between marijuana and the munchies is no secret, but a New York Times article that went viral a few weeks ago is...
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The Path Guide: 24 spots worth getting lost for
Even those who were born and raised in Toronto have a hard time navigating the city’s underground labyrinth, with its dead...
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Five 2010 trends to watch: we ask Jamie Kennedy, Anthony Walsh, David Lee and other chefs what to look for in the coming year
It’s no secret that 2009 was rough for restaurants—“It’s a year a lot of restaurateurs are happy to see go,” says C5...
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Riding the gravy train: Smoke’s Poutinerie plans new locations and a poutine truck
Fries, curds and gravy—three simple ingredients that, when combined, create a dish as Canadian as hockey. Toronto’s love...
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Stop for Food, the summer’s other prix fixe festival, is underway
On the heels of yet another whine-infused Summerlicious (with the garbage strike adding fodder to the usual grumblings), Stop for...
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BYOB: Toronto restaurants drop corkage fees
Along with prix-fixe menus and pink slip parties (we’re looking at you, Globe ), reduced corkage fees have become a popular...
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Loss of appetite: It’s a double whammy for restaurants as their Bay Street backers go broke
There’s no question that investing in a restaurant is a high-risk venture. That said, many of the city’s swankiest downtown...
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Someone’s in the kitchen with Twitter: The inescapable Web tool is becoming the next frontier of foodie news
Almost overnight, Twitter is everywhere. Celebrities and CEOs, moms and musicians, politicians and priests are all scrambling to...
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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
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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
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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?
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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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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
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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