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Where to Eat Now 2012
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Where to Eat Now 2012
The sprawling dining scene in Toronto is more diverse and promising than ever. This year, a handful of 20-something chefs who...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: Vote on the 10 trends in dining that we love and hate
We picked out ten trends that helped define dining in Toronto in 2012, and pronounced whether we loved them, hated them or had a...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: 10 trends in dining that we love and hate (or have a love-hate relationship with)
See the 10 trends » Vote on the 10 trends » (Images: Illustrations by Joe McKendry)
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Where to Eat Now 2012: five of our favourite sandwiches of the year
This year, a handful of sandwich-centric restaurants tapped into the primitive appeal of meat plus bun. Here, five hearty...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: our five favourite Neapolitan pizzas
With a new pizza place opening nearly every month, the city is now loaded with chewy, blistered, wood-fired pies. Here, our...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: five top renditions of this year’s hot Mexican street food, the tostada
Every chef and his sous found inspiration in Mexican street food this year. Here, five high-piled tostadas that had us ordering...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: the 10 top food trucks in the GTA
This year, a fleet of new trucks raised street food standards in the GTA. Trouble is, they’re always on the move. Here, the top...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 1 Yours Truly
When a chef comes to this city by way of some of the world’s most celebrated kitchens—New York’s Per Se, Copenhagen’s...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 2 Acadia
The cuisine is billed as Acadian—the cooking of South Carolina and Louisiana married to the briny flavours of the...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 3 Aria
Aria offers a much-needed master class in seduction, dazzling us with set dressing before the food even arrives. For...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 4 Keriwa
On the ceiling of Toronto’s only Native Canadian restaurant, dangling feathers bounce to the bass of Motown hits. On the walls:...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 5 Ortolan
Down the street from Bloor West’s notorious House of Lancaster nudie bar, in a scruffy 26-seat hole in the wall filled with...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 6 Barque
There’s no limit to what chef-owner David Neinstein will load into his magnificent smoker: pork shoulder, beef ribs and whole...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 7 F’Amelia
Torontonians will bid themselves into bankruptcy to live in a neighbourhood with a good school, a dog park and a relaxed little...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 8 Modus
Chef Bruce Woods made his name at Centro, that once-great standard-bearer for Italian cuisine in Toronto, before decamping to...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 9 Volos
The slick Greek estiatorio on the northern edge of the Financial District bears no trace of the motherland’s economic...
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 10 Mideastro
The loungey Yorkville room hums with well-to-do regulars enjoying the back-slapping hospitality of owner Leon Goldstein. Chef...
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Best New Restaurants 2012
Ten spots that surprised us, delighted us and made us grateful to live in this restaurant-obsessed city. (Images: Raina and...
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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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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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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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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
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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