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Whisky
Food & Drink
Super fizzy and ice cold, highballs are an exercise in simplicity
Featuring spirit ideas and bar recommendations for the city’s most understated sippers
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Sort-of Secret: Comma, a Korean restaurant on Queen West serving raw marinated crab
And pairing it with scotch whisky
TL Insider
What went down at TL Insider’s whisky and food pairing at Stock T.C
The unique tasting menu was inspired by The Glenlivet 14-Year-Old
Created for
The Glenlivet
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The best bottles of Irish whiskey at the LCBO
Eleven great buys just in time for St. Patrick's Day
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Boxcar Social is more than a café. It’s a shrine to scotch whisky
Owners of the coffee-and-booze bar are cracking the fusty world of single malts wide open
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Globe-Trotting Whiskies: fermented grain mashes from everywhere but Scotland
Everyone knows that Scotland produces some of the best whisky on the planet, but the British isle isn’t the only country making...
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Today in Toronto: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Die Fledermaus and more
Anne-Sophie Mutter Known as much for her commitment to contemporary music as for her haute couture sleeveless gowns (they free her...
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Why whiskey could be the new bacon (parental discretion advised)
Remember your last bourbon sour? Well, we hope you savoured it, because the surge of brown spirit–based drinks might well be on...
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Introducing: SpiritHouse, King West’s new home for cocktail nerds
SpiritHouse, which opened last week, aims to bring a little cocktail cred to King West, a neighbourhood that’s often better...
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Introducing: The Saint, Ossington’s long-awaited and oft-delayed contemporary tavern
When we first told you about The Saint back in 2009, we said it would open in April—and it will, albeit three years later than...
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Still Waters now selling small-batch vodka out of its Concord distillery (with whisky on the way in a few years)
Every now and then, a lovely little crack opens up in Ontario’s booze monopoly: a brewpub here, a wine kiosk inside a grocery...
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Introducing: The Ace, a classic Roncesvalles diner reborn
For almost two decades, the Ace Chinese Restaurant on Roncesvalles has been shuttered. This spring, however, Maggie Ruhl (co-owner...
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Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from runway panache to butternut squash
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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Whisky in a can: what will they think of next?
It’s been 76 years since the humble metal can made its debut as a beer receptacle— today marks the anniversary...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
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The world’s best whisky, Circa on brink of bankruptcy, the first lab-grown pork
• Since before Circa even opened in 2007, club watchers wondered endlessly if Peter Gatien' s enormous party palace could...
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Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano go spatula to spatula in Liberty Village booze-off
Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is staging a battle (Crown) royal tomorrow. House chef Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano (of Far Niente...
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Private School Guide
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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