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Winterlicious
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for King West and the Financial District
The dining scene in and around the Financial District has seen a lot of changes since last year’s festival, with new restaurants...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for Yorkville and the Annex
Winterlicious is typically pretty generous to the denizens of the Annex and Yorkville, and this year is no exception. Here, our 10...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks west of Bathurst
The Winterlicious restaurants west of Bathurst are a mixed bag, from authentic Mexican at Frida to hipster institutions like The...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks north of St. Clair
The vast area north of St. Clair is well represented in Winterlicious this year. Here, our 14 picks.
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks east of the DVP
This year, like usual, the area east of the DVP hasn’t done too well in Winterlicious. Here, our four picks on the Danforth.
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It’s the (kickoff to the) most Winterlicious time of the year: 2012 prix fixe menus announced today
Get those dialing digits ready: Toronto Special Events has just announced the slate of restaurants for Winterlicious 2012. The...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s the etiquette for tipping with Groupon?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I used a Groupon recently to get my hair done at an expensive Rosedale salon. It saved me 65 per cent. When...
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Introducing: Canoe, the Oliver and Bonacini flagship revamped
After 16 years at the top, Canoe , one of the city’s culinary beacons, closed its doors on New Year’s Day for a...
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The fate of legendary table 26 and other tales from Canoe’s reopening
On Tuesday, we found ourselves sitting at the chef’s rail at Canoe for the second night of the Oliver and Bonacini joint’s...
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A first glimpse inside the renovated Canoe
Last December we reported that Canoe would be closing up shop for a million-dollar facelift. Unlike most construction projects in...
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Get ready, everybody: Winterlicious 2011 starts today and we’ve got you covered
After 17 days of furious jockeying for reservations, Winterlicious —the city’s annual festival of prix-fixe menus, packed...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Few subjects are as divisive among Toronto diners and industry people as the merits of Summer- and Winterlicious. While the...
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The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
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Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and...
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Get those dialling digits ready: Summerlicious restaurants have been announced
It's the day every frugal foodie has been looking forward to since February: the Summerlicious restaurants have been...
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J.P. Challet leaves the Windsor Arms (again) to pick up the pieces at Ici Bistro (again)
Master chef J.P. Challet is leaving the Windsor Arms Hotel ’s Prime just five months into his tenure —and nine years after...
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Six food trends we hate
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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Toronto knock-off of Iron Chef will pit Jamie Kennedy against Ted Corrado
The second annual Stop for Food festival is pretty much a rip-off of Winterlicious and Iron Chef, but since it’s for...
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Greg Couillard’s Spice Room may be closed for good among accusations of bounced cheques, serving without a liquor licence and thousands in unpaid wages
It seems as though every restaurant nightmare is presently playing out in the basement of Hazelton Lanes, where Greg Couillard’s...
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Backlash menus: some Toronto restaurants go rogue during Winterlicious by serving up their own prix fixe
Summer- and Winterlicious are divisive topics among those in the restaurant biz: some enjoy the increased business, while others...
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Trouble stewing at the Spice Room?
It seems like just yesterday that we spoke with Greg Couillard at the Spice Room about his trips to Toronto to prepare special...
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J.P. Challet returns to the Windsor Arms
More than a decade after he reopened the restaurant at the Windsor Arms, French chef J.P. Challet is returning to revamp the...
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Winterlicious reservations start today
Today is the biggest pre-festival day for Winterlicious: reservations are now being taken at the 150 participating...
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The 69 best restaurants of Winterlicious
Starting January 14 (or January 12 with an American Express card), Torontonians can start making reservations for the annual prix...
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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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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