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Read All About It
August 14, 2009 | 10:06 am

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Seth Rogen as Martin Picard, obtaining a perfect peach, America’s most bizarre restaurants

Life's a peach: this year's crop is the best in years (Photo by Bruce Tuten)

Life's a peach: this year's crop is the best in years (Photo by Bruce Tuten)

• The cool, rainy spring that kept tomatoes green has actually been good for the peach crop. The New Jersey Peach Council says this is the best peach season in years. While the Peach Council may be biased, we say bring on the cobblers. [New York Times]

• With the success of Julie and Julia, the National Post is predicting that more foodie flicks are on the way. Brad Frenette wonders why no one’s made a movie about Marie-Antoine Careme, the orphan turned pâtissière who cooked for Napoleon, George IV and Tsar Alexander. Other suggestions: a film about wild chef Martin Picard played by Seth Rogen, and a Daniel Craig rendition of Gordon Ramsay. [National Post]

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Aprons & Icons
July 29, 2009 | 12:38 pm

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Cookbook fracas: Susur Lee, Marc Thuet and other Toronto foodies displeased as Canadians left out of 100 Emerging Culinary Stars

Shut out: Canadian chefs have been left out of COCO

Backcountry bias: COCO: 100 Emerging Culinary Stars Chosen by 10 of the World’s Greatest Chefs snubs Canuck chefs

The country’s top chefs and food writers are outraged that an upcoming book profiling the world’s 100 most promising chefs does not include any Canadians. The 448-page book titled COCO: 100 Emerging Culinary Stars Chosen by 10 of the World’s Greatest Chefs will also contain recipes by these young, non-Canadian chefs. When Toronto writer Shaun Smith learned that there is still one slot left in the book, he promptly started a letter-writing campaign to the COCO’s British publisher, Phaidon, making the case for squeezing in some CanCon.

The letter (full text below) explains how disappointed the signatories are with the list. It’s an impressive collection of names: 24 of Canada’s top chefs and food writers have thrown their support behind Smith’s campaign, including Susur Lee, Jamie Kennedy, Marc Thuet, Anthony Walsh, Guy Rubino, Anne Yarymowich, Lucy Waverman and Toronto Life’s own James Chatto.

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De-licious
July 17, 2009 | 9:11 am

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Final throes: Where to find a table during the last weekend of Summerlicious

Follow the orders of this menu from Mildred's Temple Kitchen and indulge in the last days of Summerlicious (Photo by jbcurio)

The menu at Mildred's Temple Kitchen orders us to indulge (Photo by jbcurio)

The dog days of Summerlicious are here, and with reservations down at top restaurants across the city, many tables are sitting empty at some of the city’s finest spots. This might be the first and last time anyone will be able to walk into North 44 without a reservation, eat for under $50, and walk right out. After the jump, all a hungry diner needs to know about how to nab a last-minute seat at the 10 most popular restaurants from our Best of Summerlicious list.

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Opening
June 11, 2009 | 12:05 pm

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Out of sight: Toronto’s first blind dining restaurant leaves guests in the dark

The interior of the dining room at O. Noire

The dining room at O. Noir

Though it’s been done to death in other cities, the “blind dining” trend is finally coming to Toronto. O. Noir, which already has a location in Montreal, will open June 24 at 620 Church Street, in the basement of the Town Inn Suites. All light will be shut out of the 85-seat dining room, and customers will be waited on by a team of visually impaired servers (in this case recruited by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind).

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June 3, 2009 | 8:45 am

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Anthony Bourdain hates cupcakes, Thuet gets convicted, Fall Out Boy’s underage flub

Anthony Bourdain takes a stand against cupcakes (Photo by Neeta Lind)

Anthony Bourdain takes a stand against cupcakes (Photo by Neeta Lind)

• Chef and author Anthony Bourdain tells the Seattle Times he’s had enough of the cupcake trend, that Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger, and that geoduck is delicious. [Seattle Times]

• Two Burger King restaurants in Tennessee displayed “Global Warming Is Baloney” signs last week, with one outlet’s manager saying that the statement represents the views of BK headquarters. Of course, when the big cheese got wind of the story, the signs were taken down and the company released a statement denying the claim. [Guardian]

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De-licious
May 26, 2009 | 4:00 pm

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Summerlicious restaurants announced

Get those dialing digits ready: the city has released its list of the 150 restaurants participating in the seventh edition of Summerlicious, running July 3 to 19. Price points have increased over last year (as they did for Winterlicious), so expect to pay between $15 and $30 for a three-course lunch and between $25 and $45 for dinner.

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Opening
May 8, 2009 | 12:01 pm

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Goodbye, Bite Me. Hello, Conviction: Marc Thuet’s new restaurant opens tonight, staffed with reformed criminals

Marc Thuet and ?? at their

Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich at Conviction (Photo by Karon Liu)

Two days before the opening of Conviction, chef Marc Thuet’s latest restaurant venture, the dining room has no tables, a fat orange cat is knocking over empty bottles on a scratched coffee table, and the staff is eating Chinese takeout in the gutted kitchen, which has only a deep fryer installed.

“When do you think we’ll get the ovens?” asks Thuet, slouching in the only chair not stacked in the corner of the small dining space.

“Monday or Tuesday,” replies his wife and business partner, Biana Zorich, as she texts a reporter who wants to know what brand of cigarette her husband smokes.

“Fuck off.”

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Opening
May 4, 2009 | 4:09 pm

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Toronto’s man of Conviction: Marc Thuet will open his fourth restaurant this Friday

Top T.O. chef Marc Thuet will be launching a new dining concept this Friday—and it will be staffed by 13 former inmates. Cheekily named Conviction, the restaurant, at the Bite Me! space (609 King Street West), will have seven ex-cons in the kitchen and six running the front-of-house, all under the watchful eye of Thuet’s life and business partner, Biana Zorich. Thuet, who himself has gone through addictions, says in a press release that the restaurant will give the new staff a second chance at life, by providing them with job security and a steady paycheque.

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