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Restaurant staff are overworked and underpaid
Stress, infighting and employee retention are huge problems
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Restaurants aren’t thriving—they’re barely surviving
Rents are astronomical, food costs are higher than ever and profit margins are razor thin
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Toronto restaurants and gourmet grocers selling Thanksgiving dinner for takeout or delivery
Get your turkey to go this year
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Backyard BBQ: How Barque’s David Neinstein makes his crispy, crunchy dry-rubbed chicken wings
Follow along at home
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What’s on the menu at Bar*Q, Barque Restaurant’s new burger joint on Roncesvalles
We’ll give you three guesses
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11 extraordinary family-style feasts to fill up on this Family Day
Start your own tradition of not doing dishes
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of David Neinstein, the pitmaster and co-owner of Barque BBQ
A few of the things it's stocked with: salt, moonshine and a whole lotta meat
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
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12 of Toronto’s wackiest flapjack stacks just in time for Pancake Tuesday
You'll flip over these flapjacks
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Introducing: WindUp Restaurant, a Caribbean spot on College from Barque alumni
Name: WindUp Restaurant Neighbourhood: University The Food: “This is a Toronto version of a Caribbean restaurant,” explains...
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Where can you still score a table for two on Valentine’s Day? These places. (But hurry.)
No Valentine's Day reservations? Don't break out that that fail-safe bolognese recipe just yet. We called around to places that...
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Top Five: Toronto’s best brunch spots
Where to go for the city’s most hedonistic breakfast feasts Sunday-morning reservations are filled far in advance. The crowds...
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Top Five: The best sandwiches in Toronto
Not so long ago, Toronto’s sandwich scene was dominated by standard Reubens and triple-decker turkey clubs. Today, chefs are...
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Recipe: Barque’s belt-busting flapjack tower of pulled barbecue duck meat, chèvre and blueberry compote
PREP TIME: 35 minutes COOK TIME: 39 minutes SMOKE TIME: 12 hours or ROAST TIME: 2 hours Serves 4 DUCK PANCAKES 2 whole duck legs...
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The Binge List: top 20 Toronto sandwiches
Not so long ago, Toronto was a white-bread city. That was before chefs started baking Danish rye, sous-viding bacon and otherwise...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 19 to November 25
Tuesday November 20 Wednesday November 21 Thursday November 22 Friday November 23 Saturday November 24 Sunday November 25...
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Iron Chefs: how the fine dining institution Splendido creates culinary superstars
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 25 to July 1
Monday, June 25 Tuesday, June 26 Wednesday, June 27 Thursday, June 28 Friday, June 29 Saturday, June 30 Sunday, July 1 Farmers’...
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How Keriwa chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe would spend a perfect Saturday on Roncesvalles
I work on Saturdays, but my sous chefs hold down brunch so I can spend the day with my family and come in for dinner service. We...
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David Neinstein, the pitmaster of Roncesvalles smokehouse Barque, names his favourite foodie haunts
(Image: John Cullen)
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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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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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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
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Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
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Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
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Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
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The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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