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Bruce Woods
Food & Drink
Chef Bruce Woods cuts ties with his eponymous restaurant
Chefs have become increasingly mobile of late, but it’s rare for one of them to decamp from a restaurant that actually bears his...
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Food & Drink
Must-Try: the voluptuous Muscovy duck from Woods
Food & Drink
Recipe: spaghettini and gooey mozzarella meatballs from Woods chef Bruce Woods
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 55 minutes Serves 4 TOMATO SAUCE 2 cans of plum tomatoes, each 28 oz 2 tbsp olive oil 1 large...
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Review: meticulous dishes and whimsical decor at Woods in St. Lawrence Market
Woods ★★★ 45 Colborne St., 416-214-9918 Chef Bruce Woods, who made his name with precise Italian cooking at power...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Woods, a fancy new restaurant in St. Lawrence Market from the former Modus chef
Name: Woods Neighbourhood: St. Lawrence Market Contact info: 45 Colborne Street, 416-214-9918, woodsrestaurant.ca Owners: Bruce...
Food & Drink
Ex-Modus chef Bruce Woods is opening a new restaurant in Colborne Lane’s former space
Bruce Woods is preparing to open his first restaurant, appropriately named Woods Restaurant, in the space that Colborne Lane...
Food & Drink
Bruce Woods resigns as chef at Modus
Last year, Modus Ristorante launched at King and York, and its refined Italian cuisine quickly earned it a reputation as a Bay...
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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2012: Toronto’s top tacos, brunch, pampering service, pickling classes and more
Splendido 88 Harbord St., 416-929-7788 Even if a diner wheezed up to Splendido’s Harbord Street door in a beat-up...
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 12, because fancy food is back
In the recession-stricken aughties, eating out in Toronto was a humble affair—chefs catered to thrifty diners by opening...
City News
47 outstanding looks from Best Buddies’ Royal Ascot–themed derby event
Britain’s Royal Ascot is one of the biggest social functions of the year for the U.K.’s society set, which is why when we...
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Food & Drink
Centro to celebrate its 25th year with a series of dinners cooked by illustrious alums
It’s only fitting that the birthday bash for a restaurant that describes itself as a spot for “international influential...
Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
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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Weekly Lunch Pick: a refined Italian splurge at Modus Ristorante
At Modus , one of our Best New Restaurants for 2012, executive chef Bruce Woods (Centro, Brassaii) services refined Italian...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: The County General, Modus Ristorante, F’Amelia and Hrvati Bar
One of these things is not like the others: sandwiches, pasta, pizza and pljeskavica at the city’s hottest new restaurants The...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Modus Ristorante, the plush new Financial District spot for upscale Italian
Modus Ristorante, a new restaurant in the Financial District, might serve Italian food, but refreshingly, no one’s anxious to...
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Brassaii gears up for summer with a revamped patio, a new menu—and a new chef
The makeover of King West has been going on for over a decade now, and members of the old guard (relatively speaking) are trying...
Culture
Spotted! Uma Thurman orders off-menu Mexican at private Brassaii dinner with Jason Reitman
Brassaii chef Bruce Woods served up honey-mustard-glazed salmon, goat cheese–stuffed chicken and champagne risotto for the cast...
Food & Drink
With a $500,000 renovation and new chef, Centro wants to be “taken seriously”
“Centro has always been good, but people have never come here for a gastronomical experience,” says owner Armando Mano as he...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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