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The owners of Parts and Labour are opening a new burger shop on Queen West
In August, Parkdale’s hardware-store-turned-restobar Parts and Labour scored the title for Best Burger in Toronto on CMT’s new...
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Best of the City 2013: a thick, juicy cheeseburger that sticks to the essentials
Toronto has so many patty artisans, it could well support a burger guild. The Gabardine sets aside artisanal trickery and commits...
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Recipe: the explosively juicy burger from The Harbord Room’s Cory Vitiello
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 8 minutes Makes 8 burgers and 3 cups of aïoli AÏOLI 4 fresh large egg yolks 2 tbsp each grainy...
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Burger’s Priest at Queen and Spadina is now open
The third location of the owner Shant Mardirosian’ s crazy popular griddle-smashed burger chain opened its doors on Saturday to...
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Burger’s Priest is expanding to Etobicoke next (sorry, Mississauga)
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Another nostalgia-themed food truck takes to Toronto streets
First, Crossroads Diner, a food truck covered in painted images of 1950s American icons and serving kitschy diner food, popped up...
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Holy Chuck is bringing its outrageous burgers to suburban Vaughan
Toronto is crammed with craft burgers. Joints like the wildly popular Burger’s Priest and The Rude Boy on Roncesvalles are...
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Hero Burger is going to run the new snack bar at Nathan Phillips Square
After a surprisingly contentious three-hour debate, city council has decided to give Hero Certified Burgers the contract for the...
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Introducing: The Rude Boy, Roncesvalles’s new gourmet burger joint
Name: The Rude Boy Neighbourhood: Roncesvalles Contact info: 397 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-533-3269, @therudeboyronce Owners: Faiez...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in February
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Toronto Life Cookbook: Top Chef Canada champ Carl Heinrich’s top 10 ideas for how to dress up a burger
See all ten toppings »
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Introducing: The Burgernator, a new shop for burger lovers in Kensington Market
Name: The Burgernator Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact info: 269 Augusta...
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Introducing: Slider Revolution, Toronto’s first restaurant devoted to tiny burgers
With gourmet tacos, fancy hot dogs and “better burgers” popping up all over the city, Rich Lee saw a niche that was as yet...
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Attention downtown burger fiends: Five Guys is now open at Yonge and Dundas
Ever since Five Guys announced its expansion into Toronto, the city’s burger fiends (and there are many of them) have been...
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Slider Revolution hopes to bring an uprising of tiny burgers to the Danforth
Sliders, those tiny little burgers on their tiny little buns, have long been a fixture of catering menus in Toronto, but they...
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Big Smoke Burger to open a flagship location... in Manhattan
As Five Guys readies its expansion into downtown Toronto, Big Smoke Burger is getting set to open a Manhattan flagship store by...
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How Five Guys dominated the “better burger” market
Five Guys Burgers and Fries, the cult-favourite U.S. burger chain, has already set up shop in Scarborough and Don Mills, and is...
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Grindhouse Burger Bar bites the dust—for now at least
King West’s burger and karaoke bar Grindhouse is no more. The former gluten-free, vegetarian, and regular ol’ meat burger...
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The latest escalation in the burger wars: New York’s $666 Douche Burger
From New York City comes news of a burger so expensive, it makes M:brgr’s $100 offering (remember that?) seem entirely...
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Introducing: The Works on the Danforth, the first Toronto location of the cult fave Ottawa burger chain
After 10 years in the burger biz, The Works has finally made it to Toronto. Hailing from the nation’s capital, the award-winning...
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Introducing: Stack, uptown’s new barbecue restaurant (complete with a huge smoker)
“Anybody can do a good burger,” says Todd Savage , co-owner of Stack , uptown’s answer to Barque. “But being the pit...
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All-Beef Party: Toronto’s 25 best burgers ranked in order of heart-stopping, messy magnificence
Nine years ago, Mark McEwan scandalized Torontonians with his $35 truffled Bymark burger. That was before words like...
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VIDEO: Pizza Hut Middle East debuts pizza with cheeseburger crust (no, really)
We thought Pizza Hut was pushing the bounds of postmodernist pizza innovation with its Cheesy Bites pie. We were wrong. The lucky...
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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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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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