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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Hot Pork, a new deli counter serving sandwiches and house-made charcuterie
Also: poutine topped with local curds and gravy made using drippings from the smoked brisket and pork belly
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Food & Drink
Recipe: Pear chutney from Stasis, a sweet and garlicky accompaniment for charcuterie and cheese
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes Makes 3 250-mL jars PEAR CHUTNEY 2 garlic heads 1 tsp canola oil 6 large Bosc...
Food & Drink
Must-Try: Karelia Kitchen’s twist on the charcuterie plate
The smokehouse platter at Karelia, the city’s only real Scandinavian restaurant, is a refreshing departure from the standard...
Food & Drink
The Month that Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in December
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Hogtown Charcuterie, Kensington Market’s new spot for prepared meats
It’s no secret that pig is big right now. The aptly named Hogtown Charcuterie, in Kensington Market, offers a wide selection of...
Food & Drink
Bar Volo reopens today with double the taps and a refreshed menu by Guy Rawlings
The Yonge Street beer geek den Bar Volo closed for a snap renovation last Sunday and reopens today with some big changes. Most...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Richmond Station, the new downtown restaurant from Top Chef Canada champ Carl Heinrich
Carl Heinrich and Ryan Donovan announced their departure from Marben to start a “new project” back in February, well before...
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Best of Fall 2012: three of the trendiest kitchen essentials
(Images: from left, courtesy of Naomi Duguid; The Healthy Butcher; and Herriott Grace)
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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
Gallery: the inaugural Dîner en Blanc Toronto, complete with drizzle, open flames and sparklers
Last Thursday, a sea of nearly 1,400 white-clad picnickers flooded Fort York for the first annual Dîner en Blanc. Although...
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Prince Edward Bounty: a hedonist’s guide to eating and drinking in Ontario wine country
In Prince Edward County, $1.3 million buys a lot of real of estate—an entire 19th-century inn, to be precise. That’s how much...
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Toronto’s newest raw food boutique, Belmonte Raw, proves dishes below 47° can still taste great
Outside Belmonte Raw, Leslieville’s new organic, vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free raw food restaurant, a trio of...
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Toronto’s best five restaurants to go for a business lunch
The top five spots to break bread, dent the expense account and sign a deal while you’re at it (Image: Aria’s red wine–cured...
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Grant van Gameren and Guy Rawlings take over the reins at Lucien
Six weeks or so after leaving the Black Hoof behind him, Grant van Gameren has found a new home. Alongside Brockton General’ s...
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Introducing: F’Amelia, Cabbagetown’s cozy new Italian restaurant (with a kitchen of ex-Splendido chefs)
During the first week of operations for F’Amelia, a new Cabbagetown Italian restaurant owned by locals John Dawson (formerly of...
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Introducing: Le Kensington, the new French bistro from the owners of Loire
Le Kensington Bistro , the second eatery from the owners of Harbord Street’s Loire (one of 2009’s best new restaurants...
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New barbecue joint Hardys: A Hogtown Brasserie to open in Stockyards territory
Apparently this city has not yet had its fill of barbecue joints. Hardys: A Hogtown Brasserie , will open to the public in mid...
Food & Drink
Goodbye Hoof Café, hello Black Hoof and Company
After just over a year of bone marrow doughnut holes and lineups out the door, Toronto's most unabashedly carnivorous brunch...
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Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap
The recession might be over. The dollar is flying high. But we’re still feeling conflicted about money. Spend conspicuously and...
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Good Stuff Cheap: 11 selections for a kick-ass and low-cost charcuterie plate
House-made prosciutto ($3.69 per 100 g) from Masellis is sweet, buttery-soft, tender and rich, with a hint of porky barnyard—and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ceno, Av and Dav’s latest spin on haute Italian
To set up a new Italian restaurant in the epicentre of Yorkville’s Mini Italy—that short stretch of Avenue where L’Unita...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
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Spotted! Gordon Ramsay dining (and tipping decently) at the Black Hoof
If you’ve ever wondered just how devoted the Black Hoof is to its no-reservations policy, consider this: when chef-owner Grant...
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Inside the fridge of chef Marc Thuet and restaurateur Biana Zorich
In our new series, Crisper Chronicles, we ask the city's top food personalities to let us into their most intimate alimentary...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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
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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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