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Food & Drink
Two GTHA chefs just won prestigious pizza prizes
North America's best cheese pizza is being made in a small bakery outside of Hamilton
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Food & Drink
How top Toronto chefs keep customers coming back
Some of the biggest names in food share what makes their restaurants successful
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Food & Drink
Twenty Toronto chefs and bartenders explain the stories behind their tattoos
Grant van Gameren, Alexandra Feswick and others dish on their ink in Brilynn Ferguson's portrait series, Industry Ink
Food & Drink
Good cooks are quitting the kitchen, and that’s bad news for your favourite restaurant
Experienced cooks are tired of being paid like the kid who shovels the driveway
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because these women rule our kitchens
Food & Drink
Toronto Taste 2013: We sample dishes from the chefs of Buca, Splendido, Scaramouche and more
More than 60 restaurants and other food purveyors took part in the 23 installment of Toronto Taste at the ROM on Sunday, offering...
Food & Drink
We fête the launch of the Toronto Life Cookbook with sample recipes from top Toronto chefs and mixologists
Last night, we celebrated the launch of our newest special interest publication, the first-ever Toronto Life Cookbook— the urban...
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How a small group of farmers and wealthy weekenders made the Melancthon mega-quarry protest a cause célèbre
An unexpected casualty of Toronto’s building boom is the sleepy southern Ontario township of Melancthon, where an American hedge...
Food & Drink
The Internet wishes Julia Child a happy 100th birthday
Today would have marked the 100th birthday of the doyenne, dowager countess and grande dame of (North) American cookery, Julia...
Food & Drink
Iron Chefs: how the fine dining institution Splendido creates culinary superstars
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Captain John’s Restaurant succumbs to the stormy seas of unpaid back taxes
The ongoing debt and legal issues at Captain John’s Harbour Boat Restaurant, the iconic marine eatery docked at the foot of...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: O&B’s Anthony Walsh on his favourite kitchen prank
—Anthony Walsh, the corporate executive chef (i.e. culinary overlord) at Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants, telling Swallow Food’s...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 12 to 18
Monday, March 12 Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16 Saturday, March 17 Sunday, March 18
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Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
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This is what happens when 12 culinary students get to cook with Paolo Lopriore, the world’s 39th best chef
During the second year of their apprenticeship at the Stratford Chefs School— considered one of the most prestigious in the...
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The musical kitchen chairs continue at Maléna and L’Unità with Matthew Sullivan’s departure
Back in October, we reported that Matthew Sullivan, fresh off his abortive pop-up series Boxed, had taken over the reins at...
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Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: one of the city’s most offal books
While it might be easier to just wait two hours for a meal at The Black Hoof, we suggest getting a foodie friend something useful...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from chimpanzees to zucchinis
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from bookshops to protest flops
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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Toronto Taste 2011: We get the latest news from top chefs and restaurateurs from Woodlot, Buca, Nota Bene, O&B and many more
Two thousand of Toronto’s food lovers and makers gathered at the ROM on Sunday for the 21st edition of Toronto Taste . The...
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New summer food truck event fuels hopes for a Toronto street food revolution
Steeltown might have beaten us to the food truck race, but three special events starting this summer are laying the groundwork for...
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Check out liquid nitrogen–poached doughnuts and other molecular miracles from a recent Modernist Cuisine demo
What’s it like to sear caramel on a -34 °C anti-griddle, poach doughnuts in liquid nitrogen (around -196 °C), or use low...
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Bringing Sexy Back: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Aria and Toca
After three years of restaurant restraint, Aria and Toca, two unabashedly flashy new spots, are giving diners a reason to get...
Food & Drink
Marben set to host Toronto’s latest sausage fest on Wednesday nights
Completing its transition from King West chic to rustic barnyard, Marben has announced it’s hosting the first annual Marben...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’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
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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