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Food & Drink
One of Toronto’s top chefs is opening a 16,000-square-foot chocolate factory
Brandon Olsen wants to keep chocolate Canadian
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Food & Drink
An award-winning pastry chef is opening his own shop this fall
Steven Tran Pâtissier Chocolatier is coming to Roncesvalles
Food & Drink
Inside Soul Chocolate’s new east-end factory and café
Read on to see how chocolate chips are born
Food & Drink
This Toronto man made a freakishly large Ferrero Rocher, and you can too
Recipe included
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Food & Drink
A&W Pop-Tarts, pizza-flavoured cheese puffs and 14 other things at Sweet Addictions Candy Co. that you won’t find anywhere else
Ranked from “Yeah, I’d eat that,” to “What kind of monster made this?”
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at CXBO, a colourful new sweet shop in Brockton Village
Bonbons, caramels and fruit jellies as if designed by Jackson Pollock and Buckminster Fuller.
Food & Drink
Twelve of the city’s most terrific chocolate truffles
We're cuckoo for this cocoa
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Food & Drink
Four new spots in the city to get your sugar fix
Because all the Halloween candy's gone, but the cravings remain
Food & Drink
Ex–Bar Isabel chef Brandon Olsen is opening a chocolate shop in Brockton Village
While he might be known for his work with foie gras and fried chicken, his true love is sugar
Food & Drink
How chocolatier David Chow makes his incredible, edible, over-the-top Easter eggs
For engineer-turned-pastry-chef David Chow , chocolate-making is the best of both worlds. “Chocolate is a very technical...
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Food & Drink
Chocolate Brunette Pastry Company brings more gourmet cupcakes to Yorkville
Chocolate Brunette Pastry Company recently opened at Ave and Dav, selling truffles, Italians sweets and their own...
Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Her: 6 gift ideas, from low-key to unabashedly romantic
Each year around February 14, the streets seem to be full of confused-looking men clutching bouquets of red roses or La Senza...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Museum Tavern, Moo Milk Bar and Riverside Public House
An old-timey bar, fancified fried chicken and haute milk and cookies Museum Tavern ½ 208 Bloor St. W., 416-920-0110 Walking into...
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Real Estate News
Nestlé resorts to robo-calls to fight a development next to its chocolate factory
The battle over a stretch of industrial decay sitting next to the Nestlé chocolate factory in the South Junction Triangle is...
Food & Drink
Raising the Bar: nine house-made chocolate bars, the ultimate fancified junk food
Chefs are taking artisanal junk food to a whole new level of twee with decadent house-made chocolate bars. See all nine bars »
City News
The List: 10 things Juno-winning jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
1| My childhood toy I grew up in Russia when it was hard to get children’s toys. I had one plastic doll, a couple of blocks and...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Niagara red from the region’s best vintage to celebrate Canada Day
Trius 2010 Red $21.95 | Niagara Peninsula | If you want to celebrate Canada Day with a homegrown wine, this Ontario red is the...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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City News
Rob Ford’s weight-loss challenge comes to a fittingly cringe-worthy end
Rob and Doug Ford’ s public weight loss spectacle is officially over, ending five months of public mockery and depressing or...
Food & Drink
Nutella settles lawsuit over health claims (apparently chocolate spread is not, in fact, health food)
Apparently the world of tasty hazelnut spreads can get pretty litigious. Ferrero, the company behind the sweet, sweet chocolate...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 23 to 29
Monday, April 23 Tuesday, April 24 Wednesday, April 25 Thursday, April 26 Friday, April 27 Saturday, April 28 Sunday, April 29
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Culture
The Top Chef Canada exit interview: episode 3, death by rendering
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
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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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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