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Food & Drink
Eastern Promises: hearty, meaty, carb-heavy Eastern European food is Toronto’s next big comfort cuisine
In the ’60s, Toronto had a bustling Eastern European food scene. Polish, Hungarian and German immigrants opened up humble cafés...
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Food & Drink
Wvrst, a new King West beer hall, to feature menu from “Southern Italy by way of Munich”
A couple weeks back, news broke that the space that once held Marc Thuet ’s Conviction (which closed last fall and was...
Food & Drink
Conviction Kitchen over, but not the end of TV for Marc Thuet
It was fun while it lasted, but despite plans to eventually bring Conviction Kitchen to the U.S., next week’s season finale of...
Food & Drink
Q&A with Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich: The restaurateurs talk about Conviction Kitchen II, their marriage and how Vancouver compares to Toronto
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are exhausted. It’s taken the pair a month to recuperate after shooting the second season of their...
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Food & Drink
Marc Thuet closes Conviction for good, but has two new restaurants in the works
Just over a year after opening Conviction —the third incarnation of their flagship restaurant—chef Marc Thuet and partner...
Culture
Spotted: Hilary Swank, Bill Murray and Helen Mirren at Roots
Hilary Swank swept by Roots not once but twice on Monday. The two-time Oscar winner, in town gunning for her third as a waitress...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hilary Swank and the woman she portrays at the Conviction press conference
"If I didn't do justice to this story, which is so beautiful and inspiring, I don't think I could live with myself," said...
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Culture
TIFF Fashion Poll: red-carpet battle at the Conviction premiere
Hilary Swank, Leslie Bibb, Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis all went for jewel tones at the Conviction premiere on Saturday. Who...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver and Sam Rockwell at the Conviction premiere
The stars of Conviction ( Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, Sam Rockwell, Juliette Lewis among them) showed up at the Elgin theatre...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: James Franco, Hilary Swank and Marion Cotillard party at the Thompson Hotel
The TIFF celebrity brigade was out in full force at the Thompson Hotel on Saturday night to celebrate the films from Fox...
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Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Alliance Films celebrates TIFF with Juliette Lewis, Erin Karpluk and hundreds more guests
For the past four TIFFs, Alliance Films has left the party organizing to everyone else. Well, not this year. The bash last night...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Roger Ebert Twitter showdown, Hello! party, Vanity Fair party, OneXOne fundraiser
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 12:00 p.m. George Christy Luncheon at Avenue Bar and Print Room...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and...
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Food & Drink
Thuet’s upcoming cookbook now has a title and release date
More details of Marc Thuet' s cookbook are out as he and Biana Zorich prepare to head out west to work on the second season of...
Food & Drink
Best new restaurants 2010: James Chatto names five honourable mentions
Toronto Life 's annual ranking of the city's 10 best new restaurants is in our April issue, on newsstands now. Despite the...
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Go west: Marc Thuet leaves T.O. to take Conviction to B.C. and the U.S.
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are leaving Toronto to take on Vancouver and the United States. Following the success of their two...
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Seth Rogen as Martin Picard, obtaining a perfect peach, America’s most bizarre restaurants
• The cool, rainy spring that kept tomatoes green has actually been good for the peach crop. The New Jersey Peach Council says...
Food & Drink
Cookbook fracas: Susur Lee, Marc Thuet and other Toronto foodies displeased as Canadians left out of 100 Emerging Culinary Stars
The country’s top chefs and food writers are outraged that an upcoming book profiling the world’s 100 most promising chefs...
Food & Drink
Final throes: Where to find a table during the last weekend of Summerlicious
The dog days of Summerlicious are here, and with reservations down at top restaurants across the city, many tables are sitting...
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Food & Drink
Out of sight: Toronto’s first blind dining restaurant leaves guests in the dark
Though it’s been done to death in other cities, the “blind dining” trend is finally coming to Toronto. O. Noir, which...
Food & Drink
Anthony Bourdain hates cupcakes, Thuet gets convicted, Fall Out Boy’s underage flub
• Chef and author Anthony Bourdain tells the Seattle Times he's had enough of the cupcake trend, that Kobe beef should not be...
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Summerlicious restaurants announced
Get those dialing digits ready: the city has released its list of the 150 restaurants participating in the seventh edition of...
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Food & Drink
Goodbye, Bite Me. Hello, Conviction: Marc Thuet’s new restaurant opens tonight, staffed with reformed criminals
Two days before the opening of Conviction , chef Marc Thuet’s latest restaurant venture, the dining room has no tables, a fat...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s man of Conviction: Marc Thuet will open his fourth restaurant this Friday
Top T.O. chef Marc Thuet will be launching a new dining concept this Friday—and it will be staffed by 13 former...
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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
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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