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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Paula Navarrete, the executive chef of Momofuku’s new restaurant
A few of the things it's stocked with: booze, mustard pickles and lots of hot sauce
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Now available at Daishō: the cheeseburger that caused the longest lineup in Shake Shack history
The Momofuku Shrimp Stack is a cheeseburger topped with lettuce, pickled onions, "Momofuku Hozon sauce" (a kind of fermented nut...
Food & Drink
The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: Shared Meals
Foie gras–stuffed chicken, porterhouse steak and whole suckling pig are the new extravagant norm There were six of us up against...
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Five food fads we love
After recessionary years of hanging our puffy coats on the backs of chairs (and inevitably seeing them trampled by wait...
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One more reason to eat at Momofuku: a brand-new patio
Torontonians have never been more spoiled for places to eat, drink and schmooze al fresco. In the last month alone, at least half...
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Bo ssäm and grown-up slushies at Momofuku’s midsummer bash
The August Long Weekend is bittersweet: it’s at once a day off and the official midsummer hump. The Momofuku Summer Party is a...
Food & Drink
Matt Blondin is no longer at Momofuku Daishō
Matt Blondin, the ambitious Toronto chef that came up through Colborne Lane’ s modernist kitchen before opening Acadia in...
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Chef Patrick Kriss leaves Acadia
Food & Drink
Must-Try: a heaping plate of crispy fried chicken served family style at Daisho
At Daishō, the largest of the three Momofuku restaurants, the chicken is lightly fried in a savoury batter and served family...
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Slideshow: Claudio Aprile hosts a farewell dinner for Colborne Lane with six of his top alumni
Claudio Aprile closed Colborne Lane in February with little notice in order to focus on his growing stable of Origin...
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Best New Toronto Restaurants 2013
One thousand three hundred and eight. That’s how many restaurants opened in 2012—more than triple the year before, and the...
Food & Drink
The Dish Power Rankings: The Valentine’s madness edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: buzzing diners and taco insurgents
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: brunches and bans
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Toronto Restaurant Power Rankings: game on
Toronto is in the middle of a great restaurant boom. Over 150 restaurants opened in the last year alone, most of them hyped on...
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Trend We Love: Huitlacoche (a.k.a. corn smut), spotted on Mexican and non-Mexican menus alike
Huitlacoche (pronounced weet-la-KOH-chay), a corn fungus that’s popular in Mexican food, has two commonly used English names:...
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Review: Momofuku Daishō, the new place for family-style fried chicken and bo ssäm
One of three new David Chang restaurants, Daishō has a split personality. The glass-walled room, with its dazzling bird’s-eye...
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Momofuku Fever: we review David Chang’s new four-in-one mega-restaurant
David Chang’s new complex on University Avenue—three restaurants and a bar—puts a Toronto spin on a New York phenomenon In...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in September
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Introducing: Momofuku Toronto, David Chang’s new four-in-one restaurant megaplex
A full 18 months after it was first announced—18 months of salivating over the thought of pork buns and ramen and worrying about...
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Introducing: Daishō, Momofuku Toronto’s home for “large-format” meals
Up on the third floor of the Momofuku complex is Daishō , an 80-seat space devoted to large family-style meals. Ample natural...
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How much does a tasting menu at the new Momofuku Shoto cost?
We always enjoy taking a gander at The Price Hike, where Bloomberg News food critic Ryan Sutton applies his Excel-ninja skills to...
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More Momofuku Toronto details trickle out
No, Toronto’s Momofuku outposts are still not open (and it looks like the projected August opening date may not happen...
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Acadia’s Matt Blondin to join Momofuku’s Toronto team after all
When Matt Blondin announced (via Twitter, naturally) that he’d be stepping away from Acadia, the molecularly tinged Southern...
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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
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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
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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
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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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