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Food & Drink
A ranking of Toronto’s 10 best new cookies
Including a sesame sourdough standout, a peanut butter miso masterpiece and the best delivery mechanism ever devised for walnuts
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Food & Drink
Nügateau is Toronto’s first all-éclair bakery
Nothin' but cream puffs
Food & Drink
Must-Try: The homey foie gras brûlée from Woodlot in Little Italy
There are few things more quintessentially French than crème brûlée—except perhaps foie gras. At Woodlot, the cottagey...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2013: a whimsical dessert that’s almost too pretty to eat
Dessert is a chef’s last chance to make an impression, and Bruce Woods seizes the moment with his dainty sea buckthorn...
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Must-Try: The County General’s flash-frozen ice cream sundae for two
Part dessert, part chem-lab demonstration, The County General’s Kitchen Sink sundae captures the drama of retro flambéed...
Food & Drink
Recipe: blackberry-yuzu ice pops from Janet Dimond of Augie’s Gourmet
PREP TIME: 10 minutes FREEZING TIME: overnight Serves 9 to 10 BLACKBERRY-YUZU ICE POPS ¾ cup cane sugar 1 lemon 2 limes 8 cups...
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Recipe: dense, moist banana bread pudding from The Westerly
PREP TIME: 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 3 hours BAKE TIME: 50 minutes Serves 8 to 12 BANANA BREAD PUDDING Butter for greasing ½...
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Must-Try: the inventive grapefruit givré dessert at Café Boulud
Café Boulud’ s stunning grapefruit givré is the highlight of its dinner menu. It’s also an import from New York. Ghaya...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Year: five desserts with a delicious, savoury twist
Dessert has gone savoury with celery on ice cream, marrow in pudding and parsnips with pastry. Here, five salty-sweet ways to...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it rude to order dessert when there’s a line of people waiting for a table?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I recently waited for two hours to get a table at a new restaurant at Dundas and...
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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 »
Food & Drink
Introducing: Glory Hole Doughnuts, Ashley Jacot De Boinod’s new crowdfunded Parkdale shop
Ashley Jacot De Boinod’ s doughnut journey began about a year ago. Having worked as a pastry chef in some of the best spots in...
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Best of the City 2012: six of Toronto’s best sweet things, from vegan brownies to fior di latte gelato
Il Gelatiere Artigianale 647 Mount Pleasant Rd., 416-488-2663 “Fior di latte” translates as “flower of milk,” and whether...
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Introducing: Moo Milk Bar, the Beach’s new spot for milk and cookies
There are few ills in this world that can’t be ameliorated with a crisp, chewy cookie and a cold glass of milk. The Beach’s...
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Must-try: posh popsicles that taste like summer on a stick
At last year’s annual Roncesvalles block party, Janet Dimond lured foodies to a makeshift ice pop stand on the corner of...
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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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Must-Try: an offbeat dessert (it has foie gras) that’s worth its $25 price tag, from The Black Hoof
Two toast toppers —one lowbrow, one luxurious—come together in the Foie and Nutella, The Black Hoof’s most inventive dessert...
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The Weekender: Kensington Market Sweets Tour, The Ting Tings and six other items on our to-do list
1. ANNUAL EASTER “EGG”STRAVAGANZA Forget DIY Easter egg hunts, because once the chocolate eggs are gone, it’s all...
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Must-Try: hot chocolate with sinfully good blowtorched marshmallows at Bobbette and Belle
Toboggans and cross-country skis, woolly sweaters and brisk sub-zero air call for piping hot chocolate. The Leslieville dessert...
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Roncesvalles staple Granowska’s Bakery to serve its last paczki at the end of the month
On the morning of Thursday, June 13, 1972, after three straight days of baking, Elizabeth Klodas and her mother Maria opened the...
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GALLERY: Our 10 edible picks from this year’s Toronto Christmas Market (mulled wine very much included)
You don’t have to be a wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked tot to enjoy the second annual Toronto Christmas Market at the Distillery...
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10 of the most mouthwatering Toronto pies and tarts
Hit the ’nog and let the city’s best bakers do dessert. Here, 10 top Toronto pies See the best Toronto pies and tarts »...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 2, Rock n’ Peach Bliss Cheesecake
Two episodes into the Food Network Canada’s new televised PC product development lab , it’s starting to sink in that things...
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Introducing: Sadie’s Juice Bar, Kensington Market’s vegan-friendly drink spot and ice cream parlour
Sadie’s Juice Bar , an offshoot of Sadie’s Diner on Adelaide, has finally opened in Kensington, after months of papered-over...
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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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