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Prep School: Geoff Hopgood of Hopgood’s Foodliner shows us three ways to make spectacular carrots
Roast them. Toss a bunch of whole, peeled carrots with a quarter cup of softened butter, then wrap in tinfoil. Bake in a...
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Food & Drink
Recipe: hot crab dip from Geoff Hopgood of Hopgood’s Foodliner
PREP TIME: 15 minutes BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Serves 8 to 12 HOT CRAB DIP 2 cups crab meat, canned or lumped ½ lemon 12 oz cream...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Year: Five tips for preparing vegetables from the city’s top chefs
A miracle has occurred in this meat-obsessed city: vegetables have shown up on menus. Here, five top chefs offer easy tips for...
Food & Drink
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...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Top Chefs and Bieber power
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...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Room 203, Guy Rawlings’ new food event space
Room 203 is the latest project from chef Guy Rawlings, who first gained notoriety at Brockton General before taking on consulting...
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The first-ever Toronto Life Cookbook is on newsstands—get it now
Ever wonder how The Harbord Room makes the best burger in the city? Or what goes into the insanely addictive crab dip Geoff...
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
Best of the City 2012: Toronto’s top tacos, brunch, pampering service, pickling classes and more
Splendido 88 Harbord St., 416-929-7788 Even if a diner wheezed up to Splendido’s Harbord Street door in a beat-up...
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Missing the Hoof Café? Geoff Hopgood is serving brunch at Foodliner for one day only
Yesterday afternoon, Geoff Hopgood, chef and owner of Hopgood’s Foodliner and the man responsible for those epic, meat-mad...
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See the official menu for Chef Grant Soto’s “Night of Gravitas” (vomitorium not included)
The menu for “A Night of Gravitas,” a charity dinner on a boat hosted by the local Internet troll “Chef Grant Soto” (also...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 5, because these 21 new businesses opened on Roncesvalles
Every weekend, the sidewalks of Roncesvalles Avenue are jammed with strollers, tethered dogs and couples in heated debate over...
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New Reviews: Don Don Izakaya, Pachuco Modmex and Hopgood’s Foodliner
A Japanese izakaya to rival Guu Maritime comfort food and more haute tacos DON DON IZAKAYA 130 Dundas St. W., 416-492-5292 Taiko...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in February
Even in the winter, it can be hard to keep pace with all the restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is...
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Introducing: Hopgood’s Foodliner, the new Roncesvalles restaurant from Hoof Café vet Geoff Hopgood
It’s been while since Geoff Hopgood, best known (and beloved) for the innovative brunch he served at the now-closed Hoof Café...
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We stopped by the inaugural Food Truck Eats and found a revolution in the making
Saturday marked the inaugural staging of Food Truck Eats , a street food event organized by Suresh Doss , publisher of Spotlight...
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Geoff Hopgood on leaving the Hoof empire and opening his own place (and yes, there’ll be brunch)
A while back we told you about Food Truck Eats, tomorrow’s food truck event in the Distillery District, noting the participation...
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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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Greatest Hits: Chris Nuttall-Smith picks the 25 most delicious dishes of the last year
The 25 most delicious dishes tasted this year, ranging from lowbrow comforts (potato puffballs) to high-minded masterpieces...
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Goodbye Hoof Café, hello Black Hoof and Company
After just over a year of bone marrow doughnut holes and lineups out the door, Toronto's most unabashedly carnivorous brunch...
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A photographic tour of one of Toronto’s best brunch menus
A mere six months after opening, the brunch at the Hoof Café has become the city's most coveted (witness the lineups snaking out...
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Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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Just Opened: The Hoof Café melds Grant van Gameren’s charcuterie with brunch favourites and bar food
Last year, the Black Hoof ’s tiny kitchen ignited the city’s love of carnivorous delights with its bold charcuterie plates and...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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