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“I’d be the primary caregiver all day and then run the business until 2 a.m.”: The owners of Montgomery’s on why they were ready to close their Queen West restaurant
After five years and three lockdowns, they're ready to pack it in—for now
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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What’s on the menu at Montgomery’s, chef Guy Rawlings’ very first restaurant
The consulting chef for Bellwoods Brewery and Bar Isabel now has a place of his own
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Guy Rawlings is opening Montgomery’s on Queen West
He finally has a kitchen of his own
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Dundas West restaurant Brockton General is closing in March
After a nearly four-year run on Dundas West, Brockton General will be shutting its doors for good in early March. The restaurant...
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Introducing: Bar Isabel, Grant van Gameren’s highly anticipated new restaurant in Little Italy
Name: Bar Isabel Neighbourhood: Little Italy Contact info: 797 College St., 416-532-2222, barisabel.com, @BarIsabel797 Owners:...
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Grant van Gameren’s Crown Cooks is now called Bar Isabel
Crown Cooks, the forthcoming Little Italy venture from ex- Black Hoof chef Grant van Gameren and Max Rimaldi (Pizzeria...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in January
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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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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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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Bar Volo reopens today with double the taps and a refreshed menu by Guy Rawlings
The Yonge Street beer geek den Bar Volo closed for a snap renovation last Sunday and reopens today with some big changes. Most...
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GALLERY: The Dinner Party, a celebration of women in the kitchen from some of Toronto’s top female chefs
Restaurant kitchens can be macho, male-dominated places. So, on Monday night, 60 guests gathered at The Great Hall to celebrate...
The Weekender: James Bond, Kimbra and six other events on our to-do list
1. DESIGNING 007: 50 YEARS OF BOND STYLE The TIFF Bell Lightbox exhibits all things 007 to celebrate 50 years of the...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 22 to 28
Monday October 22 Tuesday October 23 Wednesday October 24 Thursday October 25 Friday October 26 Saturday October 27 Sunday October...
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Beer geeks steel yourselves: Cask Days 2012 will be bigger than ever
Bar Volo, the Yonge Street den for beer geeks, seems perpetually restless. It was just voted the city’s best spot to grab a...
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Keriwa Cafe moves to an all-tasting-menu concept
Last year, we named Keriwa Cafe, the new Parkdale spot from chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe , to our list of the 10 best new...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 17 to 23
Monday, September 17 Tuesday, September 18 Wednesday, September 19 Thursday, September 20 Friday, September 21 Saturday, September...
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Our top four picks for Toronto Beer Week
The third annual Toronto Beer Week kicks off this Friday, with over 50 bars and restaurants, 25 breweries and two importers...
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Best of the City 2012: the top 10 places to go and things to do for a good time in Toronto
Pinball Café 1662 Queen St. W., 416-402-7932 In an era where almost every amusement has been shrunk to fit on a smart phone, this...
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Introducing: the Monday’s Dinner chef series at Chantecler
Last year, Jonathan Poon and Jacob Wharton-Shukster, along with Woodlot’ s Jeff Connell, ran a series of popular, mainly...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in April
• The Saint— after three long years of waiting, during which time most of Ossington rapidly gentrified, this neighbourhood...
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Gallery: the highly-anticipated collaboration between Jason Carter and Daniel Burns, two of Canada’s top out-of-work chefs
This weekend, 90 diners gathered over three nights at Mitzi’s on College for one of this year’s most highly anticipated...
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Introducing: Bellwoods Brewery, Ossington’s new brewpub and snack bar
After a bit of a lull in new openings, it seems as though Ossington is in the middle of yet another restaurant and bar boom, with...
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Winterlicious 2012: our food editor whittles the monster list down to a manageable 11
It might be hard to believe, but Winterlicious celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. That’s right: it’s been a whole...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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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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