Bloor bisto La Société (Image: Gizelle Lau)
The buzzy Bloor Street bistro wants you to eat just like Toronto’s fashion elite. Charles Khabouth’s Yorkville restaurant is creating special menus based on stylish Torontonians personal recipes. The menus started in April with healthy dishes and fun cocktails from the people at The Coveteur, and this month fashion icon Jeanne Beker is sharing recipes for her Moroccan spiced snapper and chestnut crêpes. Next month, socialite Suzanne Rogers is up. If her cooking is anything like her fashion, we expect very rich, very bold dishes topped with the culinary equivalent of a whole lot of lace.
Toronto Fashion Week is ostensibly about the clothes, but at least half the fun is seeing socialites and celebs air-kissing and yoo-hooing in between shows. While loitering at the tents this year, we ran into Toronto’s newest and most high-profile 
Bling, baubles and babes dominated Arcadian Court on Tuesday at the second annual Great Jewellery Heist in support of Bridgepoint Health. Fashion gals and society dames faced off in an auction, bidding on jewellery by designers like Jenny Bird and Chloe Comme Parris as well as some vintage pieces and flashy fine jewels. The likes of Kimberley Newport-Mimran, Shay Lowe, Ainsley Kerr, Jeanne Beker and Bernadette Morra circulated the room, emitting the obligatory oohs and ahhs at the baubles on display. Not that many didn’t come with jewels of their own—Catherine Nugent whipped off her oversized shawl to reveal an Alan Anderson statement necklace and matching bracelet.
