Chefs Dan Pantano (Glas), John Sinopoli (Table 17 and Ascari Enoteca), Sean Simons (Goods and Provisions and The Comrade), Afrim Pristine (Cheese Boutique) and Deron Engbergs (The Curzon) created the East End Dinner Club in part to push back against the perception promulgated by Globe and Mail food critic Chris Nuttall-Smith that east-end restaurants are trapped in an early oughties time warp of tacky décor and bad food. At the Dinner Club’s first event last night, the “East Side Till We Die Dinner” hosted at Skin and Bones, the group served a $100 six-course meal with each chef cooking a dish and tweeting #eastsidetillwedie all the while.

For over a month, Leslieville meat shop Sausage Partners has been suspiciously “closed for renovations.” Now Rosedale butcher Olliffe has
With all the talk of condo bubbles, over-the-top bidding wars and failed flips, wading into Toronto’s housing market requires equal parts bravery and real estate savvy. To help with the latter, we decided to dish when the properties we profile in our 



Leslieville’s uber-ethical bakery LPK’s Culinary Groove recently announced that it will be closing at the end of the year. In a long and bittersweet
For those visiting Bonne Journée, Tunisian ex-pat Hitchem Charfi’s new French bakery on Queen Street East, it helps to know that from 1869 to 1956, Tunisia was a French protectorate. Hence the unique—in Toronto at least—combination of French baked goods with a short menu of sandwiches concealing North African spicing and flavours (think: 

