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Course correction: At his audacious new restaurant, Alo, Patrick Kriss revives the sullied art of the tasting menu
The new restaurant at Queen and Spadina is the best to open in the city this year—in many years, in fact.
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Month: six takes on kitschy clams casino
Clams casino, the kitschy Italian-American favourite of bivalves baked on the half shell, is being revamped on modern menus. See...
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Flavour of the Month: lobster goes casual in five pub-style plates
After a recessionary hiatus, the symbol of culinary luxury is back on menus, but something’s changed: lobster has gone...
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Winterlicious 2013 Last Call: the scoop on the hot restaurants that still have tables available
Winterlicious ends on Thursday, but not before the dramatic final push, during which diners inundate their favourite ’licious...
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Winterlicious 2013: our food editor picks 10 ideal meals from this year’s list
Winterlicious is upon us again, with restaurants serving three-course prix fixe dinners for $25, $35 or $45. The roster doesn’t...
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We dropped by the Great Toronto Tartare-off to discover a meatetarian frenzy
Last night, Grapes for Humanity corralled some of the city’s top culinary talent under one roof (that of the Fairmont Royal York...
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Forgot to make a Valentine’s Day reservation? Here are 10 restaurants that still have space
Hoping to take your sweetheart to Splendido, Scarpetta or Auberge du Pommier for Valentine’s Day? Well sorry, it’s too...
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We called the 10 most clicked Winterlicious restaurants to find out how the festival’s going (and how to get a table)
With the end of Winterlicious in sight, we got curious about how this year’s prix fixe madness was going. “Stronger than last...
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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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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for King West and the Financial District
The dining scene in and around the Financial District has seen a lot of changes since last year’s festival, with new restaurants...
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GALLERY: All the chefs and dishes from last night’s Gold Medal Plates gala
Toronto’s annual Gold Medal Plates gala took place last night at Metro Toronto Convention Center. Celebrated in nine cities...
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This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond
Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this...
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The Milky Way: 9 of Toronto’s most beautiful ricotta, mozzarella and burrata creations
Luscious Italian cheeses are the best things to emerge from Toronto’s enduring rustic Italian infatuation. From buffalo milk...
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We called the 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to scope out their experience—and availability
Toronto restaurants are firmly in the grip of Summerlicious , which continues to this Sunday, so we decided to find out how the...
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Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s favourites for the Financial District
Power lunchers and after-work diners are the bread and butter of Summerlicious. Here, 22 Toronto Life picks for where to...
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Five things we learned about O&B from Corey Mintz’s behind-the-scenes feature
With the recent announcement that Toronto’s ever-growing food service company Oliver and Bonacini Restaurants is set to make The...
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The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
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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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Flavour of the Month: eight core-warming winter cocktails
The city’s best bar hands are dreaming up boozy cocktails to take the edge off our mid-February malaise Hot Buttered Rum The...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the lobster burger at Luma
At the Bell Lightbox’s sleek upmarket restaurant, chef Jason Bangerter elevates Bay Street bistro standards with innovative...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Peek inside TIFF’s new home, the Bell Lightbox
“Why are we here?” a young child asks his mother inside the freshly opened Bell Lightbox. What a poignant question. We had...
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Introducing: O&B Canteen, Oliver and Bonacini’s restaurant in the eye of the TIFF storm
After eight years at suburban Auberge du Pommier, chef Jason Bangerter was called downtown to head up Luma and O&B Canteen at the...
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O&B reveals the names of its Lightbox restos
What a coincidence: Oliver and Bonacini put out a press release about its new Lightbox restaurants just as TIFF published its list...
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’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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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
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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
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
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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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