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Main Course Recipe
Food & Drink
Recipe: Campagnolo chef Craig Harding’s incomparable spaghetti all’amatriciana
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 36 minutes Serves 6 to 8 SAUCE 2 19-oz cans San Marzano tomatoes 1 medium carrot, coarsely...
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Recipe: Bar Isabel chef Grant van Gameren’s grilled steak with shishito peppers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 2 minutes GRILL TIME: 4 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day Serves 4 to 6 STEAK 1 ½ tbsp dried...
Food & Drink
Recipe: how to make La Carnita’s buttery, queso-topped Mexican corn
PREP TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: 17 minutes Serves 4 MEXICAN CORN 4 cobs corn, shucked 2 - 3 pinches salt 2 - 3 tbsp melted butter...
Food & Drink
Recipe: Côte de Boeuf’s decadent duck confit (it’s worth the two-day preparation process)
PREP TIME: 10 minutes COOK TIME: 3 hours plus 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days Serves 4 DUCK CONFIT ⅔ cup brown sugar ⅓...
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Food & Drink
Recipe: how to make the creamy, chili-spiked laksa soup from Hawker Bar on Ossington
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 40 minutes Serves 4 LAKSA PASTE 8 Thai red chilies, seeded 1 tsp each cinnamon and coriander seeds 1...
Food & Drink
Recipe: how to make perfect pan-roasted halibut like the Harbord Room’s Cory Vitiello
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes Serves 4 ONION SOUBISE ⅓ cup unsalted butter ⅓ cup arborio rice 4 thyme sprigs...
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Recipe: how to make Buca chef Rob Gentile’s buffalo ricotta-stuffed cannelloni
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 44 minutes Serves 3 TOMATO SAUCE 2 lb fresh roma tomatoes ½ cup olive oil ¼ white...
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Food & Drink
Recipe: how to make the beefy, gooey, ridiculously indulgent patty melt from Rose and Sons diner
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 42 minutes Serves 6 CHILI MAYO 1 cup mayonnaise ¼ cup Sriracha 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp...
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Recipe: how to make the authentic Spanish paella from King West’s Patria
PREP TIME: 30 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 40 minutes Serves 4 SOFRITO 1 ½ tbsp olive oil ½ white onion, finely diced 1 small...
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Recipe: how to make Rock Lobster’s gooey, overstuffed lobster roll
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 11 minutes Serves 4 LOBSTER ROLL 1 ¼ lb live lobster ¼ cup mayonnaise 1 ½ tbsp freshly...
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Recipe: Oxley chef Andrew Carter reveals how to make his unforgettably aromatic lamb curry
PREP TIME: 28 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day ROAST TIME: 1 hour Serves 6 LAMB CURRY 3 tbsp coriander seed 3 tbsp cumin seed 2...
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Recipe: The Gabardine’s creamy, coma-inducing macaroni and cheese
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 27 minutes Serves 4 to 6 3 cups dry macaroni BREAD CRUMB CRUST ¼ cup butter 1 tbsp...
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Recipe: the traditional (and patriotic) tourtière from Woodlot’s David Haman
PREP TIME: 1 hour REFRIGERATION TIME: 6 hours COOK TIME: 1 hour 32 minutes Makes 3 tourtières PÂTE BRISÉE 1 ½ cups all-purpose...
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Recipe: A-OK Foods may be closing, but the deliciously addictive bulgogi torta lives on
PREP TIME: 25 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 10 minutes Serves 6 MARINADE 1 small onion, coarsely chopped ¼ Asian...
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Recipe: seared trout and smashed taters from seafood restaurant Starfish
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes Serves 4 SEARED TROUT AND SMASHED POTATOES 3 Spanish onions ½ cup plus 1 tbsp...
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Recipe: The Stockyards pitmaster Tom Davis’s crispy, cayenne-kicked fried chicken
PREP TIME: 20 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days COOK TIME: 1 hour Serves 4 to 8 BRINE ¼ cup each granulated sugar and kosher...
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Recipe: spaghettini and gooey mozzarella meatballs from Woods chef Bruce Woods
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 55 minutes Serves 4 TOMATO SAUCE 2 cans of plum tomatoes, each 28 oz 2 tbsp olive oil 1 large...
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Recipe: butter-poached lobster from the virtuous fishmongers at Hooked
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 4 BUTTER POACHED LOBSTER Coarse sea salt 6 lbs live lobster, about 4...
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Recipe: bison pemmican from Keriwa chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe
PREP TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION: 5 days BRAISE TIME: 2 to 4 hours COOK TIME: 1 hour Serves 4 to 8 BISON PEMMICAN 1 bison or...
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Recipe: the earthy and elegant chicken in hay from locavore bistro Edulis
PREP TIME: 20 minutes BAKE TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes Serves 4 CHICKEN BAKED IN HAY 3½-lb whole chicken 2 large handfuls alfalfa...
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Recipe: cochinita pibil tacos from La Carnita
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 32 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 4 hours Serves 5 to 10 COCHINITA PIBIL TACOS 100 g achiote paste 10...
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Recipe: Cava’s killer octopus, chicken and clam paella
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 1 hour 45 minutes Serves 4 to 6 SOFRITO ¼ cup olive oil 1 large white onion, chopped 2 cloves...
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Recipe: Pork buns from Swish by Han, a down-and-dirty Korean take on the trendy snack
PREP TIME: 15 minutes | COOK TIME: 10 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: overnight Serves 4 to 6 SPICY PORK 1½ cups gochujang 2- to...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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!”
Just Listed
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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
Guelph is having a moment