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Review: Playa Cabana Cantina, the Junction’s raucous new taco bar
Proof that the Junction is the next hot neighbourhood: it now has the city’s best tacos. Playa Cabana, the crammed Annex...
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Introducing: Playa Cabana Cantina, the Junction’s kitschy new taco bar
Dave Sidhu’ s Playa Cabana Cantina, which opened late last month in the Junction, is Toronto’s latest taco-and-tequila...
Food & Drink
Introducing: A-OK Foods, a new ramen and snack bar from the owners of Yours Truly
Earlier this year, Yours Truly shifted to an all-tasting-menu format, eliminating the popular bar snacks that had helped build the...
Food & Drink
Trend We Love: Huitlacoche (a.k.a. corn smut), spotted on Mexican and non-Mexican menus alike
Huitlacoche (pronounced weet-la-KOH-chay), a corn fungus that’s popular in Mexican food, has two commonly used English names:...
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Playa Cabana is setting up sister Cantina in the Junction
Dave Sidhu, owner of the Annex’s Playa Cabana, will be opening Playa Cantina at 2883 Dundas West in the coming weeks, bringing...
City News
Eight portraits of the affluent, educated professionals flocking to Toronto from around the world
As the global economy fizzles, our city is being inundated with a new cohort of foreign professionals. They’re coming for the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Rebozos on College, a new downtown location for one of the city’s best taco joints
Seven years ago, before tacos had become all-but-inescapable in Toronto, Mexico City native Indalecio Marroquin opened Rebozos, a...
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Mucho Burrito to sell two burritos laced with the notorious ghost pepper
The ghost pepper, a super-spicy Indian hybrid chili also known as naga bhut jolokia, has taken on quasi-mythic status over the...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2012: Toronto’s top tacos, brunch, pampering service, pickling classes and more
Splendido 88 Harbord St., 416-929-7788 Even if a diner wheezed up to Splendido’s Harbord Street door in a beat-up...
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Agave y Aguacate closes in Kensington but will be popping up here and there
After just over a year of delighting Kensington Market with his meticulous Mexican street food, Francisco Alejandri, the affable...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the lamb barbacoa tacos at Playa Cabana
Playa Cabana provides a shady Annex refuge for the throngs of taco lovers in Toronto. Just after it opens at noon, diners fill the...
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Introducing: Maizal Quesadilla Café, a Liberty Village spot serving Mexican street food that’s not tacos
In a city that can’t gobble tacos down fast enough, Gabriela Ituarte and Ivan Wadgymar have chosen to do things a little...
Food & Drink
Introducing: La Carnita, the bricks-and-mortar incarnation of the pop-up taco sensation
Last July we introduced you to La Carnita, the city’s first pop-up taco stand. It was also, of course, a cheeky experiment by...
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Introducing: Easy Restaurant, the College Street outpost of the classic Parkdale breakfast joint
With the advent of brinner and the dizzying popularity of all things bacon, it’s not surprising that all-day breakfast joints...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the aromatic pozole at Tacos El Asador
Although the city is currently in the grips of a full-blown taco mania, Tacos El Asador gives Torontonians reasons to celebrate...
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Turns out, frozen yogurt and burritos were Toronto’s biggest restaurant trends in 2011
Last week, the NPD Group released a report full of interesting revelations about this hungry city’s eating habits and the...
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Introducing: Kitch, a new restaurant and club just north of the tracks at Dupont and Dufferin
Kitch bills itself as a place for “eats and beats”—the eats coming courtesy of Bryan Jackson, noted waffle lover and owner...
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New Reviews: Don Don Izakaya, Pachuco Modmex and Hopgood’s Foodliner
A Japanese izakaya to rival Guu Maritime comfort food and more haute tacos DON DON IZAKAYA 130 Dundas St. W., 416-492-5292 Taiko...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 16 to 22
Monday, April 16 Tuesday, April 17 Wednesday, April 18 Thursday, April 19 Friday, April 20 Saturday, April 21 Sunday, April 22
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Introducing: Toucan Taco Bar, Riverside’s new Mexican joint
“People in this city love burritos,” says Richard Henry, owner of Riverside’s new Toucan Taco Bar. Henry, the owner of two...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: five top renditions of this year’s hot Mexican street food, the tostada
Every chef and his sous found inspiration in Mexican street food this year. Here, five high-piled tostadas that had us ordering...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 26 to April 1
Catch A Matter of Taste , which follows 10 years in the life of Paul Liebrandt, at the Revue Cinema on Thursday Monday, March 26...
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Introducing: Pachuco, the new Danforth Mexican restaurant from the sisters behind Embrujo Flamenco
As defined by Urban Dictionary, a pachuco is “a Chicano or Mexican guy back in the 1930s to 1950s that dressed in zoot suits.”...
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Amaya empire to expand into the lucrative kiddie birthday biz with Bazaar: Global Food Bar
It seems the man behind Amaya is no longer satisfied with merely serving Indian food. According to a story in The Grid, Hemant...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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!”
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