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The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
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Edulis tops En Route’s Toronto-laden list of Canada’s best new restaurants
In her introduction to En Route’ s latest ranking of the country’s 10 best new restaurants, Sarah Musgrave declares 2012...
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Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Hoof Raw Bar, Lamesa Filipino Kitchen and Edulis
A raw seafood bar, a serious locavore bistro and Filipino fusion downtown Hoof Raw Bar 926 Dundas St. W., 647-346-9356 Jen...
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Enter the Banana Mafia: new posse of chefs to throw Asian Street Market party
While Nick Liu’ s fans wait for the opening of his new Asian brasserie GwaiLo, the former Niagara Street Café chef has been...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in April
• The Saint— after three long years of waiting, during which time most of Ossington rapidly gentrified, this neighbourhood...
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Introducing: Edulis, Michael Caballo and Tobey Nemeth’s reinvention of Niagara Street Café
After more than a decade in the neighbourhood, the well-loved Niagara Street Café has been reborn as Edulis. The restaurant’s...
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Nick Liu shows off some culturally promiscuous cooking at the preview dinner for his new restaurant, GwaiLo
Earlier this year, chef Nick Liu left Niagara Street Café to launch GwaiLo, a modern Asian brasserie-to-be with business partner...
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Niagara Street Café’s new owners Tobey Nemeth and Michael Caballo to relaunch it as Edulis
We already reported that Anton Potvin, until recently owner of the Niagara Street Café, had found buyers for his much-loved...
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Nick Liu to throw a pair of preview dinners for his new Asian brasserie, GwaiLo
Back in January, we reported that Nick Liu had left Niagara Street Café and was planning to open some manner of Asian brasserie...
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QUOTED: Niagara Street Café’s Anton Potvin on sealing the deal (yes, he’s found some buyers)
–Now former Niagara Street Café owner Anton Potvin, explaining that he’s found buyers for his quiet restaurant off King West...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top six places to cozy up with a glass of wine
CHECK OUT OUR SIX FAVOURITES » JUMP TO: BEST ANTI-LCBO LIST | BEST IBERIAN TAPAS AND WINE | MOST INTRIGUING WINES BY THE GLASS |...
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Steve Gonzalez to fill in at Niagara Street Café as owner Anton Potvin readies it for sale
Last week we reported that Nick Liu is leaving Niagara Street Café to open his own place, an Asian brasserie. As it turns...
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Nick Liu leaves Niagara Street Café to open an Asian brasserie
After manning the stoves at Niagara Street Café for three years, Nick Liu, who won acclaim for his ever-changing menus and...
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GALLERY: At this year’s What’s on the Table benefit, Toronto’s top chefs came out to support The Stop
On Wednesday, 550 Toronto foodies and philanthropists gathered in the Wychwood Barns for What’s on the Table, the annual...
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Toronto’s five best house-made pickles
Lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs, these pickles are the best of the puckery pack (Image: Gilead...
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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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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
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The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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Despite some reservations, Toronto will appear on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations
Toronto chefs and foodies, take note: Anthony Bourdain , the reformed bad boy of the culinary world, beloved potty mouth and host...
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Glazed and Enthused: 13 of Toronto’s best doughnuts
Fried dough is suddenly everywhere, infiltrating dessert cards and pastry cases and threatening to dethrone panna cotta as the...
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Summit Scene: dispatch from inside the G20’s kitchens by local restaurateur John Lee
Flak jackets, photo badges and the K-9 unit are a rare sight at catering functions (more often a staple of the ensuing...
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The Kimchee Effect: four dishes that deliver a Korean kick
Why fiery Korean flavours are getting even hotter Manhattan’s punk rock chef , David Chang of Momofuku fame, has almost...
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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
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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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
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