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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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Food & Drink
Why tipping is going away (and why I’ll miss it)
As more Toronto restaurants go gratuity-free, how are we to reward good service?
Food & Drink
Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #9. Toronto’s gastropubs make the best Sunday roasts
Chef Andrew Carter offers a traditional beef roast at the Queen and Beaver pub near Yonge-Dundas Square. But with a few days’...
Food & Drink
Where to eat and drink near the 2012 Grey Cup
With 52,000 rabid and Stamps fans crowding the streets around the Rogers Centre on Sunday, you need a game plan for pre- and...
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Food & Drink
Nuit Mange: where to eat in the middle of the night during Nuit Blanche 2012
Nuit Blanche opens on Saturday night at 7:03 p.m. (see our full guide ), and with an entire night of roaming Toronto’s...
Culture
SPOTTED: Adrian Grenier stays casual, gets a bite to eat at O&B Canteen
Adrian Grenier, the former Entourage star and producer of the TIFF doc How to Make Money Selling Drugs, was snapped by an intrepid...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 places to eat
Amid the cocktail swilling and celebrity gawking, eating can be an afterthought during TIFF. Good news: there are plenty of...
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Terroir 2012 recap: what we saw, heard and ate at the big annual food industry meet-up
Last week, 500 members or so of Canada’s food and hospitality industry gathered for Terroir VI at the newly renovated Arcadian...
Food & Drink
Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Sarah Polley eating for two at O&B Canteen on King West
Yesterday we caught wind that Sarah Polley is three-and-a-half months pregnant, which means the soon-to-be mom is soon-to-be...
Culture
TIFF after hours: the 44 (and counting) film fest venues with the coveted 4 a.m. last call
Every year celebs from all over the world flood into the city for TIFF, but for many, it’s the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bannock, Oliver and Bonacini’s new café and restaurant at The Bay’s flagship store
It’s no secret that Hudson’s Bay Co. has undergone some big changes in recent years. The retailer’s revitalization project...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a pretty beet salad and a pair of seared scallops at O&B Canteen
Finding decent fuel between movies and celebrity gawking can be difficult during TIFF, but one advantage of the festival’s move...
Real Estate News
Mark Wahlberg purchases an exclusive penthouse property in the city that saved his life
TIFF is still a few months away, but the celebrity sightings are already starting. In the last week alone , Robert Pattinson made...
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Six places to watch this Friday’s Royal Wedding in style
The Royal Wedding is more than just another way for Canadians to express their fondness for the motherland; Kate and Will are also...
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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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Terroir 2011 roundup: we talk to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the foodie symposium
A couple weeks back, 400 members of the food and hospitality industry gathered at Hart House for Terroir V. The annual symposium...
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Muskoka’s Windermere House latest annexation in the ever-growing Oliver & Bonacini empire
After three new restaurant openings last year ( O&B Canteen , Luma and O&B Café Grill ), a $1 million facelift at Canoe and a...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
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Just Opened: we review O&B Canteen and Brockton General
Brockton General 1321 Dundas St. W., 647-342-6104 The usual rules of running a restaurant don’t apply at this tiny former sports...
Real Estate News
The Bell Lightbox is also a giant money box
The numbers are in. Not surprisingly, credit card spending was up in the Entertainment District, while Yorkville saw a slight...
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Culture
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...
Food & Drink
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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’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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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
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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