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Elevate fall feasts with unexpected maple-focused recipes
From cocktails to entrées and desserts, this naturally sweet ingredient adds the perfect touch
Created for
Maple from Canada
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How to make chef Miriam Echeverria’s syrup-drizzled candied pumpkin
Miriam Echeverria has cooked Italian at L’Unita and French at Greta Solomon’s, but for her friends and family, she loves to go...
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How to make Barberian Steak House chef Jesse Vallins’ exceptionally cheesy chard with vermouth
Proving everything's better with a bit of booze
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How to make chef Billy Alexander’s venison with blueberry-sweetgrass sauce and roasted sweet potatoes
Consider it a new beast for your autumnal feast
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How to make Bar Reyna owner Nicki Laborie’s savoury tomato tart
It's the perfect way to segue from summer into fall
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How to make Beach Hill Smokehouse’s Texas-style smoked chicken—without a smoker
All you need is a grill and some wood chips
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Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Uncle Mikey’s punchy peanut noodles at home
They’re chef Mikey Kim’s ode to a $2 dish from New York’s Lower East Side
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Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Dova’s Sicilian spin on cacio e pepe at home
Chef Roberto Marotta's creamy counterpoint to the preternaturally punchy pasta
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Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Momofuku Kojin’s Loco Moco Smash Burger at home
It's a saucy, multi-napkin ode to one of Hawaii's signature dishes—surfboard sold separately
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How to make Civil Liberties’ gin martini
Bartender Nick Kennedy shares his signature recipe
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Recipe: goat cheese panna cotta from Toca chef Gihen Zitouni
PREP TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 1 day BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Serves 10 PANNA COTTA 1 vanilla bean 2 cups whipping...
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Recipe: Parkdale bakery Glory Hole’s delectable chai-spice doughnuts
PREP TIME: 30 minutes COOK TIME: 16 minutes Makes 32 3-inch doughnuts or 40 quenelles. CHAI SUGAR 1 cup granulated sugar 3 tbsp...
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Six ways with smoothies, from the Big Carrot’s blending expert
Sarah Dobec, the liquid breakfast queen at the Big Carrot’s juice bar, whizzes up delectable recipes you’d never guess were...
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Recipe: how to make the avocado-cilantro slaw from Ossington snack bar Oddseoul
PREP TIME: 15 minutes Serves 4 AVOCADO SLAW 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar ¾ tsp sesame oil ¾ tsp granulated sugar...
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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...
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Recipe: Origin chef Claudio Aprile’s tropical “bangcakes”
PREP TIME: 33 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 6 (3 pancakes each). 1 400-mL can coconut milk CARAMEL ¾ cup granulated sugar...
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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...
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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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Recipe: how to make the spicy eggs Rajasthan from brunch spot Saving Grace
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 25 minutes Serves 2 CHICKPEA MASALA 1 large red onion 2 tbsp vegetable oil 2 tbsp ground...
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Recipe: the supremely fluffy raisin scones from Fika in Kensington Market
PREP TIME: 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 24 hours BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Makes 12 to 14 scones RAISIN SCONES 3 ½ cups all-purpose...
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Recipe: how to make Ici Bistro chef J.P. Challet’s blissfully buttery mushroom quiche
PREP TIME: 40 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 30 minutes BAKE TIME: 42 minutes Serves 6 to 8 PASTRY 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour ¼ tsp...
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Recipe: Aria chef Eron Novalski’s hearty farro salad with porcini vinaigrette
PREP TIME: 1 hour COOK TIME: 50 minutes Serves 6 VINAIGRETTE 1 cup dried porcini or mixed mushrooms, about 20 g 4 cups boiling...
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Six ways with rum, from The County General’s Jeff Carroll
The pirate’s grog is making a comeback. Here, County General bartender Jeff Carroll concocts his favourite rum cocktails, with...
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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
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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