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Food & Drink
Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
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Food & Drink
Where chef Rob Gentile eats lamb biryani, bone broth and doughnuts in his east-end neighbourhood
His favourite places to go in Corktown, Leslieville and Little India
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Buca, Rob Gentile’s new all-day spot at Yonge and Eglinton
Hope you're hungry, midtown
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Why Buca Yorkville’s branzino crudo is one of Toronto’s most essential dishes
We're asking some of the city’s top food folks about their favourite T.O. meals
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
Food & Drink
Buca is expanding to the 905
Get ready, Vaughan
Food & Drink
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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Life
Real Weddings 2016: Inside Buca chef Rob Gentile and wife Audrey’s rustic celebration at the Burroughes Building
Spoiler alert: the food was amazing
Food & Drink
What was served at Buca Yorkville’s $300 Michelin-starred dinner
There was a blowtorch involved
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Buca’s executive chef Rob Gentile
A few of the things it's stocked with: champagne, homemade turkey chili and a ton of olives
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Toronto’s top 10 late-night snacks, and where to find them
Ten places in Toronto to eat really great, really late
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Six zucchini flower dishes that won’t be around for long
These awesome blossoms are on menus right now
Food & Drink
What Buca chef Rob Gentile finds foraging—and how he uses it
Everything the Buca team found in the forest, and what they did with it all
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Buca Yorkville hosts another Michelin-starred Italian chef
Here's a look at last night's one-off meal
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Buca Yorkville hosts Michelin-starred Italian chefs
Here's a look at last week's one-off meal
Food & Drink
Introducing: Jamie’s Italian, Jamie Oliver’s first North American restaurant, at Yorkdale Mall
And everything on the family-friendly menu is sustainable and ethically sourced
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Culture
The Weeknd’s homecoming, a Warhol retrospective and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 2
Food & Drink
Loka Snacks’ Dave Mottershall is Kickstarting a restaurant (and he’s looking for a west-end location)
Chef Dave Mottershall , who operates Loka Snacks out of Riverside's Hi-Lo Bar , has a goal: to open his own restaurant. But what...
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The high price of cheap shrimp: where restaurants get their prawns from and why you should care
We’ve gradually come to care about how our beef is raised, who stitches together our clothes and the carbon footprint of our...
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Way-out wagyu: Michelin-starred Massimo Bottura’s psychedelic steak from Buca’s one-of-a-kind dinner
Aimed at showcasing Italy’s culinary kicks, "Sotto una buona stella" (or, "under a lucky star") dinners will see six...
Food & Drink
Jamie Oliver is opening a restaurant at Yorkdale (and nine more across Canada)
Instead of flitting straight to New York or Los Angeles like every other celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver —the floppy-haired...
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The Critic: Rob Gentile’s new Bar Buca seduces with tripe, tendon and twists of pig skin
I’ve developed a taste for blood first thing in the morning. Rob Gentile, the chef at Bar Buca, mixes fresh pig’s blood into...
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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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Recipe: Buca chef Rob Gentile’s bittersweet puntarelle salad with crispy fried smelts
PREP TIME: 25 minutes COOK TIME: 2 minutes Serves 2 to 4 PESTO 2 cups loosely packed basil leaves ¼ cup olive oil 1 tbsp toasted...
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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
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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