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Rose and Sons
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Q&A: Comfort food king Anthony Rose on his new Dupont Street deli
"I love that we’re bringing great Jewish food back to the masses"
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What’s on the menu at Rose and Sons, Anthony Rose’s diner-turned-deli on Dupont
Including matzoh ball soup, a Manischewitz spritz and black-and-white cookies
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Anthony Rose is closing Rose and Sons and opening a deli in its place
Maybe the deli isn't dying after all
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The best fried chicken sandwiches in Toronto right now
We'd like to apologize to your arteries ahead of time
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11 of Toronto’s most bonkers breakfast sandwiches
The most insane morning meals between sliced bread (or brioche, or doughnuts, or fried chicken thighs)
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Anthony Rose just opened a second Big Crow in Trinity Bellwoods
It's almost like drinking in the park—but legal!
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Inside the kitchen of chef and comfort-food king Anthony Rose
Don't mind the bathrobe
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Introducing: Bar Begonia, Anthony Rose’s Parisian cocktail bar in the Annex
This is the sixth spot for Toronto's comfort-food king
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #33, Anthony Rose
Rose is Toronto’s restaurant oracle
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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How Anthony Rose became Toronto’s comfort-food king
With five trendy spots (and another on the way), he's the Judd Apatow of our city's restaurant scene
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Anthony Rose’s Bar Begonia will open on Dupont
Anthony Rose' s sixth spot, Bar Begonia , will be located at 252 Dupont Street just steps away from his trio of Annex...
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Fifteen of the city’s most insane caesars
Every good Canadian worth his or her celery salt knows that the sodium-packed caesar is our national cocktail, and this year the...
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Queen West is getting a Rose and Sons
Anthony Rose is at it again, but this time he's moving away from the empire he's set up on Dupont. His new spot will be in the...
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Recipe: how to make the beefy, gooey, ridiculously indulgent patty melt from Rose and Sons diner
PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 42 minutes Serves 6 CHILI MAYO 1 cup mayonnaise ¼ cup Sriracha 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp...
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Top Five: Toronto’s best brunch spots
Where to go for the city’s most hedonistic breakfast feasts Sunday-morning reservations are filled far in advance. The crowds...
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Coming Soon: Fat Pasha, a Middle Eastern restaurant from Rose and Sons chef Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose, the chef and co-owner of Rose and Sons and Big Crow, is opening yet another restaurant on Dupont Avenue. Fat...
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Top Five: The best sandwiches in Toronto
Not so long ago, Toronto’s sandwich scene was dominated by standard Reubens and triple-decker turkey clubs. Today, chefs are...
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Introducing: Big Crow, Anthony Rose’s new backyard barbecue tucked behind Rose and Sons diner
Name: Big Crow Neighbourhood: The Annex Contact info: 176 Dupont St. , 647-748-3287, roseandsonsbigcrow.com Owners: Anthony Rose...
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Anthony Rose is opening a BBQ restaurant behind Rose and Sons later this summer
An as-yet-unnamed eatery from chef Anthony Rose, who left The Drake Hotel last year to open the first of three new restaurants, is...
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Critic: Toronto’s love-hate relationship with brunch
How the unholy amalgam of hangovers, soggy toast and overpriced eggs became a city-wide ritual of belt-loosening hedonism Brunch...
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Prep School: Chef Anthony Rose dishes on three ways to prepare nostalgia-inducing smoked whitefish
Smoked whitefish is all over the midday menu at the Summerhill diner Rose and Sons. Here, Rose talks about why he loves it, and...
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The Binge List: top 20 Toronto sandwiches
Not so long ago, Toronto was a white-bread city. That was before chefs started baking Danish rye, sous-viding bacon and otherwise...
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Trend We Love/Hate: Toronto’s inflated comfort food economy
We at Toronto Life are avid consumers of upgraded comfort food—but we’re beginning to notice that the prices are climbing in...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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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