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Scott Vivian
City News
Toronto chefs are tapping into the power of partnership
Restaurant crossovers have become a recipe for sell-out crowds
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Food & Drink
The city is making restaurateurs pay nearly $1,000 to use their own patios this year
Toronto—where you can’t even step outside without forking over cash
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Beast Pizza, Scott Vivian’s new pizzeria serving meaty pies and whole-animal feasts
Also: what are quite easily the city's coolest takeout boxes
Food & Drink
What happens when a bunch of Toronto and Montreal chefs get together for a hockey game? They make a ton of killer food (and also play some hockey)
It was more about food than sport
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Culture
The Ex, a Shawn Mendes show and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 15
Food & Drink
Charlie’s Burgers is hosting a one-off dinner at Wayhome Music Festival
It's a step up from the usual food truck fare
Food & Drink
Trend we Love: Philly cheese steak, spotted in low- and middlebrow incarnations
Those who’ve grown weary of sanctimonious locavorism will welcome the sudden ubiquity of the Philly cheese steak on Toronto...
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VIDEO: Watch Jennifer McLagan peel lamb’s testicles with Matty Mattheson
The last time the words “sizzle reel” were deployed on TorontoLife.com, they were in reference to Lake Shore, the ill-advised...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2012: four extravagant whole-beast feasts
Catch 744 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-658-0568 Chef Nigel Finley at Catch, St. Clair West’s new sustainable seafood...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 30 to August 5
Monday, July 30 Tuesday, July 31 Wednesday, August 1 Thursday, August 2 Friday, August 3 Saturday, August 4 Sunday, August 5...
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Food & Drink
Here’s where Anthony Bourdain stopped by during his Toronto layover
Regular Dish readers will know that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s favourite bad-boy chef–turned–professional eater was in town last...
Food & Drink
A look at the pork-mad garden party that was the Group of Seven Hogtown Throwdown
What do you get when you give eight chefs a Perth Pork pig, some beer and wine and an open-air venue to host an event? A...
Food & Drink
Our top six picks for Ontario Craft Beer Week
The third annual Ontario Craft Beer Week kicks off on Father’s Day (i.e., this Sunday) with 29 breweries participating in 29...
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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
Canoe Shack-Up: Au Pied de Cochon’s Martin Picard brings his Quebec crew for an epic, maple-soaked feast at Canoe
Acclaimed Montreal chef Martin Picard , best known for his haute-rustic gastronomic temple Au Pied de Cochon, was in town to...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 5 to 11
Monday, March 5 Tuesday, March 6 Wednesday, March 7 Thursday, March 8 Friday, March 9 Saturday, March 10
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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
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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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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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...
Food & Drink
The great scapes: five ways that Toronto chefs are using garlic shoots
For the past few weeks, garlic scapes have been cropping up on menus throughout the city. An early summer treat, these shoots are...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Beast. Scott and Rachelle Vivian take over the Amuse-Bouche space
“I don’t dislike vegetarians, but my style of cooking is heavy on meat,” says chef Scott Vivian . It’s more of a warning...
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Scott and Rachelle Vivian leaving Wine Bar to take over Amuse-Bouche space
Well, that didn’t last long. One of the couples that took over the Wine Bar from Jamie Kennedy last September—chef team Scott...
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Two vices are better than one: Toronto’s cafés break out the booze
If we’re to believe Leah McLaren, the MacBook army has totally colonized Toronto’s coffee shops. Now, thanks to a new...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’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
Big Stories
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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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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