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Season three of
Top Chef Canada
airs Monday night
Tonight at 9 p.m., a fresh crop of 16 cheftestants will take to Food Network Canada to vie for the approval of Top Chef Canada...
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Culture
Top Chef exit interview, episode 13: second runner-up
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Culture
A chat with the winner of Top Chef Canada season two
Yesterday, we got a chance to speak with the winner of season two of Top Chef Canada to find out what it’s like feeding Mark...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 13: you win some, they lose some
Last night’s Top Chef Canada episode started in fine finale form, with the three remaining contestants —Carl...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 12: fashion victims
With only four chefs remaining in the competition, last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada started in style—with Carl...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 11: Italian stallions and KD virginity
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada kicked off with a little sentimental reflection by the chefs at their digs—the condo...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 9: whose palate is it anyway?
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 9: roughin’ it
Last night’s episode featured two guest judges ( Spencer Rice, a.k.a. Spenny, and Roger Mooking, a.k.a. MC Mystic ), one topless...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 8: later, caterer
Last night’s episode started with some reflections from the chefs back at their, um, glamorous condo. Xavier Lacaze was amazed...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: the craving games
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada accomplished a couple of rare feats: it brought last season’s host Thea Andrews onto...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 2: hokey doke
The original U.S. version of Top Chef tries to maintain a steely cool tone with the chefs run ragged and constantly at each...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 1: and we’re baaaaaack
Let’s face it: season one of Top Chef Canada wasn’t perfect. Some people complained that the cooking lacked...
Culture
The Toronto Top Chef Canada contestants go through the motions for us at a mock quickfire
Season two of Top Chef Canada premieres this Monday, and to celebrate, Food Network Canada held a mock quickfire challenge at...
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Top Chef Canada season two contestants announced; here are your six Toronto chefs
With the sophomore season of Top Chef Canada set to premiere on March 12, Food Network Canada has finally introduced the 16 chefs...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 13: the winner takes it all
It’s been quite a ride. After 12 weeks of special guests, horsing around and glorious product placement, season one of Top Chef...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 11: street meet
From the opening moments of last night’s Top Chef Canada , we learned the following: Dale MacKay , the supremely self-confident...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 10: puffed up
This week’s episode of Top Chef Canada began with Vancouver-based chef François Gagnon mourning the loss of recently eliminated...
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The List: 10 things restaurateur and Top Chef Canada judge Shereen Arazm can’t live without
My ciccio fix Terroni founder Cosimo Mammoliti invented the ciccio, the world’s best sandwich: prosciutto, bocconcini and...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 8: warring restaurants
The Restaurant Wars challenge on Top Chef is always a fan favourite, and for good reason—it’s a reliable way to jump-start any...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 7: placing products
Top Chef and blatant product placement have always gone hand in hand, with each season ratcheting up the level of sponsor...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: ethnic stuff white people like
First off, a confession: focusing on Top Chef Canada last night, as the ground-shaking results from the election poured in, was a...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: Aykroyd’s verboten vodka
Was it just us, or was the level of cooking on last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada miles ahead of the safe, bland fare from...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 1: playing with knives
Like most fans of the original, American Top Chef , we came to last night’s premiere of Top Chef Canada with some pretty serious...
Food & Drink
Top Chef Canada contestants announced; we round up the six Torontonians who made the cut
We’re already on the record as counting down the days until the April 11 debut of Top Chef Canada (it’s 42, in case you were...
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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
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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