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Three LCBO stores with rare wines from Greece, Spain and Portugal
Think of them as pop-ups for Old World enthusiasts
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Spanish white for sauvignon blanc lovers
Mania 2011 Verdejo $13.95 | Rueda, Spain | The small, sleepy town of Rueda lies in the arid highlands northeast of Madrid. Like...
Food & Drink
Q&A with Andoni Luis Aduriz, head chef and owner of Spain’s famed Mugaritz
Widely hailed as one of Ferran Adrià ’s most talented protégés, Andoni Luis Aduriz , chef and owner of Mugaritz, on the...
Food & Drink
Health bulletin: fried foods now good for you (sort of)
Turns out you can have your deep-fried cake and eat it too. Well, sort of. A new study in the British Medical Journal has found...
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David Lawrason offers nine reasons why garnacha makes for great barbecue wine
Backyard sommeliers bored with the usual summer reds (merlot, shiraz, zinfandel) should try fruity garnacha. It is more commonly...
City News
Twitter gives Toronto its own “trending topics” section, unironically puts city on same list as New York and London
OMG, it’s #stuffYYZlikes! Twitter, rather than discover a way to let people share their feelings with more than 140 characters...
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Louis Vuitton wins World Cup of product placement
Perhaps the real winner of yesterday’s final World Cup game wasn't Spain at all—it was Louis Vuitton. In one of the most...
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Food & Drink
Mixed marriages: nine excellent blended wines
White blends are red hot Before buying a bottle , we all want some idea of what it holds in store, and we often look to the grape...
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Safety in numbers: Are the world’s highest-scoring wines really that good?
A taste test of critics’ picks It has been three decades since a group of American critics introduced the 100-point scoring...
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Ferran Adrià is optimistic about the future of El Bulli
The announcement in the New York Times last week that chef Ferran Adrià would permanently close El Bulli, the restaurant many...
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“World’s best restaurant” closing for two years
Come 2012, the small Spanish coastal town of Roses will have to rely on its natural charm to bring in the tourists. Its primary...
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Best 10 wines under $10
Value, not prestige, is the new watchword in the wine world. Here, 10 bottles under $10 that smash the stigma of cheap...
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Smoking my way to a unique charcuterie plate
The cold weather makes for good smoking, so I’ve been in the farm’s smokehouse a lot lately with duck breasts and suckling...
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Rivers Run Through It: Vintages’ June 21 Release
The trumped-up theme for Vintages’ June 21 release is Europe’s Wine Rivers: Great Finds From Legendary Riverside...
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The LCBO’s blockbuster $10 deals
After tasting virtually the entire LCBO general list in preparation for the annual Toronto Life Eating & Drinking guide, I know...
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Savage Grace (***_)
With Savage Grace , Julianne Moore plays a mid-century housewife for the fourth time in her career (the other three were for Far...
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Blooming Whites
If you have never dedicated your wine budget to exploring the world’s aromatic whites, I suggest that now might be an opportune...
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Hog wild
Chalk one up for the nerds, the diehards, the people who stay to the bitter end of every party. At Pangaea, on Thursday, Michael...
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Vintages’ April 12 Release: The Top 10
Vintages stores will be releasing dozens of new wines this Saturday. I have been able to taste most of them in advance along with...
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Vantage Point (*)
Vantage Point offers election year audiences the sick pleasure of watching a staid U.S. president getting shot again and again and...
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New Year’s bargain hunting
The flood of wine through Vintages stores doesn’t stop for an event as paltry as a New Year’s. With Monday’s Champagne fizz...
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Trophy Wines Sell Out
My Drink column in current issue of Toronto Life reviews ten very expensive, gifting wines released Saturday (December 8th) at...
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Holiday Shopping at Vintages
As much as I personally like to drag my heels on the issue of Christmas shopping, it was clearly evident from the throngs in the...
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15 Top Releases
Wine of the WeekObikwa 2007 Shiraz, Western Cape, South Africa ($9.65, 87 points, 527499) Huge value for less than 10 bucks. This...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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
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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
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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
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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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