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Winterlicious
Food & Drink
Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for King West and the Financial District
The dining scene in and around the Financial District has seen a lot of changes since last year’s festival, with new restaurants...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for Yorkville and the Annex
Winterlicious is typically pretty generous to the denizens of the Annex and Yorkville, and this year is no exception. Here, our 10...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks west of Bathurst
The Winterlicious restaurants west of Bathurst are a mixed bag, from authentic Mexican at Frida to hipster institutions like The...
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks north of St. Clair
The vast area north of St. Clair is well represented in Winterlicious this year. Here, our 14 picks.
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Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks east of the DVP
This year, like usual, the area east of the DVP hasn’t done too well in Winterlicious. Here, our four picks on the Danforth.
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It’s the (kickoff to the) most Winterlicious time of the year: 2012 prix fixe menus announced today
Get those dialing digits ready: Toronto Special Events has just announced the slate of restaurants for Winterlicious 2012. The...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s the etiquette for tipping with Groupon?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I used a Groupon recently to get my hair done at an expensive Rosedale salon. It saved me 65 per cent. When...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Canoe, the Oliver and Bonacini flagship revamped
After 16 years at the top, Canoe , one of the city’s culinary beacons, closed its doors on New Year’s Day for a...
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The fate of legendary table 26 and other tales from Canoe’s reopening
On Tuesday, we found ourselves sitting at the chef’s rail at Canoe for the second night of the Oliver and Bonacini joint’s...
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A first glimpse inside the renovated Canoe
Last December we reported that Canoe would be closing up shop for a million-dollar facelift. Unlike most construction projects in...
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Get ready, everybody: Winterlicious 2011 starts today and we’ve got you covered
After 17 days of furious jockeying for reservations, Winterlicious —the city’s annual festival of prix-fixe menus, packed...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Few subjects are as divisive among Toronto diners and industry people as the merits of Summer- and Winterlicious. While the...
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The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
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Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and...
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Get those dialling digits ready: Summerlicious restaurants have been announced
It's the day every frugal foodie has been looking forward to since February: the Summerlicious restaurants have been...
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J.P. Challet leaves the Windsor Arms (again) to pick up the pieces at Ici Bistro (again)
Master chef J.P. Challet is leaving the Windsor Arms Hotel ’s Prime just five months into his tenure —and nine years after...
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Six food trends we hate
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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Toronto knock-off of Iron Chef will pit Jamie Kennedy against Ted Corrado
The second annual Stop for Food festival is pretty much a rip-off of Winterlicious and Iron Chef, but since it’s for...
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Greg Couillard’s Spice Room may be closed for good among accusations of bounced cheques, serving without a liquor licence and thousands in unpaid wages
It seems as though every restaurant nightmare is presently playing out in the basement of Hazelton Lanes, where Greg Couillard’s...
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Backlash menus: some Toronto restaurants go rogue during Winterlicious by serving up their own prix fixe
Summer- and Winterlicious are divisive topics among those in the restaurant biz: some enjoy the increased business, while others...
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Trouble stewing at the Spice Room?
It seems like just yesterday that we spoke with Greg Couillard at the Spice Room about his trips to Toronto to prepare special...
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J.P. Challet returns to the Windsor Arms
More than a decade after he reopened the restaurant at the Windsor Arms, French chef J.P. Challet is returning to revamp the...
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Winterlicious reservations start today
Today is the biggest pre-festival day for Winterlicious: reservations are now being taken at the 150 participating...
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The 69 best restaurants of Winterlicious
Starting January 14 (or January 12 with an American Express card), Torontonians can start making reservations for the annual prix...
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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
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
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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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