After months of visiting restaurants, bars, kitchens and hospitality venues across Ontario, the 2026 Gold Plate Awards tour is entering its final stretch — and the anticipation is building. Throughout 2026, the Gold Plate Awards team has been on the road experiencing the people, places and culinary talent that continue to shape Ontario’s hospitality industry. […]
Shake Shack and Pizzeria Badiali Team Up for a Three-Item Collab Toronto Can’t Stop Talking About Pizzeria Badiali has spent years earning one of the most reliable lines in Toronto — the kind of block-long queue that forms outside its Dovercourt storefront on a regular weeknight, not just a special occasion. Now that reputation is […]
Bramalea City Centre’s Food Court Just Got a Major Upgrade Food courts don’t usually make headlines, but Bramalea City Centre’s newly completed renovation is a genuine exception. The Brampton mall has wrapped a multimillion-dollar overhaul of its South Food Court, and the transformation is significant enough that it’s worth planning a visit around. Located at […]
Slammie Sammies Gets Locked Out of Its Own Restaurant — By Its Own Business Partner For a sandwich shop with a name that basically promises drama, Slammie Sammies has now lived up to it in a way nobody saw coming. The Toronto favourite, known for oversized, deliberately messy sandwiches piled onto homemade Mafra buns, spent […]
11 New Toronto Restaurants Worth Adding to Your List Toronto’s restaurant scene doesn’t really pause, and the latest wave of openings makes that obvious — eleven new spots, scattered across the city and covering everything from British-Indian sports bar food to a $5 gnocchi counter. Here’s where to point your next reservation. Tap N Tandor […]
A Guide to the Danforth’s Most Essential Greek Institutions Toronto’s Greektown didn’t earn its reputation overnight, and along the Danforth strip that’s hosted Taste of the Danforth for decades, a handful of restaurants have been quietly doing the real work — feeding the same families for generations, well before the festival turned the neighbourhood into […]
10 Toronto Restaurants Where Kids Eat Free This Summer With just a few weeks left before the school year resets everyone’s routine, this is prime time to squeeze in a last round of family outings — without blowing the budget in the process. A handful of Toronto restaurants are helping make that easier with kids-eat-free […]
A Hilary Duff-Approved Toronto Food Itinerary, Courtesy of Streets Of Toronto Back in January, Hilary Duff did what basically anyone touring with a new album does now: posted a food video and asked the internet for recommendations. From London, mid-bite on a salt beef bagel at the famous Beigel Bake, she asked what she should […]
This Toronto Couple’s Wedding Was Catered Entirely by Swiss Chalet — and Dippy Made an Appearance Most couples spend months agonizing over flowers, venues and colour palettes. Sharla and Sean skipped all of that in favour of something far more personal: a wedding built entirely around their shared love of Swiss Chalet. The Toronto couple’s […]
Seven Farm-to-Table Experiences in Ontario Worth the Drive Toronto has spent decades importing the province’s harvest onto its restaurant tables — a movement chefs like Michael Stadtländer and Jamie Kennedy helped pioneer, proving that Ontario-grown ingredients could hold their own against imported prestige. These days, the trend has flipped. Rather than bring the farm to […]