Biggs Ribs has built a serious following in Brampton on the strength of one simple metric: volume. The halal barbecue restaurant reportedly goes through 200 racks of beef ribs every single week, a number that speaks to just how dialed-in the operation has become. That kind of consistent, high-volume output doesn’t happen by accident — […]
Chef Elia Herrera Returns to Toronto With a New St. Lawrence Market Spot A well-regarded name in Toronto’s Mexican food scene is making a return to the city, this time setting up shop in one of its most storied food destinations. Acclaimed third-generation Mexican chef Elia Herrera is expanding her Toronto footprint with Tecolote Market, […]
Toronto’s First Pay-by-Weight Tiramisu Shop Is Here — And You Can Mix Every Flavour Tiramisu has had a real moment in Toronto over the past couple of years, with dedicated shops springing up across the city to lean into the dessert’s rich, coffee-forward appeal. The newest entry, though, is doing something the format hasn’t really […]
Fat Zhu Noodle Lab: Six Seats, One Wonton Master, Zero Compromises Scoring a table at Wonton Hut, Toronto’s most beloved wonton spot, is already a challenge on a good night. Chef Eddie Yeung has just made it considerably harder — but for a genuinely interesting reason. Fat Zhu Noodle Lab, Yeung’s new North York offshoot, […]
One Woman Owns an Alarming Share of Your Favourite Toronto Restaurants It’s a moment plenty of Toronto diners have apparently had recently: scrolling back through months of restaurant photos, only to realize an outsized share of their favourite recent meals all trace back to the same person. Most of Toronto’s biggest restaurant names have built […]
Ambica Jain Is Bringing a Different Kind of Restaurant to Bay Street Bay Street’s fine dining scene has long run on a fairly predictable playbook — power lunches, red meat, bottle service, and ownership that’s overwhelmingly male. Ambica Jain is betting that Toronto’s Financial District is ready for something else. Jain, the restaurateur behind Yorkville’s […]
Good Brother Chinese Barbecue has set up shop in Thornhill with a concept built for lingering: open-air skewer grilling, a late-night kitchen, and a setting designed to keep the party going well past when most restaurants have closed up for the night. The format draws on Chinese barbecue traditions that have become increasingly popular across […]
Nile Coffee Club Is a Cafe by Day, a Club House by Night — and Little Portugal Can’t Get Enough By day, Nile Coffee Club reads like any other neighbourhood café — specialty coffee, a laptop-friendly room, the kind of place you’d walk past without a second thought. Once the sun goes down, though, the […]
Mambo Italiano is taking on a genuinely ambitious culinary challenge: reimagining classic Italian cuisine as a fully halal menu, without sacrificing the richness and technique that define the cuisine in the first place. Traditional Italian cooking leans heavily on pork products — prosciutto, guanciale, pancetta — making a fully halal Italian menu a real test […]
Late-night food options in Toronto tend to skew toward pizza, shawarma, or fast food, so a dedicated gnocchi spot staying open into the small hours is a genuinely rare addition to the city’s after-dark dining scene. Via Gnocchi has built its entire concept around a single, tightly focused idea: affordable, quality gnocchi, served fast and […]