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 […]
A Chef’s Guide to Eating Like a Local in Prince Edward County Prince Edward County has spent the last decade building a reputation as one of Ontario’s great weekend escapes — a place where vineyards roll down toward Lake Ontario and farm-to-table tasting menus have become the norm rather than the exception. But ask someone […]
Don’s Bakery Is Back — Thanks to a 24-Year-Old Who Grew Up Behind the Counter Some businesses are so woven into a region’s identity that their closure feels less like a business story and more like a death in the family. That’s roughly the reaction Muskoka had this spring when word spread that Don’s Bakery […]
The Grape Witches are marking peak tomato season with a party built entirely around celebrating the fruit at its absolute best — and the centrepiece is a sandwich stretching a full four feet long. Tackling a sandwich of that scale is inherently a group activity, which is exactly the point: the event is designed as […]