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NEWS 

Back to romance at our local restaurants

February 8, 2023February 26, 2023 Andrea Freedman dining, restaurants, Valentine's Day

This Valentine’s Day, people can celebrate their love as they did before the pandemic with special dinners at restaurants throughout the city.

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Winterlicious dinners at Il Fornello
Dining THINGS TO DO 

Jan. 27: Winterlicious Toronto returns

January 20, 2023January 28, 2023 Streeter staff dining, restaurants, Winterlicious

Winterlicious is back for the fist time since the pandemic with prix fixe lunches and dinners across Toronto.

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Winterlicious food
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Midtown eateries in midst of Winterlicious boom

February 4, 2020November 24, 2020 Rodger Burnside dining, Mt. Pleasant Road, restaurant, St. Clair Avenue, Winterlicious, Yonge Street

Winterlicious comes at the perfect time every year — just when dining out would otherwise take a dip, midtown’s participating restaurants say.

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7 Numbers owner ready for Winterlicious
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East-end eateries thrive during Winterlicious

January 24, 2020February 10, 2020 Rodger Burnside 7 Numbers Danforth, Bayview Avenue, Danforth Avenue, dining, Gerrard Street East, Kingston Road, O'Connor Drive, Queen Street East, restaurants, Winterlicious

More than 200 restaurants are hosting Winterlicious with about 20 of them in the east end including Riverdale, East York, Leslieville and Beaches.

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Indian Street Food dish
Food & Dining 

Heavenly street food

May 5, 2016February 24, 2018 Liz Campbell Bayview Avenue, dining, ndian Street Food Company

I had been looking forward to visiting Indian Street Food Company. I love Hemant Bhagwani’s idea of bringing to life in chilly Toronto the hot flavours of his Indian childhood.

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Food & Dining 

Familiar chef opens kitchen on Mt. Pleasant

January 5, 2016January 22, 2016 Liz Campbell Boland's Open Kitchen, dining, food, review

Who’s cooking? That’s my first thought when Chris Boland amiably greets us at our table. This is, after all, Boland’s Open Kitchen. But he’s here to tell us about what’s really good on the menu tonight, and he begins with an apology.

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Food & Dining 

The Homeway is like taking a step back in time

October 1, 2015October 2, 2017 Liz Campbell dining, food, review, The Homeway

Although it first opened in 1948, I wish I could have seen The Homeway Soda Bar back in the 1960s.

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Business 

At-home caterer uses your kitchen

November 11, 2013June 21, 2014 Ann Ruppenstein Ben Zittell, cooking, dining, The Food Netwok

Before launching his own cooking company, Ben Zittell was asked to cater a party for his friend’s parents.

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NEWS 

Artful midtown eatery overdoes it

September 3, 2013 Town Crier staff dining, restaurant, review

Sometime in its eight months of existence, this midtown spot has morphed into The Artisan Bistro & Bakery. But the test is how chef Bruno Beaudoin fares with meat and veg.

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Food & Dining 

Chef’s gold medal level cuisine

February 6, 2013June 8, 2014 Eric Emin Wood Barry Chaim, dining, EDO, food, Ryo Ozawa, World Culinary Olympics

EDO’s executive chef Ryo Ozawa takes high honours at World Culinary Olympics

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Business 

A homemade meal when you need it

June 14, 2012 Town Crier staff dining, food, Victoria Fodor, Victoria's Kitchen

A friend’s request led to tasty business opportunity for Victoria Fodor

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Business 

No longer a veggie secret

February 22, 2012 Town Crier staff dining, food, Marie Crawford, Pulp Kitchen, Restaruant, Vegetarian

Resto started out not telling patrons it was vegetarian

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Business 

Don't shoot the actors

December 15, 2011 Town Crier staff Brian Caws, dining, food, Lili Caws, Mysteriously Yours Dinner Theatre, Mystery Dinner Theatre, theatre, Whodunit

Mystery dinner theatre mixes popular spoofs with whodunit

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NEWS 

Restaurant says neigh to horse meat

July 6, 2011 Town Crier staff dining, Fine Dining, Horsemeat, Terroni Bar Centrale

Terroni’s Bar Centrale pulls controversial dish from menu

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NEWS 

Resto owner blames closure on city

July 6, 2011 Town Crier staff dining, Onassis Pizzeria, Pizza

Accessibility renovations, tough business too much for Onassis Pizzeria

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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