Taste Test: Midtown offers some of the city’s top flapjacks
You don’t have to trek all the way downtown for the perfect pancake, Midtown offers some of the city’s top stacks.
Category: Food
Restaurant Review: The upscale Greek at Mamakas wows the palate off our critic
Mamakas is a bit atypical for the Ossington strip. The food is modernized trad Greek, and it’s very fine, more Byblos than Danforth.
Kitchen Confidential: Bar Fancy’s southern fried chicken lines up against Rose Reisman’s take
Chef Jon Poon’s trendy chicken also hits a home run with fat and sodium
Restaurant Review: Hanmoto has great bar food if you can handle the wait
Joanne Kates loves the bar food at Hanmoto but says you need a plan to avoid waiting.
Too Close to Call: CNE waffle warriors
The Ex’s original Hot Ice Cream Waffle takes on a Thanksgiving-inspired newcomer to determine who truly knows their grids. There’s no time for flip-flopping or mid way answers.
Taste Test: Grant van Gameren picks Toronto’s top hot dog
In a city that loves a classic hot dog, it’s easy to forget the gourmet goodies that are popping up across Toronto. So we invited our resident chef, Grant van Gameren, to taste T.O.’s finest franks. Which wiener wins the race? Find out here.
Food Crawl: Where to eat while checking out the revitalized Queen’s Quay strip
What was once lightly inhabited land is now on the up and up. Here’s where to nosh and sip in the new harbourfront
Restaurant Review: Boralia dishes out delicious O Canada cuisine
Joanne Kates reviews Boralia, the new restaurant that’s a nonstop ode to Canadiana
Food Crawl: Eat the Beach at Paralia, Xola and more!
Long summer days come in tandem with beachy jaunts: check out these local eateries and avoid packing a picnic
Taste Test: Our expert panel picks the best ice cream from all the wild flavours in Toronto
The city’s ice cream artisans are creating wild flavours far from vanilla. Our resident chef Grant van Gameren enlists chefs Brad Moore and Ian Kapitan of hot new eatery Old School to taste T.O.’s wackiest flavours.
Restaurant Review: Bar Raval aims to seduce us with its ode to Barcelona
Grant van Gameren’s new tapas bar, Bar Raval, is being lauded as Barcelona’s gift to Toronto. And it is. But life is complicated and Toronto isn’t Barcelona.
Restaurant Review: Don’t believe the hype for R&D, it’s not at all masterful
Alvin Leung and Eric Chong’s R&D on Spadina is all hype and no substance. Alvin Leung’s Bo Innovation in Hong Kong has three Michelin stars and Eric Chong was the winner of MasterChef Canada.