‘Tis the season for Wagyu, which means Nota Bene’s Wagyu burger – as popular as it is expensive – is back on the menu. To promote it, the restaurant is offering a $10 donation to the Japanese Red Cross Society for every $45 purchase of a burger and pint of Sapporo combo. Debauchery never seemed so virtuous.
Proving that it’s not just about granola, The Green Living Show, Canada’s largest green consumer show, is partnering with Fashion Takes Action for the first time to host the Emerging Designers Boutique, featuring eco-conscious, high-end clothing. The eco-fashion event takes place April 15-17 at Exhibition Place. Below, we highlight some of the designers who will be selling their eco-wears and where you can buy them after the event has come to a close.
With its concentration of high-end restaurants like Centro, North 44 and Blue Zen, the Yonge Street strip just north of Eglinton isn’t exactly known as a haven for casual dining. Which is exactly why husband and wife entrepreneurs Robert Lewocz and Samara Melanson set up Uncle Betty’s diner, where enjoying food doesn’t mean having to get dressed up.
For several years now, The Room has been playing to packed movie houses around the world. The Royal has been screening it regularly since 2009. A Rocky Horror Picture Show for the hipster generation, it’s about as popular as a cult movie can be without becoming mainstream. But The Room’s legions of fans aren’t flocking to see it out of admiration. By nearly all accounts, this is a film that’s confoundingly, awesomely, hilariously bad.
If you’d been texting with a friend or fretting about pending disasters just before stepping through the doors at 1 Balmoral Ave., you might not have realized that Terroni was gone and that Divino, a new Italian trattoria, had set up shop in its place. (Big shoes to fill. Big shoes.)
For those fashionistas who are disappointed that Toronto’s LG Fashion Week is over, don’t despair: the Toronto Fashion Incubator is holding the finale of its New Labels Fashion Design competition this Thursday at Design Exchange. The nationwide competition, which kicked off in the fall, features the hottest up-and-coming designers in Canada and concludes with this runway competition of the top three finalists.
Toronto’s hotel restaurant scene is on the upswing these days with the likes of Scarpetta and TOCA, and Hotel Le Germain is hoping its restaurant, Victor, can keep up. The restaurant recently underwent a major redesign, and a new tasting menu features a rotating selection of seven dishes ($14 each) that each represent a different part of Toronto. Executive Chef David Chystian picked out four items and broke them down for us.
Snails move slowly, and Toronto’s legendary comic book store, Silver Snail, has been tucked into its shell at 367 Queen Street West for almost three decades. But, to quote Snail customer Bob Dylan, “the times, they are a-changin,’” and the shop has decided to make tracks elsewhere, The Star reports.
Last week, The Bay introduced another Canadian exclusive: the Diane von Furstenberg Home Collection. The U.S. fashion designer who gave us the iconic wrap dress is now bringing her colourful and bold prints to the kitchen and bedroom.
Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank got some much-needed help on Friday from Bruce Woods of Brassaii and Tom Brodi of TOCA, who competed against each other in a friendly cook-off to raise awareness about Toronto’s need for donations of nutritious food. The chefs had just 30 minutes to improvise a recipe using food bank-type ingredients (like canned food) that were revealed to them moments before they began cooking.
The Harlem Globetrotters are in town tonight and tomorrow, including the deft dribbler Herb “Flight Time” Lang. We chatted with him about basketball, his participation in reality shows like The Amazing Race, and the new four-point shot.
Alex Cuba was born into a musical family in Artemis, Cuba, just outside of Havana. He played percussion on TV as a child and remembers the feeling well. It’s the one he still gets just before he goes onstage. Hot on the heels of a recent Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Pop Album and with a growing legion of fans, Cuba is no longer a kid taking his first performance steps. He’s a hot commodity around the world with a huge Next Big Thing sign stuck in his sizable, trademark Afro.
