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T.O.'s Best Sandwiches

Toronto’s Best Sandwiches: the vegetarian-friendly burger from Bombay Chowpatty

Located amid Little India’s swarm of sari shops, Bombay Chowpatty is one part video-rental shop, one part eatery. Named after Mumbai’s most beloved beach, the restaurant dishes out street-style...

Karolyne Ellacott

Toronto’s Best Sandwiches: the smoked salmon and cream cheese croissant from Nadège Patisserie

Now that spring has finally, yes, sprung, packs of hipsters are hitting the park scene hard. Trinity Bellwoods is particularly rife with them: nonchalant girls decked out in stripes sip Bellwoods...

Karolyne Ellacott

Toronto’s Best Sandwiches: The Harbord Room’s beef brisket burger

Sons, daughters and husbands the city over are busy scrambling to get their acts together in time for the ultimate celebration of mom. With Mother’s Day chocolates and flowers feeling a bit like...

Karolyne Ellacott

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T.O. Taste Test

T.O.’s best coconut cream pie

As part of our comedy issue, and in a tribute to the classic comedic gag, we took a look at some of the GTA’s top coconut cream pies. Herewith, chef Grant van Gameren declares a winner in our city-wide pie competition.

T.O.’s best Caesar salad

With the Ides of March upon us, chef Grant van Gameren stepped away from preparing for his hotly anticipated restaurant opening long enough to sample our area’s best Caesar salads.

T.O.’s best spaghetti and meatballs

Top Toronto chef Grant van Gameren tucks into the GTA’s best spaghetti and meatballs, the classic old-school Italian comfort food.

T.O.’s best Peking duck

We rounded up the GTA’s options for a Peking duck feast and asked Bar Isabel chef, Grant van Gameren to tell us which duck is most delicious

The bowled and the beautiful

The Spanish certainly know the best ways to combat the heat — siestas, sangria and, of course, cool, refreshing gazpacho. We rounded up the city’s takes on the traditional cold soup and asked star chef Chris McDonald of Cava to tell us which is tops.

Toronto's Tastiest Fried Chicken

Crunchy, spicy, succulent and delicious fried chicken is a dish that’s perfect for eating outdoors in summer. We called in David Neinstein, chef at hot Southern BBQ spot Barque, to sample eight takes on this old favourite and pick Toronto’s tastiest fried chicken.

Toronto's Best Butcher Shop Steaks

We asked Rob Rossi (chef at Bestellen and former Top Chef contestant) to pick the top cuts from the GTA’s happiest and healthiest herds.

Toronto's Best Taco

Mexican food has never been hotter — or better — in Toronto. Just in time for the annual celebration of Mexican heritage, spicy food connoisseur and host of Everyday Exotic and Heat Seekers on Food Network, Roger Mooking, tells us which of the city’s tacos is tops.

Toronto's Best Hot Dog

It’s time to (literally) raise the roof at the Rogers Centre this month, and celebrate the Blue Jays’ home opener; in honour of this occasion, we called upon deli king Zane Caplansky to help us find the GTA’s best ballpark-worthy hot dogs.

Toronto's Best Cannoli

Not all cannoli are created equal: from the disappointingly soggy to the delectably crispy and creamy, Italo-Canadian Rob Gentile sorts the best from the rest and declares a winner

Toronto's Best Grilled Cheese

What happens when this gregarious chef sits down to a table strewn with new wave gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches? He chooses the old-school, triple-decker diner classic, of course.

Toronto's Best Gnocchi

Scott Conant, of Scarpetta Restaurant, samples the city’s top gnocchi.

Toronto's Best Cookies

Top chef and Food Network star Anna Olson is an expert in all things baked. In the spirit of the holidays, we invited her to help us nibble our way through dozens (upon dozens) of cookies — tough job, but someone had to do it! Read on for Olson’s sweetest selections.