When it comes to this summer backyard favourite, McEwan says the selection is key — you want a variety of meats, a terrine or pâté en croûte, one cheese for contrast, the perfect bread and a fruit component.

Joanne Kates on five delicious joints that will change the way you dine.

We asked chef David Lee, the brains behind Yorkville’s hottest new restaurant, Planta, to help us find the best slice in the city. Who takes the cake?

Toronto’s first lady of French pastry, chef Nadège Nourian, took on the task of tasting the city’s most popular Thanksgiving dessert, pumpkin pies.

From butcher shops to sushi, these are our midtown Toronto picks for food and drink in 2016.

Hogtown has a soft spot for burgers from the classic to the creative. So we enlisted chef Roger Mooking to taste the city’s best beef patties with wild toppings. The fusion of flavours between these buns takes these burgers to the next level.

Need a head start on the CNE? Chef Anthony Rose has you covered.

T.O.’s frozen treat purveyors are dishing out wild and wacky creations for everything from soft serve to frozen sandwiches. We invited chef Cory Vitiello of the Harbord Room, Flock and the TV series Chef In Your Ear to taste these over-the-top sammies and find out who has the cream of the crop.

Whose bangers are the best? Find out here.

From sashimi to tea, the complete guide to Japanese food in Toronto

The pendulum has swung in the other direction and Toronto’s hotel restaurants are having a second golden age. Here are the seven best options.

Here are the results of my hunt: The 10 best sushi in the GTA and the hot spots that serve them.

The best butter chicken in Toronto combines the trifecta of flavour; sweet, salt and savoury- detectable notes of aromatic spices, with loose ties to the original recipe, said to have hailed from the Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi, India.

A good butcher is worth their weight in gold- offering superior meats as well as advice and suggestions.

We've rounded up our top places to enjoy pho and other Vietnamese fare

A year-round comfort food, dumplings are a welcome appetizer or main course, whether for an evening out or weekend brunch.

This month we asked world-renowned French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud to sample Toronto’s finest remixes of the Québécois classic at his recently reinvented Café Boulud.

Toronto has become one of the country's best spots for cheese lovers to call home. That's largely thanks to a generation of passionate entrepreneurs who have opened speciality cheese shops in the city to offer a selection of the best international cheese and increasingly world class Canadian ones as well.

With numerous options around the city, there’s no need to stop the tradition, with these candy shops devoted to sweet treats.

You can travel the world by eating through Scarborough –- Filipino, Malaysian, Caribbean, Vietnamese –- its all represented here and in spades compared to downtown Toronto.