After four months, 12 towns, and 98 productions, our most ambitious summer of theatre coverage came to an end in Gananoque. With good food, cute accommodation options, fun tourist activities, and one of the best single-production showings we saw from any company on the Ontario Theatre Tour, our last stop might be remembered as our […]

  Kelly Bedard

Click Here to follow along on our Ontario Theatre Tour as we explore the communities and companies outside of the city that we’ve never encountered before.   One of the great treats on the Ontario Theatre Tour thus far has been visiting the Blyth Festival. Not only is their outdoor venue one of the most beautiful […]

  Kelly Bedard

Don’t miss the rest of this series HERE. In this instalment I’ll walk you through how I usually approach eating in New York City following my personal philosophy of embracing the cliché.   I usually fly out on a Friday after work so, by the time I get to the city, it’s pretty late. But, […]

  Kelly Bedard

In the slowly arriving East Toronto neighbourhood of Corktown, the opening of a new restaurant is somehow simultaneously common and thrilling. New establishments open on the PanAm-developed blocks between the distillery and the don river all the time- a pricey 24hr convenience store is the newest acquisition; before that, a furniture company inexplicably opened offices […]

  Kelly Bedard

I live in Toronto, a great city where I’m very sad to report it’s outlandishly difficult to find a good bowl of seafood chowder. I went to school in Boston, so it’s possible I’m spoiled, but the fact remains that Toronto really ought to step up their game in this particular department. Seafood in general […]

Michelin-starred chef Akira Back’s second Toronto restaurant is the perfect elevated eatery for Chinese food connoisseurs and newbies alike. A global ambassador for Asian cuisine, Korean-born Back has followed up his eponymous Bisha Hotel Japanese joint with a tribute to all things Chinese, offering a huge range of dishes inspired by the sprawling diversity of […]

  Kelly Bedard

I can’t stay awake at the theatre if I don’t eat first but it’s sometimes hard to figure out where to go, especially if you’re not super familiar with the area the theatre is in. So I headed to Taste of Toronto over the summer to get the lay of the local culinary land and […]