Kelly Bedard

One of the best things about Toronto’s culinary scene is its diversity. You can, without ever leaving the confines of the city, eat pretty much any global cuisine you can think of.   Here are a few notes from local places with international flavours that we’ve been able to sample recently.   Turkey: Nevizade Kitchen […]

  Kelly Bedard

Anyone who reads this site, and certainly if they follow me on social media, knows that I love Jeremy Jordan. He’s the bees knees of Broadway it-boys and the light of my Youtube algorithm. So when I realized he was playing the lead in the new Great Gatsby adaptation, and that it was having its […]

  Kelly Bedard

As Ontario-based theatre critics, we spent a lot of time in Stratford. Over the past decade and a half, we’ve tried a lot of places and developed a few habits. Here’s the low-down on where to go, what to get, and the places to avoid.   Our go-to in Stratford has always been Fosters Inn. […]

  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 […]

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 […]