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Food & Drink
“Cream cheese is the bonding agent of our community”: How bagels brought two branches of a Toronto family together
The latest chapter in a food-focused family saga that goes back to pre–Second World War Poland
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: St. Brigid’s Creamery, the Ontario-made gourmet butter Emerald Grasslands fans need to know about
Did someone say butter board?
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 10 best breakfast sandwiches to start the day off right, ranked
Our picks for the city's top fast-breaking, yolk-oozing creations
Food & Drink
Destination Dining: A painstakingly restored hotel in Prince Edward County with a former Le Sélect chef in the kitchen
We’re hitting the road and highlighting road-trip-worthy eats across the province
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Destination Dining: Top-notch barbecue in Muskoka from two Toronto fine-dining chefs
We're hitting the road and highlighting road-trip-worthy eats across the province
Food & Drink
“Toronto deserves a place on the world culinary map”: A Q&A with the head of the Michelin Guides on the city’s long-awaited restaurant list
It's finally happening (this fall)
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best bread right now
Our picks for the city's best boules, batards and baguettes
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Toronto’s best croissants
Our ranking of the most delicious, decadent, splurge-worthy specimens in the city
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Toronto’s best submarine sandwiches
Our favourite subs from Toronto’s best throwback delis, new and old
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best bowls of pasta
Our sauce-soaked ranking
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Toronto’s best holiday food and drink gifts
Our favourite Toronto-made treats from pandemic-born businesses
Food & Drink
Get your copy of
The City’s 100 Best Food Shops
right now
The special issue of
Toronto Life
is available to purchase online and on newsstands
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best burgers right now
Our artery-busting, deeply researched ranking of the city’s best burgers, from smash patty to veggie
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Toronto’s best tacos right now
Our favourites, from super-classic to ultra-trendy
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The summer’s best street food
Post-lockdown Toronto is basically one big outdoor buffet
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best pre-packed picnic baskets
For all of your al-fresco feast needs this summer
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How to make Jill Barber’s choco-charged cookies
Don't think too hard, just make them
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best pizza right now
Toronto in 2021 is teeming with excellent pizza options. What better time to rank the best of the best?
City
Hotels, restaurants, parks and other cool new attractions are coming to downtown
The first in our series on the post-pandemic downtown rebound
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Food & Drink
What to Eat Now: Toronto’s best new takeout experiences
How Toronto's restaurants are making our own four walls feel, if just for one meal, like the real thing
Food & Drink
What to Eat Now: Toronto’s brave new restaurants
What pandemic? These chefs and restaurateurs plowed ahead with their plans to open shiny new dining spaces
Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Uncle Mikey’s punchy peanut noodles at home
They’re chef Mikey Kim’s ode to a $2 dish from New York’s Lower East Side
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Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Dova’s Sicilian spin on cacio e pepe at home
Chef Roberto Marotta's creamy counterpoint to the preternaturally punchy pasta
Food & Drink
Fourteen of Toronto’s top coffee roasters, and the must-brew beans from each one
Here’s how to make the most of every cup with top beans from local roasters
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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Deep Dives
Small Space, Big Ambition: Twenty Torontonians embracing tiny living with small-footprint homes and space-saving hacks
From laneway homes to garden suites to houseboats, these creative living spaces offer style, affordability and comfort in a city where land is in short supply
Deep Dives
“I spent eight months locked up in an Ontario reform school. The abuse I endured almost destroyed me”
For 50 years, the Ontario government incarcerated kids accused of infractions as minor as truancy, drinking or shoplifting in so-called training schools
Deep Dives
The Mensch: Inside the culinary empire of Chinese-food king David Schwartz
The chef behind Mimi and Sunnys Chinese spent years mastering the cuisine of a culture not his own. Now, he’s risking it all to return to his roots
Deep Dives
Meeting Mr. Right: What a Pierre Poilievre election win could mean for Toronto
Anti-Trudeau sentiment has officially breached the GTA. But what does the alternative look like? Here, 12 prognosticators weigh in on the impact of a Poilievre government for Canada’s largest city
Deep Dives
Ontario’s health care system is in chaos, and these doctors and patients are fed up
Half a million Torontonians are without a primary care physician. The search is maddening, exhausting and often futile. Dispatches from the front lines
Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This accountant makes $76,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I haven’t bought an office lunch in two years”
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: $1.5 million for a loft off Gladstone that used to be a yarn factory
The 1,700-square-foot property comes with 18-foot ceilings, a fishbowl bedroom, a cobblestone lane and a private terrace
Real Estate
House of the Week: $8.5 million for an Etobicoke prairie home familiar to Netflix fans
The 6,300-square-foot property comes with a safe room, 30 skylights, 18 parking spots and a funky soaker tub in the main bedroom
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.4 million for a gated Summerhill semi overlooking a soccer pitch
The 3,500-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two underground parking spots, landscaping service and a fireplace on the roof
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.9 million for an enormous ex-schoolhouse near Trinity Bellwoods stuffed with stunning art
The 5,000-square-foot property comes with classroom layouts, an elevator, a kooky catwalk and skylights everywhere
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential