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Caroline Aksich

Caroline Aksich, a National Magazine Award recipient, is an ex-Montrealer who writes about Toronto’s ever-evolving food scene, real estate and culture for Toronto Life, Fodor’s, Designlines, Canadian Business, Glory Media and Post City. Her work ranges from features on octopus-hunting in the Adriatic to celebrity profiles.

Latest from Caroline Aksich

Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop

Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop

Name: Seven Lives Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 69 Kensington Ave., sevenlives.ca, @SevenLivesTO Owner and chef:...

Introducing: The Rude Boy, Roncesvalles’s new gourmet burger joint

Introducing: The Rude Boy, Roncesvalles’s new gourmet burger joint

Name: The Rude Boy Neighbourhood: Roncesvalles Contact info: 397 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-533-3269, @therudeboyronce Owners: Faiez...

Introducing: Northwood, a new Christie Pits café and cocktail bar

Introducing: Northwood, a new Christie Pits café and cocktail bar

Name: Northwood Neighbourhood: Christie Pits Contact info: 815 Bloor St. W., Facebook page, @NorthwoodBloor Owners: Richard Pope...

Gallery: 30 top Toronto chefs at FoodShare’s annual Recipe for Change fundraiser

Gallery: 30 top Toronto chefs at FoodShare’s annual Recipe for Change fundraiser

The north building at St. Lawrence Market was filled to near-bursting on Thursday as food-loving philanthropists gathered to...

Q&A: Guy Fieri on shooting Diners, Drive-ins and Dives in Toronto

Q&A: Guy Fieri on shooting Diners, Drive-ins and Dives in Toronto

Guy Fieri, the frosted-tipped host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives , hasn’t had a great month thanks to Pete Wells’ hilarious...

GALLERY: Guy Fieri presides over a roster of celeb chefs (and their fans) at this year’s Chef’s Challenge

GALLERY: Guy Fieri presides over a roster of celeb chefs (and their fans) at this year’s Chef’s Challenge

Saturday’s Chef’s Challenge was a chance for Iron Chef wannabes—or “masochists,” as event host Guy Fieri called...

Introducing: Fancy Franks, the new College Street spot for haute dogs

Introducing: Fancy Franks, the new College Street spot for haute dogs

A funny thing happened when Angelos Economopoulos opened Fancy Franks Gourmet Hot Dogs on College Street, with no prior...

Introducing: Indie Alehouse, the Junction’s long-awaited new brewpub

Introducing: Indie Alehouse, the Junction’s long-awaited new brewpub

Outside the Indie Alehouse, a new 4,000-square-foot brewpub in the Junction, there’s a banner from the local BIA that crows...

Introducing: Rakia Bar, a shiny new Queen East spot devoted to a traditional Balkan drink

Introducing: Rakia Bar, a shiny new Queen East spot devoted to a traditional Balkan drink

Serbian-Canadian Dušan Varga’ s Rakia Bar cannot be easily pigeonholed as an ethnic bar. Sure, you may hear Goran Bregović...

Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s new food truck, the roving home base of the rebel without a kitchen

Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s new food truck, the roving home base of the rebel without a kitchen

Matt Basile launched his Fidel Gastro’s business last year as a roving pop-up operation. Yesterday, for a crowd of 300 or so, he...

Introducing: the big new location of Sanagan’s Meat Locker, down the street from the old one

Introducing: the big new location of Sanagan’s Meat Locker, down the street from the old one

When Kensington Market's European Quality Meats and Sausages decided to leave the space it had occupied for five decades, many...

Introducing: Bridge and Bardot, Dundas West’s upcycling emporium

Introducing: Bridge and Bardot, Dundas West’s upcycling emporium

Although the name of Dundas West’s newest vintage boîte alludes to the 1960s French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, Bridge and...

Introducing: 417, the Danforth’s newest resto-lounge (from a longtime Greektown family)

Introducing: 417, the Danforth’s newest resto-lounge (from a longtime Greektown family)

After running the Danforth Foodland grocery store for 30 years, the Pavlou family began to notice the decline of their...

Introducing: Beer Academy, downtown’s new brewery, education centre and tasting room for hopheads

Introducing: Beer Academy, downtown’s new brewery, education centre and tasting room for hopheads

After Duggan’s shuttered its downtown brewpub last year, it felt as though the wind was knocked out of the sails of the...

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 9 to 15

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 9 to 15

Monday, July 9 Tuesday, July 10 Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, July 12 Friday, July 13 Saturday, July 14 Sunday, July 15 Farmers’...

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8

Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...

Introducing: Anice, where almost anything in the world can be fashioned into a piece of jewellery

Introducing: Anice, where almost anything in the world can be fashioned into a piece of jewellery

Anice, Brittany Hopkins’ s new jewellery boutique on the periphery of Kensington Market, is a modest 310-square-foot space with...

The Stop Night Market recap: the alley behind Honest Ed’s becomes a sweaty, delicious mess

The Stop Night Market recap: the alley behind Honest Ed’s becomes a sweaty, delicious mess

Last Wednesday, the Stop decided to throw a summer solstice party in the alley behind Honest Ed’s—the by-day parking lot was...

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 25 to July 1

Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 25 to July 1

Monday, June 25 Tuesday, June 26 Wednesday, June 27 Thursday, June 28 Friday, June 29 Saturday, June 30 Sunday, July 1 Farmers’...

Introducing: De la Mer, the Bayview fishmonger’s outpost on Roncesvalles

Introducing: De la Mer, the Bayview fishmonger’s outpost on Roncesvalles

“Would you like to enjoy an oyster while you browse?” De la Mer co-owner David Owen asks a tot-toting Roncesvalles mom, while...

Introducing: Smock Café, the new Roncesvalles spot for coffee, kids and crafting

Introducing: Smock Café, the new Roncesvalles spot for coffee, kids and crafting

One day prior to its opening a couple weeks back, a mosaic of pint-sized hand and nose prints adorned the glass front of...

The Stop’s first Beer Garden of 2012 brought out over 200 for Muskoka beer and Indonesian tacos

The Stop’s first Beer Garden of 2012 brought out over 200 for Muskoka beer and Indonesian tacos

Despite threatening clouds, over 200 hundred people gathered at Wychwood Barns No. 4 this past Sunday afternoon for this year’s...

An afternoon with Chuck Hughes and 19 excitable kids at The Stop’s after-school program

An afternoon with Chuck Hughes and 19 excitable kids at The Stop’s after-school program

Yesterday afternoon, Chuck Hughes took a break from promoting his new cookbook, Garde Manger, to join 19 eager kids in a cooking...

We induct 13 city style icons into Toronto Life’s best-dressed hall of fame

We induct 13 city style icons into Toronto Life’s best-dressed hall of fame

Only a mighty few rock a signature look for a lifetime. Introducing, from our inaugural Stylebook, 13 entries into Toronto Life’...

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Wines of the World

Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants

Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants

From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight

Big Stories

Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money

Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money

Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up

The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka

The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka

From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

It’s hard out here for a 20-something

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him

Just Listed

For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade

For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade

This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living