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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Pho Le, a Michelin-awarded restaurant that specializes in southern Vietnamese pho
The chain’s first-ever non-Asian outpost graces Richmond Hill
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What’s on the menu at Ramona’s, a new cocktail and snack bar on Queen West
Inspired by Pacific coastal culture, the space is open from morning coffee to nightcap
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Inside the new 10,000-square-foot Eataly at the Shops at Don Mills
Toronto’s third location of the Italian emporium is now open
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Pia, a monthly Mediterranean and Indian fusion pop-up
Think arancini stuffed with spiced chicken biryani
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What’s on the menu at Leslie’s Sandwich Room, Leslieville’s new spot for heaping house-made sammies
Plus kettle chips flavoured in house with everything from ketchup to peanut butter
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What’s on the menu at Takja BBQ House, a Korean barbecue restaurant unlike any other in Toronto
This is no DIY affair
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Sort-of Secret: Panificio Bruno, an Italian home bakery turning out just 20 loaves of focaccia a week
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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What’s on the menu at Arbequina, a new halal, alcohol-free restaurant on Roncesvalles
Including many thoughtful zero-proof cocktails
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What’s on the menu at Azura, a new Mediterranean restaurant on the Danforth serving blind tasting menus
No two menus are the same
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What’s on the menu at Mossop’s Social House, Hotel Victoria’s Levantine-inspired restaurant, cocktail bar and café
Tomer Markovitz of Romi’s Bakery was the consulting chef
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This is Toronto’s hottest new destination for steak sandwiches
Bear Steak Sandwiches has been attracting lineups since it opened in November
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What’s on the menu at Chambers, a swanky new steakhouse and supper club with a rooftop patio, valet parking and a baby grand piano
It’s in the old Consumers’ Gas building
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The best cheap eats in Toronto, according to the city’s chefs
Including $3 barbecue pork buns and $4 Jamaican patties
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What’s on the menu at the Fall Bright Tavern, a homey new spot in Christie Pits with out-of-this-world chocolate cake
And something called “olive roulette”
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What’s on the menu at Doc’s Green Door Lounge, a gorgeous new cocktail bar in the Junction
Featuring a build-your-own martini menu
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What’s on the menu at Rhapsody, a new bar on Ossington for Nikkei cuisine and cocktails
It's from the owner of Little Italy's Mrs. Robinson
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What’s on the menu at Bar Notte, a St. Lawrence cocktail lounge serving Italian drinks and snacks until 2 a.m.
Including tartare-stuffed cannoli
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What’s on the menu at the recently revamped Old York Tavern
The 50-year-old spot now skews French
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What’s on the menu at St. Thomas, Yorkville’s new restaurant for tapas and wine-pairing dinners
It’s the sister spot to the Michelin-starred Enigma
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What’s on the menu at Sushi Yugen, a new restaurant in the Financial District with two omakase menus
“It’s a sanctuary where people can disconnect from urban life"
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What’s on the menu at Mhel, Bloorcourt’s new spot for Japanese-Korean small plates and sake
Mhel means anchovy
Food & Drink
Inside Soul Chocolate’s new east-end factory and café
Read on to see how chocolate chips are born
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Sort-of Secret: Jeudr3di, maybe the coolest supper club in Toronto right now
One end-of-summer dinner started with a very interesting amuse bouche
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What’s on the menu at the Rosebud, a new wine bar in Corktown
It’s from the team behind Mira Mira Diner
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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
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
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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
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
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
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
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
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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 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”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
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
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House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
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House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over