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Food & Drink
Cheese Boutique made a custom order for Martha Stewart
No pressure!
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Food & Drink
You can eat cheese in the name of charity this weekend
Cheese Boutique is donating an entire day’s sales to a good cause
Culture
Yes, that was Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively at the Muskoka Drive-In
Talk about a movie with the stars
Food & Drink
The Cheese Boutique is throwing a CNE-style street party next month
Complete with bouncy castles, fireworks and lots of food
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Style
Real Weddings: Inside a wintry celebration at Prime Seafood Palace
Featuring a walk in the snow, a cheese-wheel cake and a cameo by Matty Matheson
Food & Drink
“I would absolutely hate to see it close”: Toronto chefs on their favourite (older) restaurants
And what their go-to orders are at each
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Afrim Pristine, the co-owner of Cheese Boutique
Stocked with Philadelphia dips, candy and—you guessed it—a ton of cheese
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City News
Toronto’s first family of cheese
The Pristine family own the iconic Cheese Boutique, and they have big plans for the near future
Food & Drink
Cheese Boutique’s food truck is hosting Toronto’s top chefs for parking lot pop-ups
If you park it, they will come
Culture
What notable Torontonians are watching, reading and listening to this fall
Pop culture recommendations from Aurora James, Cheryl Hickey, Afrim Pristine, Dani Reiss, Richard Florida and more
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Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: How Cheese Boutique owner Afrim Pristine makes his not-too-saucy stromboli
Follow along at home
Food & Drink
Toronto chefs and restaurateurs on what they hope to see more (or less) of in 2020
“I would love for people to stop thinking Instagram is the be all and end all”
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their go-to neighbourhood restaurants and all-time favourite dishes
Spoiler alert: Edulis is pretty popular
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You bid $9,000 in a charity auction for a star-studded private dinner at your house. Here’s what you’re getting
The splurge benefitted Project Sunshine, which works to enrich the lives of children undergoing medical treatment in hospitals and care centres worldwide
Food & Drink
How to get great wine delivered to your door (and a year of
Toronto Life
for free, too)
Because nothing goes better with a top-notch bottle than a really great read
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Sash Simpson, the executive chef of North 44
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: frozen pierogies, instant noodles and crap ton of caviar
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What was served at The Dinner Party, a 30-chef affair with three seven-course meals
Wait 'til you see the dishes
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Charlie’s Burgers founder Franco Stalteri
A few of the things it's stocked with: foie gras, gelato and a whole bunch of bubbly
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of One’s pastry chef and chef de cuisine
A few things their kitchen is stocked with: champagne, homemade Jamaican patties and a ham pillow
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Say cheese: Toronto heavyweights Afrim Pristine and Mark McEwan are teaming up
Praise cheeses!
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of chef and restaurateur Grant van Gameren
A few of the things it's stocked with: meat, canned fish and lots of mescal
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of the Tempered Room’s pastry chef Bertrand Alépée
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, candy, coconut bacon and a bunch of butter
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Q&A: The Drake’s Ted Corrado on this weekend’s hockey game that pits Toronto’s top chefs against Montreal’s
"We’re actually having our first practice tomorrow morning to see who can skate"
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh
Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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