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Bakeries
Food & Drink
A New York bakery with a cult following is coming to Canada
Magnolia is bringing its cupcakes and banana pudding north of the border
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How two pastry chefs turned a Vaughan industrial unit into a destination for croissants
The story behind Bartholomew Bakery
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The heartwarming story behind Scarborough’s sort-of-secret pie stand
How a field service engineer became a one-man baking operation
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Beloved bakery Patachou is back (sort of)
Croquembouche is already buttering up the Danforth
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This is what’s replacing Glory Hole Doughnuts in Leslieville
Jupiter Bakehouse has some big baked-goods shoes to fill
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This hyper-local bakery in Cambridge uses almost nothing but Canadian ingredients, right down to the salt
That means no vanilla, no chocolate and no citrus
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An award-winning pastry chef is opening his own shop this fall
Steven Tran Pâtissier Chocolatier is coming to Roncesvalles
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Sort-of Secret: Alice Marie, a new Leslieville bakery and coffee shop with a cult following
Pastry chef Rachelle Cornish left her post at Michelin-recommended White Lily Diner to open this sweet spot
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Sort-of Secret: Tatin Bakehouse, a French bakery in Oakville with a Michelin connection
Pastry chef Lili Linda left her post at Hexagon to open her own pâtisserie
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“Dough is in my DNA”: How the grandson of Toronto baker Dave Silverstein found his true calling
Ryan Silverstein on opening Le Petit Pain, a French bakery in Forest Hill
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“Pastry helped me embrace my queerness”: How chef Jayden Park baked his way to self-acceptance
His new bakery, Gateau Ghost, opens this week
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Better Days, a new Dovercourt Village bakery, is bringing back classic Canadian doughnuts
And pairing everything with nothing but good old fashioned drip coffee
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What’s on the menu at Issho Bakery, Riverdale’s new place for coffee and Japanese-inspired desserts
Including milk chocolate matcha cookies, miso marshmallow squares and kimchi scones
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Sort-of Secret: Nutmeg Spiced, a one-woman micro-bakery in Oakwood Village making exclusively Grenadian desserts
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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“I went viral within the hour”: This Toronto bake shop owner turned to TikTok and her business boomed
“I posted a reel right before I went to the gym. By the time my session was done, it was viral”
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Sort-of Secret: Castle and Coal, a petite patisserie with all-dessert tasting menus
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Seven of Toronto’s best new microbakeries
Including one that makes adorable smiley face bread
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Toronto’s best bread right now
Our picks for the city's best boules, batards and baguettes
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Toronto’s best bakeries
Our favourite places to stock up on boules, baguettes, batards and all loaves in between
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What’s on the takeout menu at Emmer, a new bakery in Harbord Village that was three years in the making
Ready, set, carbo-load
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What’s on the takeout menu of Barbershop Patisserie, Jill Barber’s new puff pastry palace
Because butter is better
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Sort-of Secret: Breadhead, a one-woman bakery selling sourdough bread, croissants, cinnamon buns and doughnuts
When the kitchen pastry chef Lucy Kirby was hired to work in closed, she started her own
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What’s on the menu at Brodflour, a new bakery in Liberty Village that mills its own flours
Including fancy toast
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Inside Daan Go, Kensington Market’s new pastry lab that makes cute-as-a-button baked goods
Including these adorable edible terrariums
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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
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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
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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
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