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TL Events
Here’s what went down at the
Toronto Life
Best Restaurants 2018 party at the Evergreen Brick Works
Twenty-three local restaurants brought their culinary vision to one over-the-top event
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Food & Drink
25 of Toronto’s best bars and restaurants for late-night eats
Where you can eat great when it's really, really, really late
Food & Drink
Here’s what to order at Toronto’s 20 best new restaurants
Toronto Life's food critic picks the most memorable dishes from 2017's best new restaurants.
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best new restaurants 2017
Our restaurant critic searched high and low for the city's most essential new eateries. Here's our annual ranking of the year's top tables
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Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
Food & Drink
These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
Food & Drink
19 of
Toronto Life’s
favourite places to eat in 2016
It's been a good year for food—and it's not over yet
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How Chantecler and Bar Begonia ditched trendiness and became 2016’s hippest hangouts
A year-end salute to the two trend-bucking restaurants that aim for something timeless
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The essential gear Toronto’s top chefs and bartenders can’t live without
A good pair of tweezers, a sexy strainer, Sharpies, and more of their current obsessions
Food & Drink
The 24 best sandwiches in Toronto right now
Two dozen of the city's tastiest handheld creations
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top 10 late-night snacks, and where to find them
Ten places in Toronto to eat really great, really late
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best new patios this summer
Because the season's too damn short to sit inside
Food & Drink
How to make Bar Begonia’s rye cocktail
Bar manager Oliver Stern shares the recipe for his O&A
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Canadian whiskey makes a comeback
Bar Begonia's Oliver Stern shares his favourite locally blended bottles
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top artisanal toasts
Eye-roll if you must, but it's still trending for a reason
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bar Begonia, Anthony Rose’s Parisian cocktail bar in the Annex
This is the sixth spot for Toronto's comfort-food king
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #33, Anthony Rose
Rose is Toronto’s restaurant oracle
Food & Drink
How Anthony Rose became Toronto’s comfort-food king
With five trendy spots (and another on the way), he's the Judd Apatow of our city's restaurant scene
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Anthony Rose’s Bar Begonia will open on Dupont
Anthony Rose' s sixth spot, Bar Begonia , will be located at 252 Dupont Street just steps away from his trio of Annex...
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Queen West is getting a Rose and Sons
Anthony Rose is at it again, but this time he's moving away from the empire he's set up on Dupont. His new spot will be in the...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
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
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
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