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Bar Buca
Food & Drink
Inside the rise and fall of the Buca empire
For years, Buca was the place to go for glitzy, big-ticket nights out. How did the company wind up $35 million in debt?
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Food & Drink
A globe-spanning guide to Toronto’s best international brunches
A baker’s dozen of brunch plates worth lining up for
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Toronto’s best Italian restaurants
Toronto Life's favourite places to carbo-load
Created for
American Express
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Toronto’s best happy hours
Our favourites places for discounted drinks
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Food & Drink
Where chef Kshitiz Sethi eats butter chicken, pizza Pugliese and pav bhaji fondue in Midtown and North York
The Paese chef takes us to three of his favourite spots
Food & Drink
Where to eat, drink—and yes, spot celebs—during TIFF
20 places to potentially rub elbows with the stars
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15 of our favourite restaurants and bars perfect for last-minute Valentine’s Day dates
No reservations required
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15 new restaurants to check out right now
Where to eat house-made sausages, stuffed chicken wings, gnocchi poutine, vegan pizza and more
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Buca, Rob Gentile’s new all-day spot at Yonge and Eglinton
Hope you're hungry, midtown
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The best restaurants on King West right now
Our favourite restaurants along the King-Adelaide corridor
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Stuart Cameron, executive chef of Byblos, Patria and the brand-new Mira
A few of the things it's stocked with: pisco, chorizo, frozen pizza and Vegemite
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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
Toronto is getting two more Buca restaurants
Get ready, midtown
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
Food & Drink
13 of our favourite brunch spots in Toronto right now
We're going way beyond eggs Benny for this list of the city's best mid-morning meals
Food & Drink
Buca is expanding to the 905
Get ready, Vaughan
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Food & Drink
11 of Toronto’s most bonkers breakfast sandwiches
The most insane morning meals between sliced bread (or brioche, or doughnuts, or fried chicken thighs)
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
Life
Real Weddings 2016: Inside Buca chef Rob Gentile and wife Audrey’s rustic celebration at the Burroughes Building
Spoiler alert: the food was amazing
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Buca’s executive chef Rob Gentile
A few of the things it's stocked with: champagne, homemade turkey chili and a ton of olives
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
Eight ways to eat heart in Toronto on Valentine’s Day
This weekend, treat someone special to chicken (or duck or horse or bison) ticker
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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UberEATS is now in Toronto and delivering lunch downtown (in 10 minutes or less)
Starting May 14 (that's today), Torontonians have another meal delivery service at their fingertips: UberEATS , a lunch service...
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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
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
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!”
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