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Twelve of Toronto’s best new happy hours
Where to find cheap drinks and snacks every day of the week
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The best ways to buy wine in Toronto
These bottle shops and wine delivery services offer all the benefits of the LCBO and more
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What’s on the menu at Bottega Volo, Bar Volo’s one-stop shop inside the Royal Theatre—now with sandwiches, cocktails and a patio
Best theatre concession stand ever
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“It’s like starting from scratch again”: How six Toronto restaurateurs are planning to reopen for Stage 2
Toronto restaurants can start serving patrons on their patios today
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Toronto bars and restaurants selling barbecue, charcuterie, booze and produce boxes at takeout windows and street-side markets
Also: larb, sake, Thai smoothies, wine and two-minute dance parties
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Rare wines, bottled cocktails and other drinks you can order from Toronto bars and restaurants right now
Start stocking up for all your virtual happy hours
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“I’m contemplating taking a second mortgage out on my home”: How restaurateurs are dealing with the pivot to takeout and delivery
We spoke with some bar and restaurant owners to see how they’re coping.
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What’s on the menu at Bar Volo, the new location of Toronto’s favourite craft-beer bar
It's a stone's throw from the original bar
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Bar Volo is back. Here are seven things you need to know
It's officially open now, less than 200 metres from the original location
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Birreria Volo is home to Toronto’s wild ale boom—and the city’s funkiest beer list
Let's get funky
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What’s on the menu at Birreria Volo, a new beer hall from the owners of Bar Volo
When one great bar closes, another one opens
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The 15 best beer lists in Toronto right now
A bunch of bars to fill the Bar Volo void
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What’s on the menu at P.G. Clucks, a spicy fried chicken shack in Little Italy
Who feels like chicken tonight?
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Bar Volo, Toronto’s original craft beer mecca, is closing
The last pints will be poured this September
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The owners of Bar Volo are opening another craft beer destination in Little Italy
But it won't just be another Bar Volo
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Don’t miss last call at Cask Days, the king of beer fests
Back in the mid-2000s, the folks at Bar Volo began a small-batch beer event on their patio and called it Cask Days . The...
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Late-Night Food: Toronto’s 15 Best Snack Bars Open After 11 p.m.
Not long ago, late-night food in Toronto was served by a small culinary cartel: fast-food restaurants, fluorescent-lit noodle...
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Bourbon, bluegrass and barrel-aged beers at Toronto’s inaugural Bourbon Week
In the last year or two, bourbon has stealthily inundated the city’s most fashionable cocktail lists, replacing cosmos and...
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We Live for the Funk: Bar Volo celebrates sour beers and funky tunes on September 14
Sour beer may sound off-putting, but discriminating beer geeks know better: the specialty ales, which get their characteristic...
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IPA Challenge returns to Bar Volo next month
Bar Volo’ s annual IPA Challenge is sort of like March Madness, except that it takes place in May and involves hoppy craft beers...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Top Chefs and Bieber power
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: The Valentine’s madness edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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Introducing: Room 203, Guy Rawlings’ new food event space
Room 203 is the latest project from chef Guy Rawlings, who first gained notoriety at Brockton General before taking on consulting...
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Bar Volo reopens today with double the taps and a refreshed menu by Guy Rawlings
The Yonge Street beer geek den Bar Volo closed for a snap renovation last Sunday and reopens today with some big changes. Most...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative