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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 16 to 22
Monday, July 16 Tuesday, July 17 Wednesday, July 18 Thursday, July 19 Friday, July 20 Saturday, July 21 Sunday, July 22 Farmers’...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 9 to 15
Monday, July 9 Tuesday, July 10 Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, July 12 Friday, July 13 Saturday, July 14 Sunday, July 15 Farmers’...
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Introducing: Hogtown Smoke, Toronto’s first food truck with an on-board smoker
Just over a month old, the Hogtown Smoke is the brainchild of Mark Wasserman and brothers Scott and Kevin Fraser, who run the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The White Brick Kitchen, a new spot for American comfort food (“Tater Tots” included)
The newest local joint serving up hearty comfort food is tucked in among the Korean eateries on Bloor Street West. The White Brick...
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Captured: New Hogtown Smoke food truck draws huge lunchtime lineups
By some magical twist of fate, the two parking lots directly to the east and the north of the Toronto Life offices have become...
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Introducing: Leslieville Pumps, Toronto’s only barbecue joint that’s also a gas station
Bringing something novel to jaded Torontonians is a pretty tall order. By the looks of it, though, that’s just what brothers...
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Introducing: Stack, uptown’s new barbecue restaurant (complete with a huge smoker)
“Anybody can do a good burger,” says Todd Savage , co-owner of Stack , uptown’s answer to Barque. “But being the pit...
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Where to Eat Now 2012: Vote on the 10 trends in dining that we love and hate
We picked out ten trends that helped define dining in Toronto in 2012, and pronounced whether we loved them, hated them or had a...
Food & Drink
Where to Eat Now 2012: 10 trends in dining that we love and hate (or have a love-hate relationship with)
See the 10 trends » Vote on the 10 trends » (Images: Illustrations by Joe McKendry)
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Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 6 Barque
There’s no limit to what chef-owner David Neinstein will load into his magnificent smoker: pork shoulder, beef ribs and whole...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 7, Slow and Low Pulled Pork
Ok, so host Jesse Palmer didn’t exactly loosen up like we hoped he would last week. And sure, the show didn’t really get any...
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Toronto’s five best brunch dishes
(Image: The huevos rancheros at Origin, by John Cullen)
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Introducing: Hardys, the second southern barbecue joint to grace St. Clair West
Back in May, we reported on an upcoming barbecue joint, Hardys: A Hogtown Brasserie (its name a riff on Toronto’s pig-farming...
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Cottage of the Week: $8.5 million for a Lake Muskoka log cabin
ADDRESS : Peninsula Road, Port Carling NEIGHBOURHOOD : Lake Muskoka AGENT : Richard Scully , Harvey Kalles Real Estate...
Food & Drink
A gourmand’s guide to haute dogs for the grill
Innovative butchers are digging up old family recipes and mixing exotic meats with offbeat flavourings Olliffe ’s butchers mix...
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David Lawrason offers nine reasons why garnacha makes for great barbecue wine
Backyard sommeliers bored with the usual summer reds (merlot, shiraz, zinfandel) should try fruity garnacha. It is more commonly...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: the perfect grill is much cheaper than you might think
Forget the fancy gadgets. Really good barbecue is about fire, smoke and meat It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in the barbecue...
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DIY BBQ Guide: three meat delivery services for locavores who can’t fit a side of beef in their freezer
Being a locavore doesn’t come cheap. While buying in bulk can help, not everyone has a minivan and a deep-freeze big enough for...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: how to turn your grill into a smoker for $10
How to turn your barbecue into a miniature smoker using a $10 metal box, a handful of wood chips and a little bit of...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: how to make the Stockyards’ killer coleslaw
The debate over tangy versus creamy ends here. Stockyards on St. Clair West makes a killer coleslaw that’s a bit of...
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The Long Weekender: 9 to 5, Food Truck Eats and six other ways to spend your Canada Day/Pride weekend
1. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL The ’80s are so hot right now. Ripped skinnies, jelly shoes and Chuck Taylors are all in, samples and...
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Introducing: The Drake Summer School Dining Hall, the first in the boutique hotel’s Dining Roadshow series
The Drake Hotel has never been afraid of a little shtick, and pop-up and quasi pop-up operations have long been a part of...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: a goof-proof brick chicken recipe
Barbecuing a whole chicken has never been for the faint of heart: different parts of the bird cook at different speeds, and...
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DIY Barbecue Guide: Three ways to brush up on your ’cue skills
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’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
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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
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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