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“I wanted to bring the goth scene back to Queen Street West”: DJ Lazarus is keeping Toronto nightlife alive
Lloyd Warren, DJ and owner of Parkdale’s Ground Control, talks thirty years of alternative nightlife
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Food & Drink
A massive country-western bar is coming to the Esplanade
The family behind the Old Spaghetti Factory is bringing live music and line dancing to St. Lawrence
Food & Drink
This is what’s replacing a long-standing Little Portugal bar
The new day-to-night spot will serve coffee, as well as African-influenced cocktails and snacks
Food & Drink
The most expensive cocktail at Parkdale’s newest bar is just $16
A team of industry experts is behind the Virginia
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Food & Drink
This iconic Toronto pizzeria is entering its nightlife era
Hello, cheap cocktails and two different happy hours every single day
Food & Drink
Crossing the border for buffalo wings? Not anymore thanks to this new bar in Etobicoke
The Elmwood is a homage to the Queen City’s watering holes
Food & Drink
This is what’s replacing the Dive Shop in Leslieville
When one cocktail bar closes, another one opens
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This is what’s opening in the old Cold Tea space on Queen West
Some of the industry’s biggest names are behind it
Food & Drink
“Customers start crying, then I start crying”: The owner of the Imperial Pub on closing the 81-year-old institution
The storied watering hole will pour its last pint on November 15
Food & Drink
This new bar wants to inject some life back into Queen West
Can One Star Bar help the street get its groove back?
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After closing five years ago, this popular west-end bar has reopened
And in the same location too
Food & Drink
Ossington’s new martini bar has a champagne vending machine
Small Talk, a martini bar and jazz club, is now open in the old Baby Huey space
Food & Drink
Toronto’s pedal pubs can now legally serve booze on board
The rolling bars have teamed up with Collective Arts brewing to boost tourism
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A super-popular pizzeria in Little Italy just opened a bar next door
Introducing Danny’s Next Door, the new sibling spot to Danny’s Pizza Tavern
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“One of our regulars got the logo tattooed on her butt”: The new owners of Squirly’s on bringing a beloved Queen West dive bar back from the dead
For once, nostalgia triumphed over condo developers
Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s best new happy hours
Where to find cheap drinks and snacks every day of the week
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What’s on the menu at Bar Maaya, a moody new lounge serving over-the-top cocktails
Including traditional absinthe service
Food & Drink
Twelve new restaurants and bars you’ll want to try now
From high-end Asian eats to destination burger joints
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Compton Ave., the new British cocktail bar from the BarChef team
That’s Compton, London
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“I work as a bottle girl in a club. Here’s what it’s like behind the scenes”
Victoria Cunningham, 27, once made $2,500 in tips in a single night. She also spends $15,000 a year on treatments like filler and Botox to stay club-ready
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Paradise Grotto, a new tiki-inspired cocktail bar in the Entertainment District
Including Loco Moco burgers, pu pu platters and a lot of rum-based drinks
Food & Drink
Backyard hideaways, rooftop lounges, a 2,000-square-foot all-season terrace, and more of Toronto’s best new patios
And stay tuned as we add to this list throughout the summer
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The best places to eat and drink near the Rogers Centre
A dozen bars within a 10-minute walk of the stadium
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Prequel & Co. Apothecary, a whimsical new Queen West cocktail lounge from the owner of BarChef
Just don't call it a speakeasy
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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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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