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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Short Turn, a snazzy new cocktail spot on Queen West from the 416 Snack Bar team
Including a drink inspired by Michelle Rabin’s Miso Banana Upside Down Cake
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Food & Drink
“It was time to come home”: After Banknote Bar was booted from King West by the Ontario Line, owner Louie Cristello looked to Little Italy
How Ladybug Tavern landed on College Street
Food & Drink
Where to watch the World Cup in Toronto
No matter which country you're rooting for, there's a bar for that
Food & Drink
Where to get a drink or dance until 4 a.m. during TIFF
Where to go after the after-party
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Life
Toronto’s best new LGBTQ bars and queer hangouts
Including Lavender Menace, Tammy's Wine Bar and Houndstooth
Food & Drink
Q&A: The co-founders of Grape Witches on the power of natural wine
Including details on what they’ll be bringing to TL Insider as this month’s sommeliers-in-residence
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Miracle on Ossington, a super-seasonal holiday pop-up with egg nog and fire pits
If you like string lights and strong cocktails, this is the bar for you
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Food & Drink
The 30 best bars in Toronto
From molecular cocktails to top-notch tap lists, these are our favourite places to drink in the city right now
Food & Drink
Amsterdam Brewing is opening a new Leaside location, and it’s going to be pretty funky
Expect barrel-aged beers and a 300-seat restaurant with a wood-fired grill
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Tennessee Tavern, Grant van Gameren’s new Eastern European bar in Parkdale
It's a real sausage party
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s patio fee “nightmare” reminds us just how vital outdoor seating is—and not just for happy hour
"Myself and friends in the industry are talking about packing it in and moving up north"
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Baro, King West’s new Latin American compound with a password-protected lounge
Yep, a password-protected lounge
Food & Drink
Clocktower Bar is a new cocktail spot from the Boxcar Social team
And it's right next door
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Food & Drink
Introducing: The Shameful Tiki Room, a Polynesian paradise in Parkdale
This is the second tiki bar for the west-end neighbourhood
Food & Drink
Ceili Cottage loses its yurt
Leslieville's Mongolian patio won't be going up this winter
Food & Drink
What Annex residents think about Boston Pizza (maybe) moving into the Brunswick House
"I’d rather an open pit than the Brunny"
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City News
QUOTED: Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, on Toronto’s nightlife
– Denis Coderre , mocking Toronto's 2 a.m. last call during his announcement of a pilot project that will allow bars on two...
Food & Drink
Should Toronto have a 4 a.m. last call? These people certainly think so
The term "world-class city" gets thrown around a lot these days—especially in Toronto, which seems haunted by it—but it tends...
City News
Best of the City: our indispensable list of all that’s excellent in 2013
City hall is a circus, our roads are chronically clogged and the Stanley Cup continues to elude us, but our economy is booming...
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Food & Drink
The city clamps down on the Parkdale party scene with a new Queen West restaurant cap
Over the last five years, the stretch of Queen West between Dufferin and Roncesvalles, once known for drugs and prostitution, has...
Food & Drink
Adam Vaughan proposes a Parkdale-style bar ban on Kensington Market
Once quaint and charmingly grungy Kensington is rapidly gentrifying. New gourmet food shops, including Thomas Lavers, Hooked and...
Food & Drink
Five exclusive Toronto spots ideal for landing a top-notch client
1. Soho House Just getting inside this new private members’ club is sure to impress the person on the other end of your...
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Queen East bar The Avro is closing in April
Riverside’s The Avro is shutting down after three years on the strip, following a request from its landlord for double the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Northwood, a new Christie Pits café and cocktail bar
Name: Northwood Neighbourhood: Christie Pits Contact info: 815 Bloor St. W., Facebook page, @NorthwoodBloor Owners: Richard Pope...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’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
Big Stories
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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