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Introducing: Hitch, a cozy new Leslieville bar named for an irascible literary gadfly
Name: Hitch (yes, after writer and noted drinker Christopher Hitchens ) Neighborhood: Leslieville Contact info: 1216 Queen...
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Five spicy, soul-warming Toronto cocktails to lure you out of hibernation
These Toronto cocktails, loaded with spices, fruits and syrups, are perfectly calibrated to take the edge off a cold, dreary...
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Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
City News
Year in Review: Read all of Toronto Life’s cover stories from the past 12 months
In the past year, Toronto Life rated the city’s best new restaurants, talked to Rob Ford’ s inner circle and examined...
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Year in Review: all 161 new restaurants, bars, food shops and food trucks we covered in 2012
When historians of Toronto’s food scene (should they ever exist) look back on 2012, they’ll wonder how so many new...
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Introducing: Sabai Sabai, a new Northern Thai restaurant and bar on Church
Sabai Sabai is a new Thai spot just south of Ryerson from first-time restaurateurs Jason Jiang and Seng Luong, who’ve partnered...
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Introducing: Archive, a casual new wine bar on Dundas West
Unlike the tony wine bars of yore, which targeted the suits-and-heels crowd, Archive, which opened last month, is situated on the...
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26 of the best Toronto happy hour specials
Happy hours have a weird history in straight-laced Ontario. The province first allowed the practice in 1981, only to ban it three...
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Frog and Firkin the latest Firkin pub to get the “Cool Britannia” treatment
Over the weekend, the Frog and Firkin at Yonge and Sheppard relaunched as The Frog, the latest in a series of rebrandings by the...
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The Tilted Kilt opens its first Toronto location
Las Vegas-based “breastaurant” The Tilted Kilt opened its first Toronto outpost, fittingly, on The Esplanade...
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Charles Khabouth launches Uniun, a new LED-laden club on Adelaide
Charles Khabouth may have opened his fair share of restaurants in recent years, but if his new 16,000-square-foot club Uniun...
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Parkdale strip hit with Ossington-style restaurant ban (but Grand Electric’s expansion is safe)
Last week, city councillor Gord Perks quietly pushed through a moratorium (like the one on Ossington in 2009) on new restaurants...
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Introducing: Mr. Pong’s Bar, a new Little Portugal watering hole from the people behind Cold Tea
Mr. Pong’s Real Food, the Canadian-Chinese restaurant that provided fuel for so many late nights on Queen West in the...
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Introducing: Triple A Bar, a new Texas-style barbecue joint and saloon on Adelaide
Laide, the erotically themed Adelaide and Jarvis cocktail lounge, has gotten a big revamp. The stripper pole and nude relief...
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Best of Fall 2012: Charles Khabouth expands his fashionable club empire with King West’s Storys
You already run 11 clubs and restaurants in Toronto. What sets Storys apart? It’s my biggest: a four-storey, 170-year-old...
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Introducing: Nikai, the Momofuku complex’s new bar and lounge
The Momofuku complex’s second floor is home to a waiting area that overlooks the bustling Noodle Bar and to Nikai, a bar and...
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Hooters embarks on a bold new business strategy: appealing to women
Bloomberg Businessweek recently took a look at the economic state of Hooters, the chain known for buxom servers, orange shorts and...
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Introducing: Tallboys Craft Beer House, a new Bloorcourt den for beer geeks
The city’s ongoing love affair with craft beer has reached the point where it’s getting difficult to find a new bar that...
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The Month That Was: The Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in August
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Introducing: Sauce on the Danforth, a new east end bar with classic cocktails and 17 craft beers on tap
The roaring ’20s (or at least some version of them) have been roaring back for the last few years, with TV shows like HBO’s...
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Introducing: Rakia Bar, a shiny new Queen East spot devoted to a traditional Balkan drink
Serbian-Canadian Dušan Varga’ s Rakia Bar cannot be easily pigeonholed as an ethnic bar. Sure, you may hear Goran Bregović...
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Introducing: Museum Tavern, a classic American brasserie right across from the ROM
Taking trips together to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, brothers Kyle and Glen Kristenbrun fell in love with classic...
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Five things we learned about Charles Khabouth from the Toronto Star’s profile
Charles Khabouth is on a tear. The so-called King of Clubs (a name he’s understandably sick of) recently opened Weslodge, La...
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Introducing: Handlebar, The Avro’s new big sister bar in Kensington Market
It took two years, but Rachel Conduit and Bruce Dawson’ s vision has now outgrown the confines of their first watering hole, the...
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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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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!”
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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