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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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Introducing: Pacific Junction Hotel, a bright new island-themed bar from the owners of Betty’s
The Pacific Junction Hotel is not, despite its name, a hotel. Instead, it’s a brightly coloured new bar in the King Street East...
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Introducing: Riverside Public House, a new Queen East bar with Dustin Gallagher in the kitchen
When Nav Sangha (Wrongbar, The Great Hall) took over the former Blue Moon Pub at Queen and Broadview, the first thing he did was...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Weslodge, the new King West “modern saloon” from Charles Khabouth and Hanif Harji
For the second time this year that Yorkville has descended upon King West, first with Gusto 101 (from Trattoria Nervosa’ s Janet...
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Goodnight (the bar) to say goodnight (the valediction) this weekend
Back in October, we warned you that Goodnight, the semi-exclusive neo-speakeasy that was rammed with stars during last year’s...
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Introducing: The Dog and Bear, the traditional British pub that took over from The Social
The latest addition to gentrifying Beaconsfield Village is a simple space that’s designed to service the increasing number of...
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Introducing: The Hogtown Pub and Oysters, a revamp of Little Italy’s Auld Spot Pub
Following an ownership reshuffle, the College Street bar formerly known as The Auld Spot Pub has officially changed its moniker to...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in May
• Kinton— The owners of the Toronto outposts of Guu opened this summer’s first new ramen bar (there are others on the...
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Introducing: The Oxley, the new Yorkville British pub from the team behind the Queen and Beaver
Planted smartly on Yorkville’s main thoroughfare, The Oxley Public House has arrived in style. This English-style pub is the...
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Introducing: Kitch, a new restaurant and club just north of the tracks at Dupont and Dufferin
Kitch bills itself as a place for “eats and beats”—the eats coming courtesy of Bryan Jackson, noted waffle lover and owner...
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Introducing: Marcy, a Roncesvalles Polish restaurant reborn as a cocktail bar
For the past 15 years, Beata Kowalczyk served up hearty Polish fare at her Roncesvalles mainstay, Lala Bistro. Earlier this spring...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bellwoods Brewery, Ossington’s new brewpub and snack bar
After a bit of a lull in new openings, it seems as though Ossington is in the middle of yet another restaurant and bar boom, with...
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Introducing: Midfield Wine Bar, Dundas West’s laid-back spot for oenophiles
Midfield Wine Bar, which opened without much fanfare at the end of January, is the vision of two front-of-house vets: sommelier...
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Introducing: Thirsty and Miserable, a new Kensington dive with a nice slate of craft beers
The craft beer renaissance is taking Ontario by storm (about a decade after it hit the U.S.), and this month saw the launch of...
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11 patios on which you can celebrate this balmy, 16-degree March day
Spring-like weather is a fleeting thing at this time of year, when even the sunniest afternoon can feel like it’s poised on the...
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Introducing: Cube, Charles Khabouth’s newest incarnation of Ultra Supper Club
After nine years, Ultra Supper Club, the restaurant-cum-club that replaced Queen West’s long-time tropical standby Bamboo, has...
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Introducing: Church Aperitivo Bar, an Italian kitchen and bar in a (former) Queen West church
It’s been nearly a year since we first noticed the permit signs on the long-abandoned Slavic church at the corner of Queen and...
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Introducing: McGugan’s, a friendly new Scottish pub on Gerrard Street East
Torontonians have earned the right to be a tad cynical about the opening of yet another ye olde Irish/Scottish/English pub, with...
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Best Bars: The place to go for a wine-drenched girls’ night out on Queen East
Swirl Wine Bar 946 1/2 Queen St. E., 647-351-5453 It’s fitting that the name of Queen East’s best wine bar rhymes with...
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Best Bars: Beer geeks, welcome to your town hall
Bar Volo 587 Yonge St., 416-928-0008 Father-and-son team Ralph and Tomas Morana run their 23-year-old Yonge Street bar with the...
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Best Bars: A killer, just-sweet-enough bourbon cocktail on Queen West
The County General 936 Queen St. W., 416-531-4447 A good drink is in the details, and Aja Sax’s devotion to the little things...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top 16 cocktail lounges, dives and speakeasies
CHECK OUT ALL 16 COCKTAIL PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST ROOFTOP TIPPLES | CLASSIEST DRINKS IN A DIVE | BEST DRINKS AFTER A 12-HOUR DAY |...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top seven spots to commune over a pint of beer (or three)
CHECK OUT ALL SEVEN PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST PLACE TO WATCH THE LEAFS GO DOWN | BEST LOCAVORE TAP ROOM| BEST PUB FOR BEER GEEKS |...
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Best Bars: Two meticulously calibrated elixirs at Brassaii and Barchef (some assembly required)
Brassaii’s Campfire Coffee 461 King St. W., 416-598-4730 Booze slinger Jordan Stacey turns the common specialty coffee into a...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
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From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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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
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