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Introducing: Stirling Room, the Distillery District’s first and only nightclub
There are no ghosts in one of the buildings at the old Gooderham and Worts Distillery, at least not according to entrepreneur...
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Culture
Where to get a TIFF drink: the film festival’s 44 spots with 4 a.m. licences
The arrival of TIFF always demands answers to three crucial questions: which celebs are coming to town, what are the best flicks...
Food & Drink
War on fun: New zoning bylaw prohibits restaurants and bars located south of Bloor from having back patios
Think the one-year ban on bars and restaurants on Ossington was strict? This week, a new zoning bylaw quietly went into effect; it...
Food & Drink
Go now: Ossington’s Salt Wine Bar could soon be closed for licence infractions
Salt Wine Bar, a small, excellent new tapas place on Ossington Avenue, might not survive its first month in business, after a...
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Best of the City: our guide to everything exemplary in Toronto in 2010
We’ve become a city obsessed with provenance. We know the politics of the farmer who collects our eggs, whether our T-shirt...
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Best of the City 2010: four top new venues to drink, dance and party
variation on bottle service Brooklynn 1186 Queen St. W., 416-536-7700 A request for bottle service, that ostentatious nightclub...
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Introducing: Boutique Bar, Church Street’s new cocktail bar
For a year and a half, French competitive mixologist Julien Salomone and his wife, Haligonian Devon Salomone , combed the city for...
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The Dundas West Guide: our 21 favourite places between Ossington and Lansdowne
The strip of Dundas West between Ossington and Lansdowne has not been immune to the wild gentrification going on directly south of...
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Scarpetta’s Scott Conant sends “an open letter to Toronto” just before opening his new restaurant at the Thompson Hotel
New York restaurateur Scott Conant has written an open letter to Toronto, which was published on the Huffington Post this...
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The Toronto Temperance Society: College Street’s “secret” speakeasy
There may be no decoy phone booth in the vein of New York’s secret bar, Please Don’t Tell , but a door on College Street...
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City News
Tobacco timeline: with candy cigarettes now banned, we look back at Canada’s anti-smoking history
Fruit-flavoured and candy cigarettes and cigars were pulled from shelves across Canada yesterday as part of the government’s...
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Five spots that are revolutionizing old-school milkshakes and ice cream floats
Nostalgia is big at Toronto's dairy bars and restaurants right now. Old-fashioned milkshakes and ice cream floats have been...
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Pride: a complete list of bars serving until 4 a.m.
Of all the fun associated with Pride—the parade, the wild outfits, the half-naked people littering the streets—call us...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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The Danforth Guide: our 21 favourite spots along the east end’s main avenue
The east end’s main thoroughfare has long been known for two things: Greek food and the Taste of the Danforth. Over the past...
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Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and...
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The Thompson Hotel’s new 24-hour diner has a touch of Madeline’s
When the Thompson Hotel opens later this month on Wellington, it will not only offer the inn crowd a swanky place to sleep and be...
City News
Will Munro, 1975-2010
Will Munro , the Toronto-based artist who helped redefine what “queer” meant in Toronto, passed away on Friday morning of...
City News
UFC has mystery announcement for Toronto—three ideas for what’s in the boxtagon
Canada has a well-known love of mixed martial arts and the UFC in particular. Toronto bars regularly fill up for every Georges...
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Just Opened: Camp 4, the Ossington alternative
When the Ossington strip is too packed to go bar-hopping (or even to open new bars), it’s time to spread the party...
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Local Kitchen to expand eastward with Bar Salumi, an “aperitif bar”
Fabio Bondi and Michael Sangregorio , the guys behind the Parkdale hot spot Local Kitchen and Wine Bar , are slowly taking over...
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“Social sphere” helmets are designed to filter out bar noise
Denizens of Toronto’s notoriously loud bar scene (we're looking at you, Duggan' s) may find one-on-one verbal interaction a bit...
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Just Opened: OurHouse, a bar with one of the last licences on Ossington
One of the most valuable slips of paper in the city is a liquor licence for premises on Ossington Avenue, and Anthony Siniscalco...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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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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