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Name that Saloon: West Queen West gets a new bar by the Harbord Room boys
In a powerhouse collaboration to rival The Saint’s roster, the Harbord Room ’s owner (David Mitton, also of Czehoski ), chef...
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Toronto’s most authentic mojitos
Torontonians are willing to slap the label “mojito” on just about any rum-based beverage containing mint. Cubans tell a...
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The Ossington Guide
Over the past few years, we’ve watched the Ossington strip evolve from a no-go set of dodgy storefronts to an edgy Queen West...
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Topless coffee shop goes bust, poisoned chickens, speakeasies on the rise
• A Ryerson University professor is developing a time-release salt that delivers an initial burst of flavour followed by smaller...
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Anthony Bourdain hates cupcakes, Thuet gets convicted, Fall Out Boy’s underage flub
• Chef and author Anthony Bourdain tells the Seattle Times he's had enough of the cupcake trend, that Kobe beef should not be...
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Ossington residents split on licensing ban
Forget the war on the car—a growing contingent of west-end residents is gearing up for a war on the bar. On Tuesday, city...
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More recession-struck boîtes go belly up
Although the stock exchange is out of meltdown mode, restaurants are still suffering the aftershocks of recession. We’ve already...
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Elementary students declare The Drake best restaurant on Queen West
The intrepid Parkdale Pumas—public schoolers turned restaurant critics for the performance art project Eat the Street —have...
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The new patios of summer ’09: Fresh grazing grounds for outdoorsy appetites
With spring heating up into summer, we scoped out some new (and renewed) terraces that will get a beer-drenched baptism this...
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Bier Markt spearheads white asparagus cuisine and umlaut abuse
As restaurants across the city put the emphasis on local ingredients, the Bier Markt becomes the bad boy of culinary correctness...
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Loss of appetite: It’s a double whammy for restaurants as their Bay Street backers go broke
There’s no question that investing in a restaurant is a high-risk venture. That said, many of the city’s swankiest downtown...
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A pierogi debate dies, Inniskillin’s Italian glory, bacon cocktails
• The media coverage of the alleged rat infestations in Chinatown has to do with a lot more than health concerns, argues...
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Tip of the Isberg: Coca’s fate is in the hands of its one-time chef
When we asked whether Coca ’s surprise shutdown signalled closure or reincarnation, we didn’t know that its management was...
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What’s become of Coca?
Last night, we noticed that the windows of the trendy tapas bar Coca had been papered over. Though it was open on Friday, its...
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Toronto’s hidden brunch gems
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Praising peameal, Canadian wines go abroad, Marché Movenpick rises again
• The recession is hitting gimmicky joints hard, but “Insatiable” columnist Sasha Chapman sees few consequences for...
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The New York Times nails The Drake and The Gladstone
The New York Times 's style magazine, T, pays homage to West Queen West with a high-praise profile of the Drake and Gladstone...
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“We’re recession proof!”—an annual saviour comes to Toronto
Several holidays have been downsized by the economic downturn: first there was Recessmas, then Valentine’s “Pay What You...
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Shops with multiple identities: Creative trend or a sign of the (bad) times?
Nothing is more Torontonian than the ability to multitask. The daily toggle between BlackBerry and iPhone is de rigueur, as is the...
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Parkdale’s new festival, Beerbistro’s free meal giveaway, Starbucks’ breakfast deals
• Consumers are willing to pay much more for ethically produced meat, but who really knows what the label means? Here, a look at...
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Ultra unveils its new(ish) image
When Ultra Supper Club announced that it was relaunching under the name Ultra, it was hard to believe that much would change at...
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I recently noticed a paramedic driving a tractor tricked out like an ambulance
I recently noticed a paramedic driving a tractor tricked out like an ambulance. I know budgets are tight—but surely not that...
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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
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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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