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Just Opened: Dolce Social Ballroom, condoland’s new dance club, goes after 30-somethings
Yet another dance club at King and Bathurst awaits downtown condo dwellers who made it to this side of the recession with some...
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Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
A $35 table d’hôte makes one of Bay Street’s priciest—and most delicious—lunch spots accessible to those without an...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
Bay Street gets health-conscious at this subterranean jewel. With nothing over 650 calories—not even this bison burger—the...
Style
Summer of the bike: eight cyclists who ride in style
Remember those “I survived Toronto” T-shirts from summer 2003? The checklist on them read: SARS, West Nile, Mad Cow, SARS...
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Style
Just opened: Brooks Brothers suits Bay Streeters just fine
Brooks Brothers—the 192-year-old company that has dressed nearly every American president from Lincoln to Kennedy to Obama and...
Food & Drink
Final throes: Where to find a table during the last weekend of Summerlicious
The dog days of Summerlicious are here, and with reservations down at top restaurants across the city, many tables are sitting...
Food & Drink
Thuet opens one, closes another
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are adding a new outpost to their empire, just as they close the dining room at Atelier Thuet . The...
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Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch
This week, our lunch pick is a calming Japanese restaurant that caters to Bay Streeters and casual diners alike. The deal? A...
Food & Drink
Far Niente and Four get new chefs
Sister Bay Street restaurants Four and Far Niente are getting some fresh flavour this spring with the appointment of new chefs de...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top cheesecakes
Neither trendy nor cliché, cheesecake has gained a reputation as the go-to choice of the unadventurous—a steadfast, Golden...
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Style
GreenShag duo tell us what men should be wearing to interviews
GreenShag, the bespoke menswear clothier known for its hockey rink cufflinks, opened a storefront on Queen West last summer. Run...
Food & Drink
Open season: A look at some of the city’s best patios
This past weekend proved that double-digit temperatures are all Torontonians need to get patio season going. We checked out some...
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
Go west: The Saint brings some King Street style to the Ossington strip
For the past two years, trendspotters’ eyes have been fixed on the Ossington Avenue strip. And now the ’hood is getting a...
Food & Drink
Rosewater Supper Club: Prized for its back-door entrance
Each day of the 2008 film festival, Toronto Life will introduce one of TIFF’s hot spot restaurants. We inquire about the...
Food & Drink
The glitzy Toronto event that linked Bill Clinton, Shakira and Eugene Levy
The skybox on the front page of yesterday’s Toronto Star featured a bunch of gold stars with the faces of famous people: Tom...
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Just how accurate is Michael Clayton?
If the recent success of Michael Clayton is any indication, the public perception of lawyers breaks down into four...
City News
Flaherty v. McGuinty: Many cans of whoop-ass later
Hot on the heels of Wednesday’s melancholy post about the rotten economy comes the news that federal finance minister Jim...
Food & Drink
Gretzky, Brazil and New Zealand
Wine of the WeekWayne Gretzky Estates 2006 No. 99 Unoaked Chardonnay, Ontario ($13.95, 83 points, 63826) Celebrity, not...
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City News
Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
One of the more bizarre spectacles in the Black debacle has been the revolving door in the executive offices of the Hollinger...
Food & Drink
Chin up, Bobo
The best places for lunch in Toronto? Not too hard a question. The Gallery Grill, Jamie Kennedy’s Wine Bar and his place at the...
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County Terroir, Tawse, Lifford Highlights
Long weekend coming up! For a getaway, head east to Prince Edward County’s Terroir Wine Celebration at the Picton Crystal Palace...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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
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
Just Listed
Just Listed
For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
Just Listed
For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
Just Listed
For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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