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Best Restaurants
Food & Drink
What went down at
Toronto Life
’s 10th annual Best Restaurants event presented by Uber Eats
A peek inside the anniversary edition of the celebration for the city’s best new kitchens (and some old favourites)
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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
TL Events
Toronto Life
’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
TL Events
Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th anniversary
Early bird tickets are now available for the all-inclusive night featuring the city’s top chefs, restaurants, dishes and drinks
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TL Insider
What TL Insiders can look forward to in April
Including high tea at the Windsor Arms Hotel and early access to our Best Restaurants event
Food & Drink
Highlights from
Toronto Life
’s ninth annual Best Restaurants event
A peek inside the sold-out celebration of the city’s best flavours
Food & Drink
Highlights from
Toronto Life
’s eighth annual Best Restaurants event
Here's what went down at the sold-out celebration of the city's culinary scene
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Deep Dives
Toronto Life
’s top long-reads of 2023
A ranking of our most popular feature stories of the year
TL Events
Highlights from
Toronto Life’s
sixth-annual Best Restaurants event
More than 800 guests brought their appetites for the all-you-can-eat affair
Food & Drink
Tickets for
Toronto Life’
s Best Restaurants 2018 event are on sale now
Get yours while they last
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Food & Drink
Toronto Life
is hosting a series of epic dinners at the city’s best restaurants, and you’re invited
You don't want to miss these one-night-only menus
Food & Drink
The city’s best restaurants served up a feast at
Toronto Life’
s Where to Eat event
Mouth-watering photos from our Where to Eat event at the Sony Centre
Food & Drink
The best restaurants in North America are all in the U.S., according to Newsweek
For its August 13 and 20 double issue, the editors of Newsweek put together a Restaurant magazine–style list of the 101 best...
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Food & Drink
Reaction Roundup: what keeps Canadian restaurants out of the world’s top 50?
Last week, we told you about Restaurant magazine’s annual list of the world’s best restaurants, which, once again, featured no...
Food & Drink
Canadian restaurants fail to place in the S. Pellegrino Top 50—again
Let the ritual speculation and recrimination commence. Once again, no restaurants from Canada made it to the list of the world’s...
Food & Drink
Check out version two of the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
Last Thursday, Toronto Life released its new Best Restaurants app, which brings our reviews of Toronto’s top 400+ restaurants to...
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City News
Editor’s Letter (April 2012): The App of My Eye
The last couple of years have been fantastic for Toronto diners. The city has experienced an explosion of hole-in-the-wall...
Food & Drink
Three years in, Charlie’s Burgers brings Le Châteaubriand—the world’s ninth-best restaurant—to Toronto
Charlie’s Burgers, the original Toronto pop-up, just celebrated its third birthday in February, six months after the Globe and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
The Dish is very pleased to announce the launch of Toronto Life’ s Best Restaurants app for the iPhone and iPad. Easy to use and...
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Food & Drink
Once again, no Canadian restos make the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants
With dramatic action-movie music and a little smug British humour, the much-anticipated S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best...
Food & Drink
Two Canadian restaurants make the S. Pellegrino top 100
The much-anticipated list of S. Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants 2010 was announced in London yesterday in front of the...
Food & Drink
WHERE TO EAT NOW: Toronto’s top 10 restaurants, top new restaurants, and much, much more
James Chatto's eagerly awaited annual ranking of the city's best restaurants is now on-line. Find it as part of our "Where to Eat...
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Food & Drink
Sushi Kaji: An omakase odyssey
Nearly every Toronto food enthusiast has heard about a little boîte on the Queensway called Sushi Kaji . We were there recently...
Food & Drink
Top 10 restaurants of 2009: The best of the rest
In our April issue, Toronto Life ranks the city’s 10 best restaurants and 10 best new restaurants. But even the most...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
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
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!”
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