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“I left my high-paying tech job to live out my dream of becoming a pastry chef”
After weathering recession after recession to establish a career in a booming industry, I walked away to make decadent desserts and beautiful loaves of bread. It didn’t quite go as planned
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This is what’s replacing Glory Hole Doughnuts in Leslieville
Jupiter Bakehouse has some big baked-goods shoes to fill
Food & Drink
This hyper-local bakery in Cambridge uses almost nothing but Canadian ingredients, right down to the salt
That means no vanilla, no chocolate and no citrus
Food & Drink
Italian sandwiches on freshly baked focaccia are coming to Kensington Market
Uncle Pete’s Bread Co. is opening next month on Baldwin Street
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Food & Drink
“Dough is in my DNA”: How the grandson of Toronto baker Dave Silverstein found his true calling
Ryan Silverstein on opening Le Petit Pain, a French bakery in Forest Hill
Food & Drink
Where carb connoisseur Matthew Faust of Brodflour goes for bread, pastries and pizza in the west end
Including stops for airy sourdough, pull-apart doughnuts and pistachio-topped slices
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Panificio Bruno, an Italian home bakery turning out just 20 loaves of focaccia a week
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Toronto’s best bread right now
Our picks for the city's best boules, batards and baguettes
Food & Drink
Toronto’s bread-loving bakers share their sourdough-starter origin stories
Including a WWI-era starter from France and one that was brought to life in the Yukon 123 years ago
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Toronto’s best bagels
Our survey of the city’s best, new and old
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Prairie Boy brings its bread to Dufferin Grove
The Bloor-Borden Farmers' Market staple now has its own retail outlet on College
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we’re in the midst of a bread renaissance
Fate has dealt a cruel hand to gluten-sensitive types, because there has never been a better time to buy...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bonne Journée, a new French bakery on Queen East with a Tunisian twist
For those visiting Bonne Journée, Tunisian ex-pat Hitchem Charfi’ s new French bakery on Queen Street East, it helps to know...
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CNN Travel lists the St. Lawrence Market as one of the world’s 10 best fresh markets
The St. Lawrence Market is having a moment: not only did celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain recently stop by to film a segment for...
Shopping
Vain Glory: a his-and-hers medicine cabinet stocked with everything you need
A his-and-hers medicine cabinet loaded for the kind of people who need more than Ivory and Crest to get through life
Food & Drink
J. P. Challet to open Le Matin, a new French boulangerie on Queen East
Queen Street East has been steadily attracting culinary entrepreneurs for the last decade or so, but with prime spaces available...
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Toronto’s five best house-made breads
(Image: The heavenly brioche at Lucien, by John Cullen)
City News
City hall councillor wants to bring back free food so that he can sit still
James Pasternak has an idea for making things a little more civil during city council meetings: bring back the snacks. Council...
Food & Drink
Keriwa Café, a new restaurant with an Aboriginal menu, to open on Queen West next month
A new restaurant focused on Aboriginal cuisine is set to open on Queen Street West this coming May. Behind Keriwa is Aaron Joseph...
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Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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The Foodist Market, a new organic grocer, takes over Pulp Kitchen’s space on Queen East
The Foodist Market , a new small grocery shop in Leslieville, has only been open for a few days, so it’s no surprise that many...
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Kneadful things: a guide to the best restaurant bread in town
With artisanal flours, custom-made ovens and full-time bakers, restaurants are turning the pre-dinner breadbasket into an...
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The Weekender: Sandra Shamas, Brothel #9 and six other can’t-miss events
1. SANDRA SHAMAS’ WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE Comedy queen Sandra Shamas started making audiences laugh back in the ’80s—her...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top five loaves
Loaf lovers are seeking out breads with character at indie bakeries. 1. ALSATIAN SOURDOUGH With a crisp crust, chewy crumb and...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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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