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Ten Cupid-approved restaurants for Valentine’s Day dinner
Love is on the menu—as are foie gras, truffle lasagna and desserts galore
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Where (and what) the stars ate during TIFF
Including prime rib sandwiches at Jacobs and Co. and Greek feasts at Milos
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Ten Toronto restaurants celebrating Lunar New Year
Ring in the Year of the Snake with these set menus
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The best restaurants in Yorkville
Toronto Life's highest-rated restaurants in the high-end 'hood
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Toronto’s best French restaurants
Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
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Inside the kitchen of Café Boulud chef de cuisine Sylvain Assié
A few of the things it's stocked with: cheese, charcuterie, truffles, foie gras and champagne
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Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh
Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce
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At Flock Rotisserie and Greens, you really can win friends with salad
Cory Vitiello's fast-casual chain successfully makes salad a main course
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Toronto’s best new restaurants
Our critic ate his way across the city, and lucky for you, he took notes. Here's our annual ranking of the city's top new places to eat
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Review: Café Boulud’s new Lyonnais menu is Boulud at his best
The revamped kitchen has gone from a typical hotel restaurant to a French brasserie—and it's better for it
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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Rare birds: The city’s best roast-chicken dinners
Five fowl dinners with all the fixings
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Just in time for TIFF, Café Boulud reopens with a new look and menu
After closing in late June to undergo a complete transformation, the new Café Boulud is now open, just in time for TIFF...
Culture
TIFF 2014 Insider’s Guide: Where to Eat, Drink and Party
A highly discerning look at the festival’s hottest hot spots The Chase 10 Temperance St., 647-348-7000 The glitzy surf-and-turf...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
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10 Best Dishes at Toronto Restaurants in 2014
How to narrow down thousands of gratifying forkfuls into one definitive list? Easy. These are the dishes I’d order again and...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: French Cuisine
It’s time to rediscover buttery, sublime Gallic cooking Traditional French restaurants never went away, but they certainly lost...
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Five food fads we love
After recessionary years of hanging our puffy coats on the backs of chairs (and inevitably seeing them trampled by wait...
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New Year’s Eve Dinners: eight delicious ways to ring in 2014
The key to a successful New Year’s Eve: making a firm plan and sticking to it. Scoring a great reservation ensures that part of...
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Must-Try: the inventive grapefruit givré dessert at Café Boulud
Café Boulud’ s stunning grapefruit givré is the highlight of its dinner menu. It’s also an import from New York. Ghaya...
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Five over-the-top Valentine’s Day Toronto hotel packages
Every year, Toronto hotels dream up outrageously indulgent Valentine’s Day stay-cations. Champagne, chocolate and roses usually...
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Critic: we review Cafe Boulud, the casual Yorkville bistro from New York chef Daniel Boulud
Toronto expected four-star French dining from Cafe Boulud in the Four Seasons. Instead, the city got another trendy two-star...
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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