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A new listening lounge has landed on Roncesvalles
Café Russo is the city's newest place for coffee and vinyl nerds
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Cosette Coffee, a bakery near High Park serving top-notch pastries, desserts and a cookie that is out of this world
Former aerospace engineer Christina Cho turned her passion for high-octane pastry into a full-time pursuit
Food & Drink
Inside Toronto’s first Reserve Bar, Starbucks’ new 3,200-square-foot shrine to coffee
It's like Starbucks, but fancier
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: do I have to keep paying for my seat at a café?
Dear Urban Diplomat, At my local café, earbud-sporting caffeine junkies on laptops (of which I’m one) are as much a part of the...
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Trinity Bellwoods welcomes The Lucky Penny, a new café-general store hybrid with a 25-seat patio
Debbie Rix ’s original intention wasn't to open The Lucky Penny in the midst of a polar vortex. The first-time entrepreneur was...
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A dainty new café and brunch spot in Cabbagetown
The Scullery, the latest addition to Cabbagetown’s hip new ranks, has a charmingly Parisian vibe: pastel walls, spindly tables...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Go Lounge, Parkdale’s new board game café
The never-ending line for a table at Snakes and Lattes convinced Samantha Lerner and Alisa Sadler, friends and patrons of the...
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Balzac’s Coffee almost set to open in the Toronto Reference Library
The head office at Balzac's Coffee has confirmed with The Dish that its newest location (hot on the heels of the recent Ryerson...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Smock Café, the new Roncesvalles spot for coffee, kids and crafting
One day prior to its opening a couple weeks back, a mosaic of pint-sized hand and nose prints adorned the glass front of...
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Introducing: Tori’s Bakeshop, a pretty new vegan bakery café in the Beach
About this time of year, the Beach starts to wake up from its winter slumber, which makes it a great time for Victoria Vaccher to...
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The red-tape brigade comes to The Pinball Café—but the owners are appealing
That was fast. We’ve received word from Jason Hazzard that the Toronto red-tape brigade his brand-new Pinball Café. Hazzard...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
Food & Drink
The rise of the indie coffee mini-empire
For Toronto coffee lovers, 2011 started in much the same way that 2010 finished: with further proof that the indie coffee craze...
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Introducing: Sense Appeal, a cafe with a “director of coffee extraction”
With an undeniable indie cafe explosion taking place, it's only a matter of time before Toronto’s coffee scene enters the realm...
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Introducing: The Abbott, yet another coffee shop in Parkdale
“Coffee shop opens in west end”—it’s a story we’ve been able to write not once, not twice, not three times , not four...
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Krispy Kreme is open for business at Bathurst and Harbord
Long, long ago, there was a magical presence in Toronto, gracing food courts and office buildings like gleaming, artery-clogging...
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Toronto’s 13 new cafés: board games, Bohème and a resurrected waffle house
These days, the arrival of a new indie café on Queen West or in Leslieville is about as novel as a Gap opening in a mall, which...
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Introducing: Snakes and Lattes, the Annex’s clever new board games café
Not since the opening of Sam James have we seen so many re-tweets and wall postings about a new café. But it’s not the coffee...
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“Coolest espresso machine on the planet” is coming to Toronto
Slayer is coming to Toronto. No, we’re not talking about the speed metal gods who brought us “Angel of Death,” but a...
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Introducing: Hub, Wallace-Emerson’s new indie coffee shop
Toronto’s wealth of new indie cafés has been a boon to community life, but mostly for neighbourhoods south of Bloor. That's not...
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Toronto reminds Calgary’s indie coffee shops that nothing comes for free
Re:Sound, a Toronto-based not-for-profit music-licensing company, is conjuring up icky feelings in Calgary—the same feelings its...
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Toronto’s 14 new cafés: independent coffee shops continue citywide takeover
By our count, a whopping 22 new indie cafés opened in Toronto in 2009, but it looks like 2010 will be giving the java scene an...
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Two vices are better than one: Toronto’s cafés break out the booze
If we’re to believe Leah McLaren, the MacBook army has totally colonized Toronto’s coffee shops. Now, thanks to a new...
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Is free Wi-Fi killing Toronto’s indie cafés?
When not referring to Black Hoof co-owner Grant van Gameren as “Greg,” the Globe and Mail has been sticking it to “freelance...
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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
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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