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Toronto’s top artisanal toasts
Eye-roll if you must, but it's still trending for a reason
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Toronto’s best house-made chips
Ten artisanal takes on the classic snack that put Pringles to shame
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Café Belong has adopted Ceili Cottage’s yurt
Toronto's most unique winterized patio is now at the Evergreen Brick Works
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Ceili Cottage loses its yurt
Leslieville's Mongolian patio won't be going up this winter
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Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #7. Patios aren’t just for summer
Ceili Cottage’ s giant plastic-wrapped yurt is low on curb appeal, but inside, the 35-seat rotunda is steamy and intimate. The...
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Cold Comfort: 11 winter patios for Toronto’s class of dedicated outdoor diners
Toronto’s love of patios is a curious, twisted thing. Even when the day’s high is minus-something-awful and snow blankets the...
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Where to find the best heritage breed turkeys in Toronto
We’re a city obsessed with eating local, and when it comes to planning the biggest dinner of the year, we’re even more...
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Frog and Firkin the latest Firkin pub to get the “Cool Britannia” treatment
Over the weekend, the Frog and Firkin at Yonge and Sheppard relaunched as The Frog, the latest in a series of rebrandings by the...
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Gastropub Crawl: the good and great among the new wave of British pubs
Can a new crop of British pubs push the comforting cuisine beyond stodgy pigs and puddings? Toronto is a town obsessed with the...
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We dropped by the Great Toronto Tartare-off to discover a meatetarian frenzy
Last night, Grapes for Humanity corralled some of the city’s top culinary talent under one roof (that of the Fairmont Royal York...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top seven spots to commune over a pint of beer (or three)
CHECK OUT ALL SEVEN PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST PLACE TO WATCH THE LEAFS GO DOWN | BEST LOCAVORE TAP ROOM| BEST PUB FOR BEER GEEKS |...
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Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
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Toronto’s five best restaurants to bring the kids along and eat well too
No frozen chicken fingers. Just five restaurants that satisfy young palates and keep the grown-ups happy (Image: The...
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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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Two foodie fundraisers set to benefit the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month
There’s a reason food and fundraisers go hand in hand: what better way to encourage patrons and sponsors to empty their wallets...
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With Sausage Partners, Kyle Deming plans to contribute yet another chef-run fine food shop to the Leslieville strip
First there was the Leslieville Cheese Market , then the Foodist Market , then Hooked , and now Sausage Partners . Leslieville is...
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The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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Get outside: Toronto’s 10 best patios
The patio season started early this year, which simply means there's more time to hit the city's best al fresco dining and...
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Five food trends we have a love-hate relationship with
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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Seven food trends we love
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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The Weekender: Canadian Music Week, early St. Paddy’s at the Ceili Cottage and six other things to do this weekend
Our guide to the weekend's best events includes Canadian Music Week, St. Practice Day at the Ceili Cottage and a modern version of...
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Best new restaurants 2010: James Chatto names five honourable mentions
Toronto Life 's annual ranking of the city's 10 best new restaurants is in our April issue, on newsstands now. Despite the...
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Shucker Paddy turns his patio into skating rink
Patrick McMurray is getting into the Olympic spirit by flooding the front patio of his Leslieville restaurant The Ceili Cottage...
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Toronto’s five best microbrews
Local microbreweries are experimenting with bold flavours, creating surprising and original beers. Here, the best pints and where...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business