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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bitter Melon, a new spot on Spadina for “Toronto Chinese” small plates and cocktails
Including a Taiwanese take on a Korean corn dog and tteokbokki with an Italian twist
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Real Estate News
Charles Pachter’s $10-million legacy museum is in a Chinatown laneway
It includes the artist’s numerous paintings and sculptures of Queen Elizabeth, the CN tower and, of course, moose
Food & Drink
What’s on the takeout menu at Banh Haus, Chinatown’s new spot for banh mi, vermicelli bowls and Vietnamese iced coffee
Also: a sandwich that uses a Vietnamese doughnut as its vessel
Food & Drink
Inside T&T Supermarket’s new downtown store at College and Spadina
Amenities include live seafood, rare produce, Cantonese barbecue, a bao sandwich station—and more than 10,000 items on the shelves
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Where chef Steve Gonzalez eats pho, tortas and doughnuts in Kensington Market and Chinatown
Four of his favourite spots, and what he orders at each one
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Green Tea, Chinatown’s new place for Hangzhou-style dishes
It's part of the new crop of mainland Chinese chains that have set their expansion sights on the Canadian market
Real Estate News
Rental of the Week: $10,000 per month to live in a renovated Victorian near Kensington Market
See inside a modernized home in one of the city's most eclectic neighbourhoods
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Omai, a new sake and temaki bar in Baldwin Village
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Food & Drink
Lunch Lesson: Getting schooled on Hakka Indian cuisine at Yueh Tung
"What you’re tasting is a legacy of war, colonialism, border conflict, unlawful imprisonment and migration"
Food & Drink
“I forgot how much I love this food”: Author Lily Cho explains the joy of the “generic Chinese” restaurant
Corey Mintz learns the power of a good chow mein from author and professor Lily Cho
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Lunch lesson: Getting schooled on noodles by two U of T profs in Chinatown
Corey Mintz gets schooled on noodles by two U of T profs
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Jackpot Chicken Rice, a Hainanese restaurant from the chef of Patois
If you guessed chicken and rice, you wouldn't be wrong
Food & Drink
Introducing: Provo FoodBar, a new place for cocktails and small plates
Ceviche, jambalaya and a whole lotta things on crostini
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Maker Pizza opens in Chinatown
And Parts and Labour's Matty Matheson designed the menu
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.5-million house that shows how Chinatown is changing
See inside an updated 19th-century home located steps from the Spadina strip
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Chinatown is getting a restaurant makeover
In Chinatown you can still find butcher shops with mahogany-skinned Peking ducks swinging in the windows and produce stands with...
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Lucky Red reopens as a licensed, late-night snack bar
After Banh Mi Boys co-owner David Chau shut down his Spadina Avenue spot, Lucky Red, last September after just a few months in...
Food & Drink
Introducing: R&D, Chinatown’s new Alvin Leung and Eric Chong co-production
Name : R&D Neighbourhood: Chinatown Contact: 241 Spadina Ave. , 416-586-1241, rdspadina.com , @RDSpadina Previously: Strada 241...
Food & Drink
Chinatown’s Banh Mi Boys sister shop, Lucky Red, is set to reopen
Lucky Red , the Chinatown bao shop from the Banh Mi Boys team, had all the hype it needed to be a hit. Then—just months after...
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Culture
Magical Mystery Tour: a map of Toronto’s fictional murders
Dead bodies are turning up all over the fictional cityscape. We’ve mapped out the grisliest murders in 10 titles Dead Politician...
City News
How do you make a three-storey-tall sculpture out of clothes, for Nuit Blanche?
There were more than 120 art projects on display at this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, the ninth edition of the all-night art...
Food & Drink
The Banh Mi Boys spin-off on Spadina is closed
Lucky Red lasted barely two months, which has to be some kind of record in the restaurant-folding department. There seemed to be a...
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Strada 241 says so long to Chinatown
There's been much talk lately—some optimistic, some less so—about the influx of trendy, not-particularly-Chinese restaurants...
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Introducing: Lucky Red, the new bao shop from the Banh Mi Boys brothers
Name: Lucky Red Neighbourhood: Chinatown Contact Info: 318 Spadina Ave., 416-792-8628, luckyredshop.com Previous Tenant:...
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative