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Food & Drink
Must-Try: hot chocolate with sinfully good blowtorched marshmallows at Bobbette and Belle
Toboggans and cross-country skis, woolly sweaters and brisk sub-zero air call for piping hot chocolate. The Leslieville dessert...
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Real Estate News
Nestlé turns NIMBY over a proposed mixed-use development near its Junction factory
With the support of nearby residents, local developer Castlepoint Realty has proposed 45 new townhouses, several office towers...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens, downtown’s enormous new food emporium
When a heritage building like Maple Leaf Gardens is renovated, there’s always a concern that whatever goes inside will gut the...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from chimpanzees to zucchinis
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from the best chocolate maker to a shimmering satyr
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
Food & Drink
Why Greek wines are about to become the next big thing
Greek wines are as intriguing as their popular French and Italian counterparts, and they’re half the price Pine-scented retsina...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Seven ways to have a great time (bowling and bachelor parties included)
Ten-pin Queue Spot for a bachelor party Spot for a bridal party Yacht rental Saltwater dip Exercise craze Bathurst Bowlerama 2788...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Hammersmith’s, Riverdale’s newest spot for scones and other breakfast favourites
Hammersmith’s , the brainchild of boyfriend-girlfriend duo Brittany Peglar and Colin Reed , is a new brunch spot in brunch-laden...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Soma Chocolatemaker, the new King West location of the Distillery chocolate shop
David Castellan and his wife Cynthia Leung are as proud as new parents of the beautiful, 3,000-square-foot space that is the new...
Food & Drink
The Revue screens Kings of Pastry doc as part of foodie film series
Attention pastry nerds: you might want to consider cancelling your evening plans, because tonight The Revue on Roncesvalles is...
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City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 44, The Lightbox serves Milk Duds
The assets of the Lightbox, the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival, are many: the intelligent movie...
Food & Drink
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.31, Southern Ontario’s craft brewers are making unique and tasty beer
It wasn’t so long ago that the only beer available in Toronto was flavourless and the colour of straw. Now we’re spoiled for...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Nadège Patisserie. Queen West’s prettiest pastry shop joins the five thieves in Rosedale
Fourth-generation confectioner Nadège Nourian won over many Toronto palates when she opened her eponymous Queen West bakery and...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: ethnic stuff white people like
First off, a confession: focusing on Top Chef Canada last night, as the ground-shaking results from the election poured in, was a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Petite and Sweet, a new Summerhill sweet shop and event planning boutique
What do you get when you put two high-end event planners and a cake decorator together? Petite and Sweet , a new Summerhill...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Lion King, Easter Eggstravaganza and six other can’t-miss events
1. THE LION KING You wouldn’t think a theatrical adaptation of a Disney movie would run for so long (nearly 14 years), earn so...
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Food & Drink
Coco Rogue to bring stylish chocolates and desserts to Yonge and Eglinton
Yonge and Eglinton is a neighbourhood that loves its cafés and bakeries (witness the Cupcake Shoppe , La Bohème , the Designer...
Food & Drink
Rosedale-Summerhill Guide: 23 need-to-know places along Yonge Street’s poshest stretch
Yonge Street’s poshest stretch, from Ramsden Park up to the Summerhill LCBO, has two strong suits: food and decor. Locals from...
Food & Drink
New bacon inhaler (yes, that’s right) arrives right on trend
A couple of years back, we told you about Le Whif, a French product that allows you to taste chocolate without the hassle of...
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Food & Drink
12 trends we observed at 2011’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Yesterday we reported the results of the second annual Canadian Chef Survey of menu trends. The relatively predictable list might...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Primal Grind, a sugar- and dairy-free café in a crossfit gym (no, really)
Toronto’s independent coffee scene has boomed in the past year. With that rapid growth has come new levels of coffee...
City News
Gravy found! Some of the juiciest bits of fat in the TCHC audit will get in the way of the real scandal
By now the whole city knows the story of the city’s auditor general’s report [PDF] on the Toronto Community Housing...
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Food & Drink
Soma, the Distillery’s chocolate mecca, to open new downtown café
It takes time to coax a cacao bean into chocolate, and it took seven years for David Castellan and Cynthia Leung , Soma ’s...
Food & Drink
Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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!”
Just Listed
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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