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Christie Pits
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at the Fall Bright Tavern, a homey new spot in Christie Pits with out-of-this-world chocolate cake
And something called “olive roulette”
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Rosalu, an Italian snack bar and café inside a Christie Pits laundromat
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2.6 million for a Christie Pits classic sporting a twist on the bay and gable
The 3,000-square-foot home also comes with spa-like bathrooms, custom millwork, a basement unit and a backyard covered in ivy
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $2.9-million Christie Pits property that’s four homes for the price of one
See inside a newly renovated fourplex
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at NishDish, Toronto’s new Anishinabe café
Buffalo, venison, elk, pheasant and more
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2.4 million for a grand old Victorian near Christie Pits
A turreted, turn-of-the-century home with two apartments inside
Food & Drink
Gin flows freely at Bloor West speakeasy Civil Liberties
The Prohibition-style cocktail bar stocks up on the craft stuff
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Food & Drink
Apiecalypse Now is Christie Pits’ new vegan pizzeria
Vegan pizza lovers, rejoice! Though Apiecalypse Now shuttered its Markham Street bakeshop, it recently reopened as a vegan pizza...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bean and Baker, a ‘50s malt shop on Harbord
Name: Bean and Baker Malt Shop Neighbourhood: Christie Pits Contact: 326 Harbord St. , 416-536-7632, beanandbaker.com...
Real Estate News
Someone paid $2.9 million for the Metro Theatre
The Metro Theatre , near Bloor and Christie, closed late last year, ending its 35-year run as Toronto's most prominent (and...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $830,000 for a newly built laneway house near Christie Pits
Address: 2 Miles Place Neighbourhood: Dovercourt-Wallace-Emerson-Junction Agent: George B Niblock, Royal LePage Real Estate...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Northwood, a new Christie Pits café and cocktail bar
Name: Northwood Neighbourhood: Christie Pits Contact info: 815 Bloor St. W., Facebook page, @NorthwoodBloor Owners: Richard Pope...
Food & Drink
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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Real Estate News
Google Street View cars return to Toronto roadways
As promised, Google Street View’s hard-to-miss camera-on-tripod-on-car contraptions are back in the city for some much-needed...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Bristol Yard, a bit of Britain down by Christie Pits
The Bristol Yard is a new British-style cafe (that’s pronounced “caf,” not “café”) which opened a couple of weeks ago...
City News
Where to Buy Now: the inside scoop on the city’s next 10 neighbourhoods
In a relentlessly hot market, buyers are starved for great housing stock, prices that mortals can afford, walkable blocks with...
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City News
Where to Buy Now: Christie Pits, because good parks make good neighbours
Plagued by crime and patrolled by drug dealers, Christie Pits’s green spaces seemed doomed—until fed-up neighbours did...
Food & Drink
Nine members of Toronto’s backyard-chicken underground on the special bond between man and bird
On November 30, councillors Joe Mihevc and Mary-Margaret McMahon took on the considerable challenge of trying to overturn nearly...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best Korean food: Chris Nuttall-Smith makes his picks
Move over, sushi. Now there’s something sexier. The new Korean cuisine is exciting, modern and worth crossing town for National...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Toronto Pirate Cruise, the Honda Indy and six other must-dos
1. EXPRESSIONS OF BRAZIL Brazil is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse countries in the world—much like another...
City News
Hipsters cheer, cruisers jeer: G20 protest area moved from Trinity Bellwoods to Queen’s Park
Ironic picnics and post-brunch strolls will continue without disruption as cops issue a press release today about moving the...
Food & Drink
Next target in city’s war on fun: West Queen West
There was the moratorium on new restaurants on Ossington, the end of community pizza nights at Christie Pits and the brouhaha over...
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City News
Matt Galloway: 10 things I can’t live without
The new host of Metro Morning, the city’s top-rated wake-up show, shares 10 things he can’t live without Soccer season I’ve...
Food & Drink
City gives thumbs-down to community pizza nights and fun
First there was the liquor license debacle at Ici Bistro to prevent Harbord Street from turning into Skid Row, then the moratorium...
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Canada Day Bar Cart
Food & Drink
Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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
Buy Canadian
Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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