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RIP Mr. Greenjeans
The Eaton Centre restaurant's popularity peaked around 1994, when a vocal jam session in the on-site Sing Your Heart Out booth was...
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The Coffee Mill closing after half a century
The midtown institution began churning out sandwiches and goulash in 1963, back when Yorkville was overrun with banjo-strumming...
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Bero in Leslieville is maybe, probably closed
We've been keeping a close eye on Bero, the high-concept kitchen on Queen East, which has been giving off a...
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Yours Truly on Ossington is closing
The restaurant will serve its final meals on September 30, according to an emailed statement from the owners Known for serving...
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Ossington loses its Peruvian dinner destination
A message on the website for Ardor Bistro , the year-old restaurant at 59 Ossington Avenue from the owners of Celestin , confirms...
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Craft Dogs on King Street is closed
The fancy dog shop, home to some of the city's most lovingly crafted street meat (including the Rob Ford–inspired "Crack...
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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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Leslieville is losing its cutest date spot
Swirl Wine Bar, the only place in Toronto to sip wine while snacking on Alice in Wonderland jars of paté and pickled eggs, is...
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Ossington is losing Delux, one of the strip’s oldest restaurants
All neighbourhoods evolve, but Ossington seems to be doing it faster than most. Now the strip is losing one of its most seasoned...
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The Guild calls it quits on Dundas West
The Guild may be the latest restaurant to fall victim to Toronto’s oversaturated dining market. BlogTO reports that the roomy...
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Happy Child closes; west-end revelers lose a late-night snack destination
With dozens of late-night snack bars now populating Toronto’s west end, statistics alone seemed to guarantee that not all of...
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Riverdale residents say goodbye to Ruby Eats, Lynn Crawford’s gourmet grocery store
Ruby Eats, the gourmet grocery store from celebri-chef Lynn Crawford, is soon to close. For many, the Riverside shop was an easy...
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Changing of the French guard: Mount Pleasant’s Mogette is the latest Toronto bistro to call it quits
For years, Toronto’s bistro scene has been relatively immune to the foodie fickleness that’s seen other restaurants’...
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Patachou is closing its pair of Toronto patisseries
For 35 years, Toronto patisserie and café Patachou has been sustaining Rosedalers (and, more recently, St. Clair West residents)...
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Petite Thuet’s financial district shop closing in April
For the past five years, local gourmet food chain Petite Thuet' s One King West outpost has been nourishing downtowners with fresh...
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Little Italy restaurant Grace calls it quits after six years on College Street
When it opened in 2008, Grace stood out among Little Italy’s unremarkable collection of tired trattorias. Since then, the...
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Dundas West restaurant Brockton General is closing in March
After a nearly four-year run on Dundas West, Brockton General will be shutting its doors for good in early March. The restaurant...
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Phil’s Original BBQ closes after two decades at College and Ossington
Phil’s Original BBQ, the west-end restaurant that introduced Torontonians to slow-smoked ribs and brisket, is closed. According...
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The Mad Italian closes its doors after sane moment of epiphany
The Mad Italian Gelato Bar seemed to be on an upward trajectory over the past few years, having expanded twice from its original...
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Dyne closes after just over a year on Avenue Road
Despite its proximity to Yorkville mainstays Sotto Sotto and Spuntini, 120 Avenue Road has been a tricky address for...
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Ethiopian restaurant Addis Ababa may be closed after 20 years on Queen West
Toronto is quickly running out of options for Ethiopian cuisine. As reported in The Grid, M&B Yummy closed last fall, followed by...
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Ossington party destination Levack Block is no more
When Levack Block opened at the corner of Ossington and Humbert, it was the shiniest, least decrepit storefront on a...
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Changes are afoot at Pastis, the longstanding Rosedale bistro
The future of Rosedale restaurant Pastis is uncertain as new owners prepare to take over the space. Owner Georges Gurnon, who...
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Claudio Aprile’s Origin chain loses its Liberty Village location
Every time restaurateur and super chef Claudio Aprile opens a new restaurant, he seems to close one shortly after. Last year, he...
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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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