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Indian Rice Factory closes after 43 years on Dupont
In restaurant years, making it to the five year mark is a laudable accomplishment. Indian Rice Factory, one of the city’s first...
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The latest victim of Toronto’s condo-building mania: Yorkville’s beloved Cookbook Store
The Cookbook Store, the 30-year-old shop at Yonge and Yorkville, is moving out of its digs to make way for—you guessed...
Food & Drink
Chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe closes Keriwa; announces a posh members-only wine club
After two years and a few conceptual hiccups, it was three feet of sewage backup that dealt the fatal blow to Keriwa, one of the...
Food & Drink
A-OK Foods serves its last bowl of ramen on October 30
A-OK Foods, the Asian snack bar on Queen West, is closing at the end of October. A-OK helped fill the culinary void last fall when...
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Didier Leroy is closing his midtown bistro after almost a decade
Didier, the Yonge Street bistro from Master Chef Didier Leroy, is closing. The midtown restaurant, which opened in 2004, catered...
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Ici Bistro chef J.P. Challet closed his Leslieville bakery
Le Matin, the French bakery from Ici Bistro chef and culinary jack-of-all-trades J.P. Challet, is closed. The little pastry shop...
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College West seafood shack Red Fish is closed
The restaurant from the former chef of Fishbar on Ossington opened last summer to positive reviews for its dainty fish charcuterie...
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Leslieville takeout counter Paulette’s Original Donuts and Chicken is closing
Paulette’s Original Donuts and Chicken, the snack bar–bakery hybrid on Queen East, is closing this week to make way for a...
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Hoof Raw Bar, The Black Hoof’s pescatarian offshoot, is closed
If there’s one thing Toronto restaurateur and power-tweeter Jen Agg knows, it’s how to keep things interesting. Since the...
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Sausage Partners is being replaced by a third Olliffe location
For over a month, Leslieville meat shop Sausage Partners has been suspiciously “closed for renovations.” Now Rosedale butcher...
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Ella M’a Dit will serve its last meal at the end of month
Restaurateurs Gregory Furstoss and Tory Yang took to Twitter over the weekend to announce that they’re shuttering Toronto’s...
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Tati Bistro is closing next month
After nearly six years on Harbord Street, Tati Bistro is winding down. Co-owners Wayne Parent and Whitney Brown made the...
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Jamie Kennedy is stepping away from the café at the Gardiner Museum
On the same day that the ROM revealed that it’s closing C5, The Gardiner Museum, across the street, announced its own changing...
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The ROM’s once-lofty C5 is closing at the end of the month
After six years, two head chefs and a dramatic culinary shift, the restaurant on the top floor of the ROM’ s Michael Lee-Chin...
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Queen East bar The Avro is closing in April
Riverside’s The Avro is shutting down after three years on the strip, following a request from its landlord for double the...
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Smoke BBQ House is reopening with new ownership and a slightly different name (UPDATED)
Smoke BBQ House has shut its doors after only three months on Harbord Street. The southern barbecue restaurant announced the news...
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Karma Co-Op may be forced to close by June
The Annex’s 40-year-old Karma Co-Op will likely close its doors this June unless it can procure at least 100 new members and...
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Centro is shutting its doors for good in one week
Centro , the old-school Italian power restaurant at Yonge and Eglinton, is closing on March 2, and owner Armando Mano is opening...
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Claudio Aprile is closing Colborne Lane
Claudio Aprile, the chef and owner of Colborne Lane, revealed this afternoon that he’s closing his six-year-old restaurant, the...
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Captain John’s may soon set sail for Hamilton
The long and sad story of the demise of Captain John’s Seafood Restaurant may soon reach an unexpected end: a Hamilton...
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Queen West’s Cowbell closes after six years
Mark Cutrara announced the end of his six-year-old Queen West farm-to-table restaurant over the weekend. Cowbell was a forerunner...
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Queen West’s Prague European Kitchen closes after only five months
Late last summer, the decades-old Prague Find Food Emporium reopened under new ownership as Prague European Kitchen. Now, a notice...
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Aravind calls it quits on The Danforth
After just over two years on the Danforth, Aravind, which had earned a reputation for serving some of the most sophisticated...
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Vegan stalwart Fressen calls it quits
Queen West’s upscale vegan eatery Fressen announced on Facebook and Twitter that it will be closing its doors for good at the...
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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
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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
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Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
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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
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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
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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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