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Brad Long to shutter Veritas; Betty’s owners to move in
After almost five years, chef Brad Long is quietly handing over Veritas, his “local fare” restaurant on King Street East, to...
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Food & Drink
L.A.B., College Street’s molecular kitchen, takes its last breath
Living and breathing no more, L.A.B., the often-experimental College Street restaurant, shuttered last week after two years. The...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in February
Even in the winter, it can be hard to keep pace with all the restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is...
Food & Drink
European Quality Meats to end its five-decade run in Kensington Market
After more than 50 years of purveying pork and selling salami, Kensington Market institution European Quality Meats and Sausages...
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Food & Drink
Real Jerk landlord seeks to overturn injunction, calls judge’s decision “astonishing”
In what’s turning into the Toronto restaurant story that just won’t die, Bill Mandelbaum, the new owner of the Queen Street...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk wins the right to stay put (Injunction: 1; Eviction: 0)
The eviction saga that cast Real Jerk owners Ed and Lily Pottinger as Davids against Bill Mandelbaum ’ s Goliath is over (for...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk calls in the lawyers (well, one of them) to fight eviction
Ever since the The Real Jerk’ s new landlord told the Caribbean resto to close up and move on, owners Ed and Lily Pottinger have...
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Food & Drink
Steve Gonzalez to fill in at Niagara Street Café as owner Anton Potvin readies it for sale
Last week we reported that Nick Liu is leaving Niagara Street Café to open his own place, an Asian brasserie. As it turns...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk fights closure with protest and online petition
After Riverside landmark The Real Jerk announced it was being forced to close its doors (as a result of its building being...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk, Riverside’s cult favourite Jamaican restaurant, gets an eviction notice
The iconic smiling sun that’s shone down on the corner of Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue for the last 22 years is about...
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Food & Drink
Danforth fixture The Cook’s Place to pack it in after 14 years
After supplying Toronto with coveted Japanese knives, top-of-the-line cookware and innumerable last-minute foodie gifts for 14...
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Roncesvalles staple Granowska’s Bakery to serve its last paczki at the end of the month
On the morning of Thursday, June 13, 1972, after three straight days of baking, Elizabeth Klodas and her mother Maria opened the...
Food & Drink
Carlos Hernandez shutters Inigo, the churrasqueira in Igor Kenk’s infamous bike shop
After just under a year in business, it seems that Inigo, the churrasqueira at the foot of Trinity Bellwoods Park, has shut its...
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Food & Drink
Liberty Belle Bistro shuts its doors
Diners phoning in to make a reservation at Liberty Belle Bistro have been met for a few weeks now with a recording saying the...
Food & Drink
Rising rents on Queen East push out Red Rocket Coffee, which is moving to the Danforth instead
Leslieville’s Red Rocket Coffee has been forced to close up shop after its landlord doubled the rent to $49 per square...
Food & Drink
Midtown’s Lai Toh Heen to close in September
Metropolitan Hotels put out a press release yesterday afternoon announcing that Lai Toh Heen, the cheaper Davisville cousin of...
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City’s average burger price plummets with closure of M:brgr’s King West location
On Tuesday, we heard through the grapevine from Montreal food journalist Lesley Chesterman that the Toronto location of M:brgr...
Food & Drink
It’s official: Duggan’s Brewery has served its last pint
Not long ago, it seemed as though brew and gastropubs were on the rise in Toronto, but a couple of recent closures are giving us...
Food & Drink
Yorkville’s redesign kicks street food vendors off the curb
The costly Bloor Street Transformation Project (BSTP) may have added flowerpots, trees and benches to the widened granite...
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Sick Kids dumps Burger King from food court, but Pizza Pizza and Subway remain
A minor victory for anti–junk food forces came last week as the creepy despot of the beef kingdom, Burger King , served its last...
Food & Drink
Open Window may be closed for good
Even delivery truck drivers were surprised to find that Open Window Bakery, one of Toronto’s most venerable family-run...
Food & Drink
Hipster temple Oddfellows to close in February
Oddfellows— the only Queen West hipster hangout with a roving Winnebago—is closing. Eye Weekly reported the news earlier...
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Ed Ho pulls out of plans to open an Earth 2 restaurant in Mississauga
After many months of demolition and construction, and many dollars spent, restaurateur Ed Ho (of Globe Bistro and Earth ) is...
Food & Drink
Start canning: world to run out of food around 2050
Here we were thinking that the coming century would herald nothing but flying cars, weird haircuts and sweet video games, but the...
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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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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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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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