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A downtown hotel is getting a Tokyo-style listening bar
Toki will bring vinyl, Japanese highballs and a food menu by chef Akira Back to the W Hotel
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Food & Drink
The most expensive cocktail at Parkdale’s newest bar is just $16
A team of industry experts is behind the Virginia
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This is Queen West’s newest spot for cocktails and nachos
A team of industry veterans is behind the Dirty Laundry
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This is what’s replacing the Dive Shop in Leslieville
When one cocktail bar closes, another one opens
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Yorkville’s new supper club and cocktail bar leans hard into luxury
Everyone’s getting caviaaaaaaar
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This pop-up café housed in a ’70s trailer is turning into a diner and late-night cocktail bar
The owners of Bodega Geary will open Geary Station early next year
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These Toronto bars are getting festive for the holiday season
Thirteen cozy and/or kitschy places to get into the spirit(s)
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Ossington’s new martini bar has a champagne vending machine
Small Talk, a martini bar and jazz club, is now open in the old Baby Huey space
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Five Toronto bars (and one castle) hosting creepy Halloween pop-ups
Spooky season is upon us
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Inside a charming new cocktail bar with an Asian-inspired menu and vintage McDonald’s seating
The siblings behind Lonely Diner were born into the bar business
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Leslieville’s new cocktail and snack bar feels like a ’70s dinner party
But, according to Bar Mini's chef, without the fondue
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A new cocktail bar is opening in the space beneath a west-end sushi spot
Uh Bar is a collaboration between team members from Slice of Life, 915 Dupont and Mother
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A popular steakhouse in Little Italy has opened a second-floor speakeasy
Bitters and Bloom is the new cocktail lounge above J’s Steak Frites on College Street
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This sort-of-secret rooftop patio serves cocktail pitchers and boozy ice cream sandwiches
In Good Spirits’ new outdoor space is perched four floors above Bay Street
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What’s on the menu at Bar Maaya, a moody new lounge serving over-the-top cocktails
Including traditional absinthe service
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What’s on the menu at No Vacancy, a swanky new cocktail bar on Ossington from the team behind Ghost Chicken
Including sweet and savoury boozy drinks, Japanese-inspired snacks and, yes, fried chicken (but only if you know to ask for it)
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What’s on the menu at Belle Isle, a new snack and cocktail bar in the east end
It’s the new sister spot to Lake Inez
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Twelve Toronto bars that have decked their halls for the holidays
Including a chic chalet and a gloriously gaudy cocktail bar
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What’s on the menu at Slice of Life, a kooky new cocktail bar with a laboratory in the basement
Ever had a cocktail made with parmesan cheese? Now you can
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What’s on the menu at Civil Works, a gorgeous new cocktail bar inside Waterworks Food Hall
Including drinks inspired by tom yum soup and al pastor tacos
Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s festive holiday food-and-drink events, ranked
Including kitschy cocktails, brunch buffets and fancy fondue dinners
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What’s on the menu at Overpressure Club, a new Japanese-inspired cocktail bar in Bloorcourt
It’s the sister izakaya to Project Gigglewater
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What’s on the menu at Paradise Grotto, a new tiki-inspired cocktail bar in the Entertainment District
Including Loco Moco burgers, pu pu platters and a lot of rum-based drinks
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What’s on the menu at Short Turn, a snazzy new cocktail spot on Queen West from the 416 Snack Bar team
Including a drink inspired by Michelle Rabin’s Miso Banana Upside Down Cake
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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
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
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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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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