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Cocktails
Food & Drink
Toronto bars are giving Jell-O shots all kinds of grown-up twists
Featuring bar recommendations, flavour ideas and a recipe for perfectly set shooters
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Canadian-made substitutes for American beer, wine and spirits
There’s never been a better time to drink local
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Twelve of Toronto’s best new happy hours
Where to find cheap drinks and snacks every day of the week
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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 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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A look inside Miracle on Bloor, a diabolically festive pop-up cocktail bar from the Civil Liberties elves
It’s time to dig those ugly Christmas sweaters out of the closet
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What’s on the menu at Aisle3, a Vietnamese snack and cocktail bar
Including deep-fried shrimp toast and a pho-infused old fashioned
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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
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Take a big sip of these cocktails built for two
Featuring recipe ideas, glassware recommendations and the best bars for doubling down on the city’s large-format cocktail trend
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Tropical cocktails are taking Toronto by storm
Recipe ideas, bar recommendations and canned favourites to quench your hot-weather tiki cravings
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What’s on the menu at Alice, Little Italy’s chic new spot for upscale diner fare
Including street-style corn, tomahawk steak and a bananas foster martini
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What’s on the menu at Martine’s Wine Bar, a nostalgic farm-to-table restaurant from the Bar Raval team
Including sea urchin–topped pasta and a cocktail menu stacked with classics
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What’s on the menu at Compton Ave., the new British cocktail bar from the BarChef team
That’s Compton, London
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Over-the-top cocktails are sweeping the city
Garnishes include cotton candy, dry-ice clouds and blazing pyrotechnics. Here, the Library Bar’s director of mixology explains the method to the madness
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What’s on the menu at Charlemagne, Café Renée’s second-floor speakeasy
Including an all-dumpling snack menu
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Super fizzy and ice cold, highballs are an exercise in simplicity
Featuring spirit ideas and bar recommendations for the city’s most understated sippers
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What’s on the menu at Bar Ardo, a new Sicilian-inspired cocktail bar
It’s from the team behind Italian restaurants Ardo and Dova
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What’s on the menu at Electric Bill, an Aussie-themed cocktail bar from the Civil Liberties team
Including sausage rolls, Marmite-glazed cabbage and mushroom “scallops”
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What’s on the menu at Lisbon Hotel, a new all-day café and cocktail bar in Corktown
But it’s not Portuguese or a hotel
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What’s on the menu at Mishree, a new 6,500-square-foot Indian restaurant and cocktail bar in Mississauga
There’s a cocktail under that bubble
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What’s on the menu at Lulu Bar, the Well’s new spot for tropical cocktails and everything mid-century modern
Including Spam skewers and DIY duck wraps
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What’s on the menu at Bar Notte, a St. Lawrence cocktail lounge serving Italian drinks and snacks until 2 a.m.
Including tartare-stuffed cannoli
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How to stock the perfect booze-free bar cart for Dry January
Featuring zero-ABV tips and tricks from Gord Hannah, corporate beverage manager at the Drake
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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
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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
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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
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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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