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Cocktails
Food & Drink
Booze-free beers, a phony negroni and 10 other actually good non-alcoholic drinks for Dry January
All of the taste, none of the hangover
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Good Company, a new Queen West café and cocktail bar (that’s also a barbershop)
For all your bagel tower, beer and buzz cut needs
Food & Drink
“I couldn’t put my energy into Toronto anymore”: Why the owner of Northwood closed his Christie Pits cocktail bar and opened one in Mexico
Instead of charging $24 a drink to cover his rising costs, Richard Pope decided to do business elsewhere
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at And/Ore, a whimsical new Queen West restaurant with a cave
Including all kinds of champagne by the glass and a cotton candy cocktail
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Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s festive holiday food-and-drink events, ranked
Including kitschy cocktails, brunch buffets and fancy fondue dinners
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Overpressure Club, a new Japanese-inspired cocktail bar in Bloorcourt
It’s the sister izakaya to Project Gigglewater
Food & Drink
The city’s latest cocktail trend is savoury, salty and sometimes even soupy
Featuring Project Gigglewater's pho-inspired cocktail along with other umami sips and home-bar essentials
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Food & Drink
Olive Twist: Six of Toronto’s best dirty martinis, ranked
Including one that comes with a caviar-stuffed pretzel bite
Food & Drink
A look inside Le Tigre, Rosedale’s new all-pink martini bar
It’s from the team behind Cry Baby Gallery
Food & Drink
Everything there is to drink at Civil Pours, Canada’s first draught cocktail bar and bottle shop
It’s from the libation experts behind Civil Liberties
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These Ontario-made canned cocktails are perfect for park picnics
Lean into the new legislation by cracking a cold one
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Dêm, a new Vietnamese speakeasy with an alleyway entrance
Including "photine" and deconstructed banh mi charcuterie
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Prequel & Co. Apothecary, a whimsical new Queen West cocktail lounge from the owner of BarChef
Just don't call it a speakeasy
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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
Food & Drink
Canadian-made eggnog, gingerbread gin, boozy hot cocoa and cocktail kits that make for excellent last-minute gifts
Just add a decorative bow
Food & Drink
Nine sparkling cocktails to drink right now that aren’t a negroni sbagliato (and one that is)
Bitter, boozy, and bubbly drinks by Toronto's best bartenders
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Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s best end-of-summer cocktails
Including highballs, hard seltzers and hibiscus margaritas
Food & Drink
The best new non-alcoholic drinks to get you through Dry January
Zero-proof hooch has come a long way since Near Beer
Food & Drink
A last-minute guide to local beer, wine and booze gifts (or because we could all use a drink right now)
If the Christmas parties are cancelled, these are sure to brighten your spirits
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Sort-of Secret: Cicchetto, a new line of Toronto-made tipples started by a chef and bartender
This ain't your nonna's limoncello
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at the Library Bar, the Royal York’s newly renovated cocktail lounge
Including the legendary Birdbath Martini, and more
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best canned and bottled cocktails
These ready-to-drink cocktails are pushing at-home happy hour to new heights
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Sort-of Secret: Radio Cocktails, a boutique virtual bar delivering bottled cocktails and salumi boards
A half-litre of negronis for only $29? Don't mind if we do
Food & Drink
Toronto bars are finally allowed to sell bottled cocktails to go. Here’s where to get them
Let someone else do the mixing for a change
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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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