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Cocktails
Food & Drink
Introducing: Provo FoodBar, a new place for cocktails and small plates
Ceviche, jambalaya and a whole lotta things on crostini
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Food & Drink
The Cloak is Marben’s new cocktail bar
Fancy a Banksy or a Mr. Bean?
Food & Drink
How to get a taste of the tropics without leaving Toronto
Secret no. 1 to making the most of the city this chilly season
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Shameful Tiki Room, a Polynesian paradise in Parkdale
This is the second tiki bar for the west-end neighbourhood
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Food & Drink
At Northern Belle, shrubs are back in bloom
Not the garden variety, but the cocktail mixer
Food & Drink
The Walton is Little Italy’s new morning-to-night spot
It's a café! It's a cocktail bar! It's both!
Food & Drink
Blender not required
The bartender of Parkdale's Polynesian spot, Miss Thing's, on how to drink rum (without cutesy umbrellas)
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Grey Tiger, a vegan bar and café, is now open in Bloordale
Vegans now have a second reason to visit Bloordale: the recently opened Grey Tiger (which the owners named after their rescued...
Food & Drink
Bittersweet Symphony: vermouth, the light, refreshing, versatile aperitif, is back
For years, Toronto bar lists have favoured ballsy amber liquors (bourbons, ryes and the like) for building powerhouse...
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A breakdown of BarChef’s Abstract Ice, a cocktail you eat with a spoon
Since 2009, Frankie Solarik of Queen West's BarChef has been rattling the cocktail scene with hyper-modernist elixirs, like the...
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Food & Drink
How do you make a hi-tech cocktail?
At Rush Lane, the Queen West snack bar and experimental cocktail laboratory, Jordan Bushell and Simon Hooper craft complex...
Food & Drink
Top Five: Toronto’s best rum cocktails
Five innovative takes on the classic pirate’s grog At the County General, bartender Jeff Carroll creates a tart, fruity punch...
Food & Drink
Toronto Craft Beer Bonanza 2014: The New Brews
A summery guide to Toronto’s micro-beer scene Just when you think Toronto’s craft beer obsession has peaked, a new collection...
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Toronto Craft Beer Bonanza 2014: Taming of the Brew
As temperatures rise, look to beer cocktails for light, low-alcohol refreshment Beer cocktails used to mean whiskey-and-lager...
Food & Drink
Get tipsy for a good cause during Toronto Negroni Week
There must be a certain science to deciding which foods and drinks deserve to have entire weeks of the year cordoned off in their...
Food & Drink
Six inspired vodka infusions to help you create cocktails like a pro mixologist
Aja Sax, bartender at the new Dufferin Grove gastropub The Huntsman, on how to custom-flavour your vodka—and what to do with it...
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Shopping
What to Wear to Christmas Parties: tuxedo blazers, skater skirts and more top trends for the holiday season
The holiday season brings with it a certain set of headaches: wacky relatives coming to stay, panicked shopping trips, and the...
Food & Drink
Rye High: a recipe for the ultimate Canada Day punch from The Emerson’s Aja Sax
Canadian rye now rivals bourbon as bartenders’ brown booze of choice. Here, Aja Sax, the cocktail savant at The Emerson, shares...
Food & Drink
Gallery: Toronto Life hosts the Art of the Cocktail at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Two hundred people packed the Malaparte event space on the sixth-floor of the TIFF Bell Lighbox last Thursday for our first-ever...
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Introducing: Ardor Bistro, a new Peruvian restaurant on Ossington from the owners of Celestin
Name: Ardor Bistro Neighbourhood: Ossington Contact Info: 59 Ossington Ave., 647-351-5100 Owners: Brothers Ivan Tarazona and James...
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A summer oyster bar is joining the eclectic mix at 99 Sudbury
The sprawling former glass factory at 99 Sudbury St., tucked between West Queen West and Liberty Village, has seen all kinds of...
Food & Drink
Recipe: Lucien Gaudin, a citrusy cocktail from the Toronto Temperance Society
PREP TIME: 2 minutes Serves 1 LUCIEN GAUDIN 1 oz gin, preferably Plymouth ½ oz Campari ½ oz dry vermouth ½ oz Cointreau Stir...
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Recipe: Normandier, a finely tuned Calvados cocktail from GwaiLo’s Christina Kuypers
PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 2 days Serves 1 SPICED APPLE SHRUB 2 cups water 2 cinnamon sticks...
Food & Drink
Foodie Find: potent Xocolatl Mole bitters
A couple dashes of the right bitters can elevate a mere mixed drink into a true cocktail. The Xocolatl Mole bitters from...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’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
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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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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