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Food & Drink
Best Bars: Toronto’s top 16 cocktail lounges, dives and speakeasies
CHECK OUT ALL 16 COCKTAIL PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST ROOFTOP TIPPLES | CLASSIEST DRINKS IN A DIVE | BEST DRINKS AFTER A 12-HOUR DAY |...
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Food & Drink
Best Bars: Two meticulously calibrated elixirs at Brassaii and Barchef (some assembly required)
Brassaii’s Campfire Coffee 461 King St. W., 416-598-4730 Booze slinger Jordan Stacey turns the common specialty coffee into a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Lucid, Moses McIntee’s molecularly inclined cocktail bar and restaurant on Queen West
Sure, it might seem a tad inauspicious being the following act to the absurdly short-lived Bohemiam Gastropub and its similarly...
Food & Drink
POLL: How much should you tip for fancy, pricy cocktails?
Over at the advice section of the New York Times Dining Journal, Florence Fabricant writes: Of course, even if bartenders are...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Gusto 101, a new King West Italian joint that’s got wine on tap (from the basement winery)
Gusto 101, the latest shiny new thing to appear in the perpetually-in-construction King West neighbourhood, opened its doors last...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ursa, a new Queen West restaurant serving modern Canadian cuisine (that’s secretly good for you too)
Back in July, the owners of Trinity-Bellwoods staple Bar One announced they were shutting its doors after an 11-year run. Six...
Food & Drink
Demand for fancy cocktail ice spurs Chilean man to steal five tonnes’ worth—from a glacier
Seizing on a new and unique way to sucker people into paying exorbitant prices for water-based products, a man in Chile chipped...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is arriving late to parties just part of Toronto culture?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved to Toronto from Tokyo about a year ago. Maybe it’s just a difference in cultures, but no one shows...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bar Neon, a new Bloordale watering hole with some ambitious grub
When Bar Neon opened last month, it became Bloordale’s answer to the trend embodied by places like Grand Electric and 416 Snack...
Shopping
Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap 2012: everything you need for a cost-effective happy hour
By Andrew D’Cruz, Matthew Hague, Rachel Heinrichs, Emily Landau, David Lawrason, Jason McBride, Mark Pupo, Peter Saltsman and...
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Food & Drink
Bar star Moses McIntee to open Lucid Cocktail and Kitchen this month
Toronto cocktail lovers take note—word on the street is one of the city’s most inventive mixologists, Moses McIntee, is back...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Pizzeria Defina, Diana’s Oyster Bar and the Hoof Cocktail Bar
Thin-crust lust in Roncey, impeccable seafood in Scarborough and double-digit cocktails on Dundas West PIZZERIA DEFINA 321...
Food & Drink
True Grits: Chris Nuttall-Smith on Acadia’s sublime Lowcountry cooking
There are things you don’t expect in a cheap, casual Little Italy restaurant with a mediocre wine list. You don’t expect to...
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Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: How to be Don Draper (er, Jon Hamm)
One of the many A-list celebrities to grace Toronto’s streets last week for TIFF 2011 was none other than Jon Hamm himself—or...
Food & Drink
Introducing: the second stop on the Drake Dining Roadshow, 1940s L.A. Chinatown
Back in June, we told you about the Drake Hotel’ s Dining Roadshow , a series of thematically changing restaurant concepts...
Food & Drink
Attention food science nerds: Foodpairing.com’s Bernard Lahousse brings taste into the lab in two talks this week
Chefs often speak of perfect pairings, particularly in food and wine. While most accept that certain flavour combinations just...
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Culture
Round 3, fight! More TIFF cocktails to help loosen us up when we’re three feet away from Ryan Gosling
The TIFF cocktails keep coming, because sometimes it’s difficult to fraternize with A- to D-listers without the aid of some kind...
Food & Drink
The vodka backlash backlash is here, apparently
Today’s Globe and Mail has a piece about the anti-vodka movement, championed by people like the Black Hoof’ s Jen Agg, and the...
Culture
More TIFF 2011 cocktails that will keep us buzzed among the buzzy
We are 10 days away from the booze-soaked celebrity circus otherwise known as the Toronto International Film Festival, and the...
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Culture
The annual list of celeb-inspired TIFF cocktails is out (with nary a Canadian to be seen)
Two weeks away from the start of the Toronto International Film Festival, official sponsor Skyy Vodka kicked things off with its...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Williams Landing, a new Liberty Village spot with a prime patio
Although it’s only been open for two weeks, Williams Landing Bar, Grill and Hub has quickly become one of Liberty Village’s...
Food & Drink
The Black Hoof’s Jen Agg takes on the latest cocktail trend—barrel aging
Inspired by the experiments of Portland bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler , forward-thinking mixologists across the continent have...
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Introducing: Le Canard Mort, the new Leslieville restaurant and cocktail bar from the people behind Le Rossignol
The beloved neighbourhood watering hole Barrio shuttered its French doors last summer, and hungry Leslievillers have been gazing...
Food & Drink
DIY Barbecue Guide: how to make the Drake’s sweet, sour and bitter Cucumber Smash
Created by The Drake Hotel’s bar manager, Jon Humphrey, the Cucumber Smash is a tight balance of sweet, sour and bitter with a...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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