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Sort-of Secret: Alice Marie, a new Leslieville bakery and coffee shop with a cult following
Pastry chef Rachelle Cornish left her post at Michelin-recommended White Lily Diner to open this sweet spot
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What’s on the menu at Kwento x Nile Coffee Bar, the new collaborative space serving up major cakes and modern coffee
Including elaborate cupcakes and soul-reviving espresso tonics
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Sort-of Secret: Full of Beans, a Little Portugal café with its own 115-year-old roaster
Owner Lori Nytko likes to do things the old-fashioned way
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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
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Toronto’s best coffee roasters
Our favourite places to scoop up single-origin specimens and balanced blends
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An extremely rare coffee is on the menu at The Ritz-Carlton, thanks to a herd of Thai elephants
Move over, kopi luwak
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Inside Toronto’s first Reserve Bar, Starbucks’ new 3,200-square-foot shrine to coffee
It's like Starbucks, but fancier
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I rid my coffee shop of space-hogging stroller moms?
"There’s only one place to grab a decent coffee en route, and it’s always packed with the same gaggle of moms"
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Constantinople is Queen West’s new Turkish café
Now open for some afternoon (Turkish) delight
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Station Cold Brew opens a bottle shop in the Junction Triangle
This time, the drink being kegged and tapped isn't beer, it's coffee
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Life
A close-up look at Toronto’s first cat café (and its furry residents)
Inside TOT the Cat Café, where coffee isn't the main attraction
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Five refreshingly boozy cold-brew cocktails
Across the city, Toronto baristas are pouring thirst-quenching cold brew, the hyper-trendy coffee drink that's steeped for up to...
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PayPal wants to fund your morning coffee run for a week
It's easy to get grumpy and confused about all the new payment-related apps out there (what's wrong with old-fashioned...
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Ditching the danish, and four more ways Tim Hortons is trying to stay relevant
Tim Hortons, once Canada’s reigning coffee chain, has tumbled from its throne. Starbucks shops are everywhere, indie cafés are...
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The newest café to hit Queen East has a little Latin flair
Hola, the latest addition to the well-caffeinated Queen East strip, gets its funky Latin vibe from owner Cesar Penalver, who hails...
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Canadians are a surprisingly caffeinated people, according to a new study
Maybe it's the Timmy's count per block, or perhaps the brisk northern clime that makes everyone keen to sip something...
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A new indie coffeehouse brings caffeinated beverages (and Belgian waffles) to east Leslieville
Brickyard Grounds, a new café perched on the very eastern edge of Leslieville, is a comfortable place to take refuge on a...
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You can send Starbucks coffees to your friends over Twitter now
As of yesterday, Canadian social-media users can send more than just sparkling witticisms and insensitive ideological tirades over...
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Here’s College Street’s Empire Espresso, because no one should have to walk five minutes for a decent coffee
In café-riddled Toronto, it has been curiously difficult to find good coffee on the stretch of College Street between Lit...
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Introducing: Nespresso Boutique Bar, a 14,000-square-foot café and retail space in Yorkville from the Swiss coffee company
Name: Nespresso Boutique Bar Contact Info: 159 Cumberland St., nespresso.com, Neighbourhood: Yorkville Owner: Nespresso Canada...
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Tim Hortons’ first new coffee blend since 1964 “actually tastes like coffee”
After half a century pouring the same old brew, Timmies is branching out with a brand-new blend. The darker, bolder roast, made...
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Trend We Love: boutique-slash-coffee shops
While an in-store barista may not draw hordes of customers into a store, it can certainly encourage shoppers to linger—and...
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Store Guide: Easy Tiger Goods, a new lifestyle shop and coffee joint on Dundas West
Name: Easy Tiger Goods Sells: Home goods, stationery, grooming products, women’s apparel and accessories, and flowers, plus...
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Introducing: Fika, a charming new café in Kensington Market from Victor Barry and Nikki Leigh McKean
Name: FIKA Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 28 Kensington Ave., http://Fika.ca/, @Fikakensington. Owners: Nikki...
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions