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Food & Drink
For only $200 a cup, you’ll soon be able to buy tea grown in panda dung
Tea drinkers finally have a drink as off-putting as kopi luwak to call their own. Reuters reports that An Yanshi, a businessman in...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Tori’s Bakeshop, a pretty new vegan bakery café in the Beach
About this time of year, the Beach starts to wake up from its winter slumber, which makes it a great time for Victoria Vaccher to...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Sam James on the leg up he’s gotten from the good folks at Starbucks
—Sam James, of Sam James Coffee Bar fame, musing on Metro Morning about the effect that coffee shop chains have on independent...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons announces plans for global domination (also: panini)
Yesterday, Tim Hortons announced a new expansion that sounds so aggressive you may want to make sure there isn’t one popping up...
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Food & Drink
Over a million Tassimo machines recalled for spraying hot water
Canadians who like their cuppa joe produced through futuristic robotic labour will be upset to learn that nearly a million Tassimo...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Playful Grounds, the new kid-friendly coffee shop in Little Italy
Playful Grounds has only been open a few days, but the kid-friendly College Street café is already garnering plenty of attention...
Food & Drink
With its new blonde roast, Starbucks ups the ante in its simmering coffee war with Tim Hortons
Like us, you’ve probably pondered Starbucks’ complete and total domination by asking, rhetorically, “What’ll they serve...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons adds new extra-large cup, outguns Starbucks
In news that’s already sending shock waves across the nation, Tim Hortons announced today that it’s introducing a new, larger...
Food & Drink
Sam James to open up shop in the Path
In this season of giving, it’s only fitting that Toronto’s favourite coffee son, Sam James, would announce he’s taking pity...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: an espresso maker for people who don’t drink coffee by the pod
Forget those multicoloured pod-based insta-macchiatos. This machine is for purists who like their coffee ground, tamped and...
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Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 30 fantastic presents for homebodies everywhere
For friends and family just moving into a new place or on the lookout for their next apartment, it’s nice to pick out gifts that...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 fantastic finds for the at-home butcher, baker and boozer
Everyone needs to eat, but some people have more refined palates than others. For the wine snobs and fine diners in your...
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Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 11 top-tier treats for over $500
The big-ticket items are what we’re all hoping to get for the holidays, and sometimes we’re special enough to be the recipient...
Food & Drink
Rising rents on Queen East push out Red Rocket Coffee, which is moving to the Danforth instead
Leslieville’s Red Rocket Coffee has been forced to close up shop after its landlord doubled the rent to $49 per square...
Food & Drink
Taste testing the new Tim Hortons espresso drinks with Bulldog Coffee’s Stuart Ross
Monday marked the arrival of the new line of Tim Hortons “premium espresso”–based drinks we told you about a couple weeks...
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City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
Food & Drink
Latte sippers rejoice: Starbucks just started taking mobile payments in Canada
Starting today, Toronto’s latte-sipping elite will be able to get their caffeine fix that much more quickly with the Canadian...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a delicate rainbow trout at a Spadina Avenue café
At noon, a queue snakes out from the mezzanine barista bar and kitchen at Sense Appeal, the King and Spadina café with its own...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons to bring espresso to the 99 per cent
Tim Hortons, that Canadian bastion of par-baked doughnuts and extreme folksiness , announced yesterday that it will soon be making...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Alimento, King West’s bright new Italian fine food shop and cheesemaker
For over a year, the windows on the northwest corner of King and Brant have sported signs reading “Alimento Fine Food Emporium:...
Food & Drink
With news of price hikes at Starbucks, we called around to see what indie shops are charging for their coffee
On Tuesday, the Toronto Star reported that Starbucks had raised its prices for coffee and other beverages across the country by...
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Food & Drink
At last weekend’s Toronto Underground Market, 25 food vendors got creative with the rules
After much anticipation, 1,500 of Toronto’s keenest foodies filled the Evergreen Brick Works this Saturday for the inaugural...
Food & Drink
“Stuff of Canadian legend”: locals and expats react to the new Dubai Tim Hortons
We’re pretty sure that Tim Hortons brass were excited to set up shop in Dubai last weekend, but going by initial...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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