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Food & Drink
The rise of the indie coffee mini-empire
For Toronto coffee lovers, 2011 started in much the same way that 2010 finished: with further proof that the indie coffee craze...
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Food & Drink
Gerrard Street East Guide: our nine favourite places along Little India’s main drag
The shop lights on Gerrard Street East stay on till nine—a late-night tradition that started out with the old Bollywood movie...
Food & Drink
Foam craft: seven baristas show us their best latte art
Ten years ago, latte art was virtually unheard of in Toronto. Today, finding a rosetta, heart or tulip swirled into a latte is as...
City News
Coffee spill on United flight just one of many terrifying/hilarious incidents in Toronto airspace. Here are five more
The Toronto Star is reporting that a Chicago-Frankfurt flight made an emergency landing at Pearson after the plane’s...
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Food & Drink
David’s Tea comes closer to world domination, but can it survive in the coffee-loving Annex?
Last weekend, a new David's Tea location opened in the old Alex Cuts space along the Annex’s busy Bloor Street strip ($20...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Sense Appeal, a cafe with a “director of coffee extraction”
With an undeniable indie cafe explosion taking place, it's only a matter of time before Toronto’s coffee scene enters the realm...
Food & Drink
Starbucks’ Toronto recycling pilot program a success
Starbucks has finally proven that its paper cups are recyclable. Turns out that most paper drinking receptacles from Starbucks end...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Sam James Coffee Pocket, a second location for a local espresso guru
When Sam James set up his eponymous coffee shop on Harbord last year, some were skeptical that a business could thrive in such a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Slow Room, a coffee shop that dares to open between Lit and The Common
With new indie cafés opening in Toronto every month, it takes a lot of gumption to jump into the fray—especially if the new...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Big Guy’s Coffee Shop, Queen West’s latest coffeemonger
With a name like The Big Guy’s Coffee Shop , it’s tempting to think of Parkdale’s latest café as some kind of ironic jab at...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Thor Espresso Bar, which has “the coolest espresso machine on the planet”
There’s more to making good espresso than having really cool gadgets. That’s why Patrick Tu —who opened Thor Espresso Bar on...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Capital Espresso, Blondie’s café spinoff that’s come into its own (literally)
When Blondie’s opened at 1378 Queen Street West, it was the only high-end coffee shop on Parkdale’s main drag. There was a...
Food & Drink
Bloor West Village Guide: our 20 favourite places between High Park and the Humber
Though solidly yuppified, this erstwhile eastern European enclave has held on to its tradition of thriving small...
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Style
Dasani water for $3.50 and other fashion week economics
Let's not be coy—fashion week is a sponsorship extravaganza. Just look at the full title of the event—LG Fashion Week, Beauty...
Food & Drink
Phase two of Starbucks’ world domination plan: get baristas to slow down their beverage-making
Mark our words: this will not end well. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , Starbucks has instructed its baristas...
City News
Justin Bieber nail polish and seven other unusual celebrity endorsements
We thought it was weird (to say the least) when news came out over the weekend that Justin Bieber is collaborating with OPI on a...
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Toronto’s 13 new cafés: board games, Bohème and a resurrected waffle house
These days, the arrival of a new indie café on Queen West or in Leslieville is about as novel as a Gap opening in a mall, which...
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Introducing: Snakes and Lattes, the Annex’s clever new board games café
Not since the opening of Sam James have we seen so many re-tweets and wall postings about a new café. But it’s not the coffee...
Food & Drink
Nine amazing kitchen gadgets from Toronto’s restaurant kitchens
We’re all for home-cooked meals and comfort food, but let’s face it: people go to restaurants to order stuff they can’t...
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Food & Drink
The best way to get cheap coffee at Manic, I Deal, Crema and more
While the reasons to avoid corporate coffee shops are abundantly clear to any aficionado, there is now a new enticement to explore...
City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
Food & Drink
Free coffee! Sam James celebrates its birthday this weekend
It’s been a year since Sam James brought siphon coffee to the city, and the café is celebrating its first year with free java...
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“Coolest espresso machine on the planet” is coming to Toronto
Slayer is coming to Toronto. No, we’re not talking about the speed metal gods who brought us “Angel of Death,” but a...
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Best of the City 2010: tailors, exterminators and 13 other top helpers
grill-Cleaning Service The BBQ Guys 1-877-781-2277 There are few summer chores more unpleasant than cleaning the...
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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
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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