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Cold Tea
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Sunnys Chinese’s brand-new patio in the old Cold Tea space
Including dan dan noodles, boozy slushies and bubble tea cocktails
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Food & Drink
The 30 best bars in Toronto
From molecular cocktails to top-notch tap lists, these are our favourite places to drink in the city right now
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best neighbourhood bars and pubs
Not breweries, not cocktail bars, just good old-fashioned watering holes
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best cocktail bars right now
Our favourite places for boozy libations
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Eric Brass, the CEO of Tequila Tromba
A few of the things it's stocked with: bagels, blueberries, peanut butter and booze—so much booze.
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Juanmoto, Cold Tea’s new Asian–South American restaurant
Out with dumplings, in with Leemo Han’s fun fusion
Food & Drink
An insider’s guide to Kensington Market’s best restaurants, take-out spots and food shops
Kensington resident Corey Mintz on his go-to market gems
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Real Weddings: Inside a quirky ceremony at a Kensington bar
What happens when an extremely laid-back couple gets married
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Valdez chef Steve Gonzalez
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: instant noodles, smiley-face hash browns and a whole lotta pigs
Food & Drink
See Steven Page eat illegal food on Travel + Escape’s new show, The Illegal Eater
This past summer, former Barenaked Ladies front man and consummate foodie, Steven Page , touched down in Hogtown to highlight the...
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Food & Drink
Five spicy, soul-warming Toronto cocktails to lure you out of hibernation
These Toronto cocktails, loaded with spices, fruits and syrups, are perfectly calibrated to take the edge off a cold, dreary...
Food & Drink
10 deliciously boozy Toronto cocktails for $10 or less
Somehow, we’re not sure when exactly, we became inured to $16 cocktails in Toronto. So much so that anything for $10 or less has...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in November
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Introducing: Mr. Pong’s Bar, a new Little Portugal watering hole from the people behind Cold Tea
Mr. Pong’s Real Food, the Canadian-Chinese restaurant that provided fuel for so many late nights on Queen West in the...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Vice’s Munchies series takes a look at The Black Hoof
Munchies is a Vice web TV show in which the producers basically hang out with a bunch of hipster restaurateurs and chefs as they...
Food & Drink
Here’s where Anthony Bourdain stopped by during his Toronto layover
Regular Dish readers will know that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s favourite bad-boy chef–turned–professional eater was in town last...
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All Mixed Up: Watch Cold Tea’s Sarah Parniak make a Lucky Peach, her twist on a bourbon sour
Cold Tea is tucked away in the back of the Kensington Mall, down a long hallway and behind a door with a small window and a single...
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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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
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
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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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