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Food & Drink
Sunnys Chinese is launching a summer barbecue series
And they’re collaborating with some of the city’s top chefs for each event
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Food & Drink
Why was Gordon Ramsay at these Toronto restaurants?
Maybe TV’s biggest food meanie was here to perfect the idiot sandwich
Food & Drink
What Toronto’s top chefs are serving at this year’s Chefs for Change
The dishes are inspired by their favourite childhood meals
Food & Drink
Five new eastern European–inspired restaurants for midwinter comfort food
Where to dig into hearty borscht, pork schnitzel and pierogies
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Food & Drink
“The gap between perceived value and the true cost of doing business is becoming unmanageable”: Chef David Schwartz on why your favourite restaurants close
Just because your go-to spot is always busy doesn’t mean it’s safe
Food & Drink
Going to a holiday party? Here’s what you should bring
Advice from Toronto chefs, designers and other industry experts
Food & Drink
Mimi Chinese is hosting one of BC’s most celebrated chefs for a collaboration dinner
Chef Bo Li of Vancouver’s the Fish Man is in town for one night only
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Food & Drink
Linny’s Steakhouse has a new sister deli serving massive sandwiches
Come for the pastrami, stay for the smoked fish salad and pickle seltzer
Food & Drink
Mimi Chinese now has three limited-time-only items on the menu at Shake Shack
Including a Sichuan-inspired fried chicken sandwich
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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A look at what 21 of Toronto’s top chefs served at this year’s Chefs for Change event
Reimagined childhood favourites from Masaki Saito, Patrick Kriss, David Schwartz and more
Food & Drink
“Not everybody needs a 10-course meal for romance”: Toronto chefs on their favourite date-night spots
Including a Pakistani kitchen, a French standby, a pizzeria and a dive bar
Food & Drink
“I would absolutely hate to see it close”: Toronto chefs on their favourite (older) restaurants
And what their go-to orders are at each
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Toronto Life’s
most popular food stories of 2024
Our top Q&As, memoirs, packages and restaurant openings
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Linny’s, chef David Schwartz’s new deli-inspired steakhouse
Including chicken liver toast, chocolate babka and caviar service
Deep Dives
The Mensch: Inside the culinary empire of Chinese-food king David Schwartz
The chef behind Mimi and Sunnys Chinese spent years mastering the cuisine of a culture not his own. Now, he’s risking it all to return to his roots
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Deep Dives
The Secret City: Insider tips that make life in Toronto easier, cheaper, tastier and way more fun
Prominent Torontonians divulge the hush-hush venues, one-of-a-kind treats and city hacks they leverage to get the most out of the GTA
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Inside
Toronto Life
’s Most Influential party, with Olivia Chow, Geoffrey Hinton, Cameron Bailey and more
Carley Fortune, David Schwartz and Bonnie Lysyk were also among the attendees of the exclusive bash at Canopy by Hilton Toronto Yorkville
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2023
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of David Schwartz, the executive chef at Sunnys Chinese
Featuring an army of sauces, six jars of peanut butter and a collection of antique spoons
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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
Food & Drink
Where chef David Schwartz eats Chinese food in Scarborough and North York
His favourite spots for chili chicken, lamb soup, braised pig's trotters and so many kinds of noodles
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Restaurants are toxic workplaces
Shaming, elitism and militaristic hierarchies have long been the norm
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Sunnys, the buzzy new Chinese restaurant in Kensington Market
From the people who brought you MIMI Chinese
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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
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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
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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