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Sort-of Secret: Yan Dining Room, chef Eva Chin’s new neo-Chinese dinner series at Hong Shing
“Every meal should feel like a celebration—like I’m welcoming you into my home for a feast”
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Sort-of Secret: Oui Aïa, a monthly supper club held at a private location in downtown Toronto
The address is revealed to guests only after they’ve purchased tickets
Food & Drink
A snapshot of Sap, O&B’s Canadian comfort food restaurant
Executive chef Ryan Lister curates a colourful menu driven by local and seasonal ingredients
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City News
Philip Preville: Ford Nation is not who you think it is
Crackgate revealed that the city’s crippling political divide isn’t between downtowners and suburbanites—it’s between the...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: a 27-year-old renter buys a Trinity Bellwoods starter home with her younger brother
The buyers: Julia Cameron, a 27-year-old importer-exporter, and her brother, Daniel, a 25-year-old music producer. The story:...
City News
Trumped: the multi-million-dollar lawsuit over Toronto’s most controversial new condo-hotel
In the city’s new five-star hotel landscape, the Ritz represents elegant European classicism, the Shangri-La cool, Asian...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Switch, the new downtown bar and rec room from Hanif Harji
Name: Switch Neighbourhood: Downtown Core Contact Info: 55 Colborne St., 416-901-9990, switchtoronto.com Owners: Hanif Harji...
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The Drake is opening a new restaurant downtown
Shortly after announcing that Ted Corrado had taken over as corporate executive chef, The Drake has revealed that it will be...
City News
Three Toronto property giants write a letter opposing a downtown casino (and embarrassing Paul Godfrey)
Only a week after three former Toronto mayors penned a letter opposing the development of a casino in Toronto, three of the...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: demand for offices, condo bidding wars and the echo boom’s influence
For the past six months, local real estate chatter revolved around Toronto’s cooling housing market. This week presented a...
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Food & Drink
Banh Mi Boys’ downtown location is opening in February
Banh Mi Boys co-owner David Chau revealed on Twitter that the Yonge Street location of the popular Asian-fusion sandwich shop is...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $3.5 million for a Yorkville suite with a wonderfully excessive decor scheme
ADDRESS: 80 Yorkville Avenue, unit 1401 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Yorkville AGENT: Janice Fox , Hazelton Real Estate Inc., Brokerage PRICE:...
City News
Adam Vaughan Vs: Paul Godfrey’s hypocritical stance on casino locations
Councillor Adam Vaughan is a staunch downtowner, a vocal casino opponent and a master of the well-timed zinger, all reasons why...
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Year in Review: international brands had a love affair with Toronto
Condo developers aren’t the only ones salivating over Toronto’s buoyant economy. A raft of international retailers set up shop...
City News
Bell stakes its claim for downtown Toronto condo owners with big-time cable discounts
A high-stakes turf war is heating up between Rogers and Bell over the chance to provide television to Toronto’s ever-growing...
Real Estate News
The Chase: a first-time buyer finds her dream downtown condo in under a week
The buyer: Natalie Pastuszak, a 28-year-old marketing associate. The story: Pastuszak was sharing a home with her mother in...
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Philip Preville: How the crumbling Gardiner became a symbol for all that ails Toronto
While city hall spent a decade debating what to do with the Gardiner—Demolish it? Bury it? Raise it?—the expressway fell into...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hawthorne Food and Drink, a new downtown restaurant with a social mission
When the bold new 60 Richmond Street East co-op building was completed in 2010, the builders left open a medium-sized space on the...
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New Sukhothai location to open on Monday
Sukhothai, the tiny Parliament Street restaurant that amassed a cult following for its homey Northern Thai cuisine, is opening a...
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Bruce Woods resigns as chef at Modus
Last year, Modus Ristorante launched at King and York, and its refined Italian cuisine quickly earned it a reputation as a Bay...
City News
Q&A: Amjad Tarsin, U of T’s new Islamic chaplain, on Gaddafi, TIFF and moving to Toronto
Amjad Tarsin, a 28-year-old law school dropout with a fondness for fantasy lit, is the new Islamic chaplain at U of T U of T’s...
City News
Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
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Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
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Bed, Bath and Beyond opens its largest store in Canada at Yonge and Gerrard
Less than a month after Marshalls opened at John and Richmond, another big American chain has launched its first downtown Toronto...
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
“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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
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