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Food & Drink
Super fizzy and ice cold, highballs are an exercise in simplicity
Featuring spirit ideas and bar recommendations for the city’s most understated sippers
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Food & Drink
The city’s latest cocktail trend is savoury, salty and sometimes even soupy
Featuring Project Gigglewater's pho-inspired cocktail along with other umami sips and home-bar essentials
TL Insider
What went down at TL Insider’s whisky and food pairing at Stock T.C
The unique tasting menu was inspired by The Glenlivet 14-Year-Old
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Five reasons to celebrate and pop that bubbly now
The anticipation of popping a cork, feeling the prickly bubbles on your tongue, and making the toast: To your friends, to your...
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Food & Drink
Q&A: The co-founders of Grape Witches on the power of natural wine
Including details on what they’ll be bringing to TL Insider as this month’s sommeliers-in-residence
Food & Drink
12 of Toronto’s most sought-after soda pops
We're living in a true carbonated beverage connoisseur's paradise
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Weird and Wonderful: Natural wines, the funky punk-rock stars of the wine world, are coming into vogue
Purists will love the idea of natural wines. They’re made from grapes that are grown using organic practices, for starters, but...
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Bittersweet Symphony: vermouth, the light, refreshing, versatile aperitif, is back
For years, Toronto bar lists have favoured ballsy amber liquors (bourbons, ryes and the like) for building powerhouse...
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A tour of The Addisons, the new King West bar that looks and feels like someone’s parents’ house
Going for drinks at The Addisons , a new bar in the Entertainment District, is meant to feel like crashing a house party. Interior...
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Day Tripper: swap your stroll in the LCBO’s aisles for an outing to Prince Edward County
This month I’ll be driving two hours east of Toronto and filling my trunk with racy, elegant pinots, chardonnays and sparklers...
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Shopping
The Find: everything you need for the perfect bar cart
Ever since Mad Men made the martini cool again, home-owners and apartment dwellers alike have been obsessing over a single piece...
Food & Drink
A breakdown of BarChef’s Abstract Ice, a cocktail you eat with a spoon
Since 2009, Frankie Solarik of Queen West's BarChef has been rattling the cocktail scene with hyper-modernist elixirs, like the...
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Five refreshingly boozy cold-brew cocktails
Across the city, Toronto baristas are pouring thirst-quenching cold brew, the hyper-trendy coffee drink that's steeped for up to...
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Bespoke Bottles: intriguing and less expensive Niagara wines that can only be found in Toronto restaurants
Here’s a secret: many of Niagara’s top producers have a range of what they call licensee wines, which are made specifically to...
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Tropical tiki bar Miss Thing’s moves into Parkdale
Looks like the Bovine Sex Club doesn't have Queen West's tiki bar scene all to itself anymore: Miss Thing's , a Pan Asian...
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Fifteen of the city’s most insane caesars
Every good Canadian worth his or her celery salt knows that the sodium-packed caesar is our national cocktail, and this year the...
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Kiwi Coolers: six bottles from New Zealand best sipped on summer nights
New Zealand’s moderate maritime climate produces refreshing wines made for summer sipping New Zealand has more than 700 wineries...
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Patio Guide 2015: this summer’s best new outdoor seats
After months of hibernating and sweater-wearing, Vitamin D–starved Torontonians can finally take to the streets (and...
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Cold Ones: five of our favourite Ontario craft beers for the summer
There have never been more ways to enjoy Ontario craft beer, in every corner of the city. Here are our favourites TROPIC THUNDER...
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Noble Hop turns beer lovers into brewmasters
Last year, Dave Crum, a chatty 29-year-old, quit his job in finance and opened a bespoke shop for home brewers. He sells the...
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Spring Fling: six bargain bottles of lesser-known whites
Now’s the time to experiment with fragrant, refreshing, lesser-known whites As the weather starts to warm I turn to...
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A year-round lawn games bar is coming to College West
Good news for those of you who think the 60-plus crowd gets all the best sports: you no longer have to wait until your golden...
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Northern Belle, Northwood’s new sister spot, is now slinging drinks in Trinity Bellwoods
The Christie Pits café and cocktail bar Northwood has opened a second location on Dundas West. With its pour-over coffees and...
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Serious Crush: 10 spots that deliver exciting wines and never-snooty service
The definition of a Toronto wine bar has morphed dramatically over the past few years. Classic wine-only bars are increasingly...
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For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
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For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.
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For Sale: 1445 Islington Avenue
Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley
Best New Restaurants
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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Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
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considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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
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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