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Drink the Oscars: just the right drink for each of the best picture nominees
As a companion to our 2012 Academy Awards drinking game, which tells you when to take a swig, we here at the Dish thought we’d...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Cube, Charles Khabouth’s newest incarnation of Ultra Supper Club
After nine years, Ultra Supper Club, the restaurant-cum-club that replaced Queen West’s long-time tropical standby Bamboo, has...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Chilean red with heritage
Cousiño-Macul 2009 Antiguas Reservas Cabernet Sauvignon"...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Church Aperitivo Bar, an Italian kitchen and bar in a (former) Queen West church
It’s been nearly a year since we first noticed the permit signs on the long-abandoned Slavic church at the corner of Queen and...
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Best Bars: The place to go for a wine-drenched girls’ night out on Queen East
Swirl Wine Bar 946 1/2 Queen St. E., 647-351-5453 It’s fitting that the name of Queen East’s best wine bar rhymes with...
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Best Bars: Beer geeks, welcome to your town hall
Bar Volo 587 Yonge St., 416-928-0008 Father-and-son team Ralph and Tomas Morana run their 23-year-old Yonge Street bar with the...
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Tired of the Beer Store’s conveyor belt? Queen’s Park is reexamining its liquor laws (but don’t get your hopes up yet)
When stringent regulations (almost) prevent a small brewery from working with a charity for homeless kids, well maybe it’s a...
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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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Best Bars: Toronto’s top seven spots to commune over a pint of beer (or three)
CHECK OUT ALL SEVEN PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST PLACE TO WATCH THE LEAFS GO DOWN | BEST LOCAVORE TAP ROOM| BEST PUB FOR BEER GEEKS |...
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Best Bars: Two meticulously calibrated elixirs at Brassaii and Barchef (some assembly required)
Brassaii’s Campfire Coffee 461 King St. W., 416-598-4730 Booze slinger Jordan Stacey turns the common specialty coffee into a...
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Best Bars: Three top Toronto trivia nights
The Drake Hotel 1150 Queen St. W., 416-531-5042 Quizmaster Terrance Balazo has turned trivia into a bona fide profession. He hosts...
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Best Bars: A look at three of Toronto’s world-class wine cellars
Opus 37 Prince Arthur Ave., 416-921-3105 The staggering 52,000-bottle cellar at Opus, assembled over nearly two decades by...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top six places to cozy up with a glass of wine
CHECK OUT OUR SIX FAVOURITES » JUMP TO: BEST ANTI-LCBO LIST | BEST IBERIAN TAPAS AND WINE | MOST INTRIGUING WINES BY THE GLASS |...
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Best Bars: Three trendy alternatives to merlot, pinot grigio and chardonnay
Order the same bottle every time? Sheila Flaherty, the 25-year-old wine director at Mercatto who has won the Italian mini-chain...
Food & Drink
Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
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The City’s Best Bars: The ultimate handbook for Toronto’s discerning drinkers
Drinking in Toronto has become a dignified pursuit. Over the past year, we visited the city’s newest and greatest bars, and we...
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Introducing: Lucid, Moses McIntee’s molecularly inclined cocktail bar and restaurant on Queen West
Sure, it might seem a tad inauspicious being the following act to the absurdly short-lived Bohemiam Gastropub and its similarly...
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U.S. native tribe accuses big beer companies of bootlegging
Either a town of 11 people is drinking 13,000 cans of beer a day, or brewers are looking the other way as their product is...
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POLL: How much should you tip for fancy, pricy cocktails?
Over at the advice section of the New York Times Dining Journal, Florence Fabricant writes: Of course, even if bartenders are...
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Introducing: Gusto 101, a new King West Italian joint that’s got wine on tap (from the basement winery)
Gusto 101, the latest shiny new thing to appear in the perpetually-in-construction King West neighbourhood, opened its doors last...
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Queen West’s Brooklynn is all boarded up—because it’s expanding
Dish readers gazing out the windows of their westbound 501 streetcar might have noticed the recent boards covering the entrance to...
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Demand for fancy cocktail ice spurs Chilean man to steal five tonnes’ worth—from a glacier
Seizing on a new and unique way to sucker people into paying exorbitant prices for water-based products, a man in Chile chipped...
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Introducing: DonDon Izakaya, downtown’s new spot for authentic Japanese bar food
When we first told you about DonDon Izakaya last summer, it was slated for an October opening, but as such things go, it wasn’t...
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Toronto man (allegedly) gets rich selling booze to fake diplomats
If recent reports are to be believed, the glamorous, booze-soaked life of an official diplomat can only be outshone by the...
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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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