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City News
Editor’s Letter (April 2012): The App of My Eye
The last couple of years have been fantastic for Toronto diners. The city has experienced an explosion of hole-in-the-wall...
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City News
Where to Buy Now: Brockton Village, because Lansdowne’s shedding its grungy skin—without becoming generic
Like Wallace-Emerson next door, Brockton Village is quickly becoming a destination for both urban tastemakers and young families...
City News
Rob Ford distracts masses from real issues by making more bad life choices
Yesterday, news broke that police chief Bill Blair could be risking his career—oh, never mind. Rob Ford ’ s been caught using...
Food & Drink
Introducing: L’Ouvrier, the newest addition to Dundas West’s restaurant row
Back in August we told you about L’Ouvrier, the new restaurant and bar on Dundas West, which takes its inspiration from a line...
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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: The city’s most interesting dishes, places to eat them and, yes, hot sauce
Baguette Pasta Fad Hot Sauce Lobster reinvented Carnivore cure Roast chicken Devilled eggs Patio for dessert Woodlot 293...
Shopping
Best of the City 2011: Our picks for the coolest home decor and other goods
Patio chair Camera Axe Reclaimed wood furniture Vintage Curios Fresh-cut flowers Guilt-free makeup Soil for a veggie garden Kids'...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Lakeview Storehouse, Dundas West’s new corner store and communal pantry
Back in November 2010, we told you that the owners of the Lakeview Restaurant were planning on going retail in early December with...
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Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
Food & Drink
The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Primal Grind, a sugar- and dairy-free café in a crossfit gym (no, really)
Toronto’s independent coffee scene has boomed in the past year. With that rapid growth has come new levels of coffee...
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Shopping
Introducing: Lost and Found, the Dundas West boutique carrying Charlotte Ronson and (soon) Uniqlo
UPDATE: Lost and Found has now moved to 44 Ossington Avenue. The place: Lost and Found , a new clothing boutique and espresso...
Style
Q&A with Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson: the design duo talk about their new show, Made at Home
Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson ’s annual show Radiant Dark has always been one of our can’t-miss exhibits of design...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s five best cafés
The city’s top spots for lingering over a latte and laptop 1. Rooster coffee house This out-of-the-way spot overlooking...
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City News
Cars likely to win yet another battle as Adam Giambrone’s parking legacy on Dundas West comes almost completely undone
One of the last things Adam Giambrone did before events transpired to take him out of the race for mayor was remove parking spaces...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $960,000 for this Little Portugal reno
ADDRESS: 7 Marshall St. NEIGHBOURHOOD: Little Portugal AGENT: Aniceto Gomes , Remax West Realty Inc. PRICE: $959,000 THE PLACE:...
Food & Drink
Lakeview Restaurant is going retail with a new Dundas West store
For Fadi Hakim , co-owner of the Lakeview Restaurant at Dundas and Ossington, having a joint retail space and eatery is a...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review O&B Canteen and Brockton General
Brockton General 1321 Dundas St. W., 647-342-6104 The usual rules of running a restaurant don’t apply at this tiny former sports...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Churchill, the latest lo-fi bar on “destination” Dundas West
Remember West Queen West before it was a zoo? The folks at Churchill, Little Portugal’s newest bar, sure do. The owners of the...
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Food & Drink
Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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
Big Stories
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
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
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
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
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling