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Here’s College Street’s Empire Espresso, because no one should have to walk five minutes for a decent coffee
In café-riddled Toronto, it has been curiously difficult to find good coffee on the stretch of College Street between Lit...
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Introducing: Fika, a charming new café in Kensington Market from Victor Barry and Nikki Leigh McKean
Name: FIKA Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 28 Kensington Ave., http://Fika.ca/, @Fikakensington. Owners: Nikki...
Food & Drink
Beloved Riverdale hangout Rooster Coffee House has a second location
The east-end neighbourhood café cherished for its Loïc Gourmet sandwiches, goodies from Café Jules Patisserie and Pilot Coffee...
Food & Drink
Live Market brings healthy lunches and gourmet coffee to Liberty Village
Liberty Village is now one step closer to becoming a yuppie’s dream. Live Market, a collaboration between Jennifer Italiano, who...
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City News
The List: 10 things curmudgeonly comedian Rick Mercer can’t live without
1 | My grandfather’s pipes He died in 1982, when I was 12. I can’t picture him not smoking a pipe. You can still smell the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Arrow Café, Dundas West’s newest coffee and ice cream shop
Before it was The Arrow Café, 1164 Dundas St. W. was an accountant’s office. But when childhood friends Robin Eley, Owais Rafiq...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
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Tim Hortons’ new-ish lattes now available iced (whipped cream and caramel shots optional)
For many Tim Hortons devotees, the iced capp ushers in the start of summer. But this year, that iced coffee drink is going to have...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons announces plans for global domination (also: panini)
Yesterday, Tim Hortons announced a new expansion that sounds so aggressive you may want to make sure there isn’t one popping up...
Food & Drink
With its new blonde roast, Starbucks ups the ante in its simmering coffee war with Tim Hortons
Like us, you’ve probably pondered Starbucks’ complete and total domination by asking, rhetorically, “What’ll they serve...
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City News
Where to Buy Now: St. Lawrence, because everything an urbanite needs is within a five-minute walk
Established in 1803, St. Lawrence isn’t exactly a scrappy young upstart. But what it’s done exceptionally well on the...
Food & Drink
Sam James to open up shop in the Path
In this season of giving, it’s only fitting that Toronto’s favourite coffee son, Sam James, would announce he’s taking pity...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: an espresso maker for people who don’t drink coffee by the pod
Forget those multicoloured pod-based insta-macchiatos. This machine is for purists who like their coffee ground, tamped and...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 30 fantastic presents for homebodies everywhere
For friends and family just moving into a new place or on the lookout for their next apartment, it’s nice to pick out gifts that...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 fantastic finds for the at-home butcher, baker and boozer
Everyone needs to eat, but some people have more refined palates than others. For the wine snobs and fine diners in your...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 11 top-tier treats for over $500
The big-ticket items are what we’re all hoping to get for the holidays, and sometimes we’re special enough to be the recipient...
Food & Drink
Taste testing the new Tim Hortons espresso drinks with Bulldog Coffee’s Stuart Ross
Monday marked the arrival of the new line of Tim Hortons “premium espresso”–based drinks we told you about a couple weeks...
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Tim Hortons to bring espresso to the 99 per cent
Tim Hortons, that Canadian bastion of par-baked doughnuts and extreme folksiness , announced yesterday that it will soon be making...
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City News
Dalton McGuinty’s hands finally give the provincial election campaign the excitement we’ve been waiting for
Dalton McGuinty’ s erratic movements and hand gestures at last night’s provincial election debate should provide good...
Food & Drink
Sam James to celebrate his coffee bar’s second anniversary this Sunday with free lattes for all
Toronto espresso hero Sam James is celebrating his tiny Harbord Street coffee bar's second anniversary this Sunday, when he’ll...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Six of Toronto’s tastiest treats and where to get them
Whoopie pie Wings Ice cream Fries Marshmallows Cask-conditioned ale Bobbette and Belle 1121 Queen St. E., 416-466-8800 For any kid...
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Introducing: Locomotive, a new café and sandwich shop in the Junction
Childhood friends Vito Carnovale and Paul Araujo have been conspiring to open their take on the perfect café for the past...
Real Estate News
Union Station makeover hailed as unprecedented, amazing and complex—or, simply, a “big dig”
One of the main reasons we like Porter Air and the Toronto Island Airport —aside from, of course, its proximity to downtown—is...
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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
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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
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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