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“Giving back was already part of our business culture”: How five Toronto restaurateurs joined forces to feed the front lines
Food & Drink

“Giving back was already part of our business culture”: How five Toronto restaurateurs joined forces to feed the front lines

The Marinara Boys have provided more than 3,200 meals to front-line workers and those in need

“I’m contemplating taking a second mortgage out on my home”: How restaurateurs are dealing with the pivot to takeout and delivery
Food & Drink

“I’m contemplating taking a second mortgage out on my home”: How restaurateurs are dealing with the pivot to takeout and delivery

We spoke with some bar and restaurant owners to see how they’re coping.

Toronto’s best Italian restaurants

Toronto’s best Italian restaurants

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Toronto Life's favourite places to carbo-load

The 100 best restaurants in Toronto

The 100 best restaurants in Toronto

After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now

10 new bars and restaurants to check out this spring

10 new bars and restaurants to check out this spring

Where to eat tuna pizza, pastrami sandwiches and Italian small plates, right now

Toronto’s secret pasta speakeasy is now officially open for business
Food & Drink

Toronto’s secret pasta speakeasy is now officially open for business

Famiglia Baldassarre’s members-only lunch counter is one of Toronto's best little food secrets

Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh

Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh

Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce

Big Stories

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid
Memoir

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid

The miserable truth about online school
City

The miserable truth about online school

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”
City

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef
Memoir

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever
Memoir

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH
Memoir

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”
Life

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top 10 longreads of 2020
Deep Dives

Toronto Life’s top 10 longreads of 2020

They survived Covid, but they&#8217;re not okay
Life

They survived Covid, but they’re not okay

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice
City

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice

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