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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
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A popular Filipino supper club is getting a permanent home
Kusi is coming to Chinatown
Food & Drink
This Filipino supermarket chain is hosting after-hours dance parties
Who needs the club when you have Seafood City?
Food & Drink
Six of the city’s best private dining rooms for hassle-free holiday parties
Featuring a Filipino karaoke hotspot, a Bourdain-approved Vietnamese restaurant and an Aegean fantasy with skyline views
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Nuit Regular’s newest restaurant will transport diners to the Philippines
And right onto a karaoke stage
Food & Drink
Jeff and Nuit Regular are opening yet another restaurant—but this time, it isn’t Thai
Makilala is bringing Filipino food and late-night karaoke to Church and Richmond
Food & Drink
Ten of Canada’s top chefs are cooking a one-night-only multi-course Filipino feast
Including Toronto’s own Daniel Cancino, Immanuel Pascual, Marvin Palomo and Diona Joyce
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Where Vela chef Marvin Palomo eats Chinese, Japanese and Filipino food in Markham and Scarborough
His favourite spots for pan de sal, king crab ramen and hand-pulled noodles
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Kumain Kitchen, a Filipino street food pop-up from twin brother chefs
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at BB’s, Parkdale’s new weekend brunch spot for Filipino favourites
Including silog, spaghetti and tamarind-spiked caesars
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A Filipino bistro sprouts in Rosedale
It’s called Mineral, and the 7Up pork and squid-ink pancit are sensational
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Jollibee, Toronto’s first location of the Filipino fast-food chain
See what all the buzz is about
Food & Drink
People lined up for 10 hours to try Toronto’s first Jollibee restaurant
Thousands of Jollibee fans turned up for the opening of the Scarborough location
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Toronto’s newest Filipino restaurants add big-city flourishes to an already incredible cuisine
New wave Filipino at Platito, Dolly's and Lasa
Food & Drink
Where Lake Inez chef Robbie Hojilla eats Filipino and Chinese food in Scarborough
His favourite places for dim sum, noodle soup and halo-halo
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Lake Inez, a pan-Asian restaurant and craft beer bar with Robbie Hojilla in the kitchen
The Hudson Kitchen and Harbord Room chef is back at it
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What’s on the menu at Lasa, a casual Filipino follow-up to Lamesa on St. Clair West
Owner Les Sabilano and chef Daniel Cancino want to bring Filipino food to a wider audience.
City News
The Nanny Diaries: Toronto’s Filipino caregivers talk about low wages, long days and immigration delays
SINCE 1992, some 75,000 Filipinos have become permanent residents of Canada through the federal government’s caregiver...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
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Cheap Eats: 11 Toronto restaurants (and bars and food shops) where you can eat well for less
2013 is shaping up to be the Year of Cheap Eats in Toronto. Lobster prices are at record lows. Delicious Asian street food is...
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Introducing: Dyne, the Iberian-Asian restaurant that took over from Maléna
Last weekend, Richard Andino, a chef with 22 years experience in Toronto’s restaurant scene, opened Dyne in Maléna’ s old...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 20 to 26
Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 22 Thursday, August 23 Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Sunday, August...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 6 to 12
Monday, August 6 Tuesday, August 7 Wednesday, August 8 Thursday, August 9 Friday, August 10 Saturday, August 11 Sunday, August 12...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 30 to August 5
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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
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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
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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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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