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Five Toronto restaurants bringing back the power lunch
Lingering midday menus have returned, including a five-course feast with wine pairings and a choose-your-own Spanish adventure
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What’s on the menu at the Lost Land, a new farm-to-table restaurant in the Financial District
Including an over-the-top cocktail served in a smoking treasure chest
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What’s on the menu at Estiatorio Milos, a gargantuan new Greek restaurant in the Financial District
Including the freshest of fishes and a whole lot of olive oil
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What’s on the menu at Biff’s Bistro, the second coming of O&B’s long-running French restaurant
Including some returning favourites and recipes resurrected from Biff’s beginnings
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What’s on the menu at Sing Sing, the Financial District’s new spot for pizza, pho and beer
Including burgers, banh mi, and pizza topped with brisket and kimchi
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What’s on the menu at Edna and Vita, a splashy new Italian restaurant in the old Reds Wine Tavern space
Including made-to-order lasagna and an Italian take on nachos
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What’s on the menu at Frenchy, Hilton Toronto’s new lobby bar and brasserie
It’s the centrepiece of the hotel’s full-scale renovation
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What’s on the menu at Mossop’s Social House, Hotel Victoria’s Levantine-inspired restaurant, cocktail bar and café
Tomer Markovitz of Romi’s Bakery was the consulting chef
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What’s on the menu at The Joneses, O&B’s new restaurant dedicated to retro Americana
Including shrimp cocktail, Detroit-style pizza and ice cream sundaes
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What’s on the menu at Sushi Yugen, a new restaurant in the Financial District with two omakase menus
“It’s a sanctuary where people can disconnect from urban life"
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What’s on the menu at Chaiyo, a fast-casual Thai counter from chef Nuit Regular
It’s inside CIBC Square’s fancy new fourth-floor food hall
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What’s on the menu at Lucie, the Financial District’s new spot for fancy French food
It’s the kind of place that has a champagne cart
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What’s on the menu at Daphne, a massive mid-century-inspired modern American restaurant with a 2,000-square-foot patio
Including savoury churros and a caviar-topped baked potato
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What’s on the menu at Alobar’s new Financial District location
Including a bonkers twice-baked potato
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“The clientele was decidedly unbankerly”: A night out at the new stock market–themed bar on Bay Street
Drink prices rise and fall throughout the evening, like stocks on the trading floor
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What’s on the menu at Laylak, a fancy new Lebanese restaurant in the Financial District
Including both pretty-in-pink and pitch-black cocktails
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What’s on the menu at Black and Blue, a two-storey, 9,000-square-foot steakhouse in the old Toronto Stock Exchange space
Including seafood towers, smoking cocktails and ultra-rare Miyazaki Wagyu
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All of Pret a Manger’s sandwiches and wraps, ranked
We tried everything on the menu at the UK chain's new Financial District outpost
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“I hated every moment of working at home”: Workers have returned to the Financial District with mixed feelings
Do Torontonians actually enjoy being back in the office? The answers are complicated
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What’s on the menu at the Library Bar, the Royal York’s newly renovated cocktail lounge
Including the legendary Birdbath Martini, and more
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What’s on the menu at The Rabbit Hole, O&B’s new Financial District gastropub with a multi-level patio
Including classic British snacks and all kinds of cocktails
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What’s on the menu at Hy’s Steakhouse and Cocktail Bar, the new 18,000-square-foot flagship in the Financial District
Aged cuts of meat, table-side caesar salad, fancy whiskey and more
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What’s on the menu at Supernova Ballroom, the Financial District’s stunning new cocktail bar with an anti-waste attitude
Just look at that room
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Inside Tim Hortons’ new downtown headquarters
With 21 coffee stations, a massive testing kitchen and digital trash cans
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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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
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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?
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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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