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Food & Drink
The Chase expands again with next-door fish shop Little Fin
The Chase Hospitality Group, which owns The Chase and The Chase Fish & Oyster at Yonge and Temperance streets, seems determined to...
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Real Estate News
The financial district loses another big-name company to the south core
The Globe has dug up a little more evidence that the financial district's centre of gravity is slowly shifting south. The paper...
City News
How Sherry Cooper, former chief economist of BMO Financial Group, would spend a perfect Saturday in the Financial District
“I’m a morning person. I’m usually up exercising as early as 6 a.m. at the gym at The Ritz-Carlton ( 181 Wellington...
Style
Street Style: colourful, casual and decidedly trendy office attire in the Financial District
The Financial District is loosening up. Just as stuffy power restaurants have given way to trendy, cocktail-fuelled...
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Food & Drink
A posh new coffee house opens in the Financial District
Dineen Coffee Co. is bringing a little coffee cred to the downtown core, an area otherwise dominated by Starbucks and Tim...
Food & Drink
Drake One Fifty is opening in the financial district this summer
The Drake Hotel has been dropping mysterious hints about its new standalone restaurant since early March. Now, the official word...
Food & Drink
Coming soon to the financial district: The Chase, two new restaurants with Michael Steh in the kitchen
Michael Steh, who left Reds last summer before its big revamp, is the new executive chef at a pair of new restaurants from Steven...
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Food & Drink
Review: Hawthorne, home of downtown’s buzziest new lunch deal
The service at the Financial District’s buzziest new lunch spot is as smooth as Beyoncé’s airbrushed thighs. You’d never...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Kupfert and Kim, a new takeout spot in the Path that’s both vegan and gluten-free
Kupfert and Kim is a bright new kiosk under First Canadian Place that’s been drawing long lineups of health-conscious (and...
Style
Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
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Real Estate News
The Trump Tower’s spire of light is out
Torontonians walking around the Financial District may have noticed it’s been a bit darker lately. That's because the Michael...
Real Estate News
The Chase: a first-time buyer finds her dream downtown condo in under a week
The buyer: Natalie Pastuszak, a 28-year-old marketing associate. The story: Pastuszak was sharing a home with her mother in...
Food & Drink
Bruce Woods resigns as chef at Modus
Last year, Modus Ristorante launched at King and York, and its refined Italian cuisine quickly earned it a reputation as a Bay...
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Food & Drink
Review: Richmond Station, Carl Heinrich’s new downtown farm-to-table restaurant
At his new farm-to-table restaurant, Carl Heinrich, the 27-year-old chef who won Top Chef Canada, shakes hands with celeb-struck...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the new three-course prix fixe at Richmond Station
Carl Heinrich’ s new farm-to-table restaurant Richmond Station provides a much-needed alternative to the stiff dining rooms of...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: homey Italian fare at the revamped Little Anthony’s
Earlier this year, the long-in-the-tooth downtown Italian spot Little Anthony’s underwent a three-month renovation and...
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in October
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Introducing: Reds Wine Tavern, a revamp of the Bay Street power lunch destination
It wasn’t long ago that we watched as Ryan Gallagher brought his good-natured competitive streak to season two of Top Chef...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Michael’s on Simcoe, a new downtown steakhouse from the old manager of Harbour Sixty
This TIFF season was a busy one for the intersection of Adelaide and Simcoe, with the opening of the new Shangri-La Hotel and Soho...
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Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
Real Estate News
Office tower gossip: another mega-building could be coming to the financial district
With Toronto’s commercial real estate market on a serious roll, there are whispers about another tower planned for the downtown...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Sam James Coffee Bar’s new underground outpost in the Path
Back in December, we told you about Sam James’ plans to launch a third location in that downtown warren of chain coffee...
Culture
A chat with the winner of Top Chef Canada season two
Yesterday, we got a chance to speak with the winner of season two of Top Chef Canada to find out what it’s like feeding Mark...
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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!”
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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