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European Quality Meats closing its outlet store
The butcher, which has been in business for over 50 years, closed its Kensington Market location (now Sanagan's) in 2012, forcing...
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Cumbrae’s fancy meat shop is finally opening on West Queen West
For months now, the imposing cow to the left has been lording over the area surrounding 714 Queen West, on the block between...
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Nadège is opening a new patisserie in the PATH
Pastry chef Nadège Nourian' s modern French bakery already has storefronts on Rosedale's retail row and West Queen West, so the...
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Grab juice, lunch or a jolt of caffeine at this cute new café in Christie Pits
With smoothies trending in Yorkville, Leslieville and Liberty Village, it's no surprise that Christie Pits now has a dedicated...
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This Junction shop makes Calabrese sausage sandwiches from a 100-year-old recipe
Over in the Junction, Sorella Toronto is saluting the neighbourhood’s meatpacking history with its authentic Italian...
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Look out, Nadège: there’s a new macaron shop on Queen West
Rows of pretty pastel macarons line the display case at Butter Avenue, the new Queen West outpost of the popular uptown...
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This is what a $900 cupcake looks like
The five-star cakelet was created by Le Dolci bakery on Dundas West— yes, that Le Dolci bakery —for the world's most generous...
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Bakerbots co-owner opens a new bakeshop and ice-cream parlour on Bloor West
As a kid, Christopher Stopa used to bake gooey butter tarts with his mom to sell door-to-door for Scout fundraisers. The...
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This new Danforth bakery sells gluten-free bread, doughnuts and brunch
Since early July, Spanish-born baker Tia Vazquez has quietly been selling gluten- and dairy-free goods at Tia’s Bakery, a new...
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My Market Bakery in Kensington is kaput
The little bread-and-pastry shop at 184 Baldwin Street sold its final loaves on August 2, after 17 years in operation. It's the...
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Jellyfish gelato is available now on Queen West
Sweet Olenka, the Etobicoke chocolate shop turned Queen West pop-up, has broken away from the pack in Toronto's race to to find...
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Another longtime Kensington butcher bites the dust
Anyone strolling through Kensington Market recently may have noticed a conspicuous lack of goat heads and sheep carcasses hanging...
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Pop-Up Pick: a quaint fruit stand wedged between condos on King West
The vacant lot at 369 King West, across from Mountain Equipment Co-op, will eventually become yet another downtown condo. Before...
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Stock in Trade brings handmade sausages and fried-tofu sandwiches to the Danforth
Take a stroll through Greenwood Village and you might just spot a pig being butchered in the window of Stock in Trade, Toronto's...
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This new food shop on Queen West is a haven for allergy sufferers
Sensitive-stomach owners, take note: there's a new store on Queen West that specializes in stuff that's unlikely to send you to...
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Toronto chocolatier Laura Slack opens shop in the Distillery District
Toronto chocolatier Laura Slack is known for her beautiful but unconventional creations (her most famous treat is a burnished...
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Pop-Up Pick: this temporary Queen West parlour sells ramen-flavoured ice cream
Ice-cream seekers in the Ossington area have a difficult, albeit delightful, choice to make: grab a scoop at Bang Bang, the new...
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This new bakeshop on St. Clair West serves 40 different types of scones
If you haven’t ventured north of Bloor in a while, take note: St. Clair West has arrived . In the last year or so, the strip...
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More details emerge about Mark McEwan’s new downtown food shop
In February, we reported that local celebrichef Mark McEwan was opening a downtown version of McEwan’s, his swanky Don Mills...
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Riverdale residents say goodbye to Ruby Eats, Lynn Crawford’s gourmet grocery store
Ruby Eats, the gourmet grocery store from celebri-chef Lynn Crawford, is soon to close. For many, the Riverside shop was an easy...
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Patachou is closing its pair of Toronto patisseries
For 35 years, Toronto patisserie and café Patachou has been sustaining Rosedalers (and, more recently, St. Clair West residents)...
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Yorkville’s beloved Cookbook Store is closing after 31 years in business
Toronto food enthusiasts are losing one of their best hangouts. After a 31-year run at 850 Yonge Street, The Cookbook Store is...
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Mark McEwan heads downtown with a new location of his eponymous gourmet grocery store
Mark McEwan is a busy guy. He’s got four bustling restaurants, a high-end catering business, a thriving reality-TV judging...
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Toronto’s five most authentic shops for Old World Italian cheese, deli meats and preserves
1. Alimento Even on design-driven King West, Alimento stands out for its polish—the converted warehouse is Sophia Loren...
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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
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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