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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 6: horsing around
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada might have featured superstar New York chef Daniel Boulud , but the viewing audience...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 5: 11 little piggies
Last night on Top Chef Canada , the competition moved into its second phase: some obvious underperformers have been eliminated, a...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: ethnic stuff white people like
First off, a confession: focusing on Top Chef Canada last night, as the ground-shaking results from the election poured in, was a...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: Aykroyd’s verboten vodka
Was it just us, or was the level of cooking on last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada miles ahead of the safe, bland fare from...
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Culture
Grace restaurant, home kitchen of Dustin Gallagher, to host Top Chef Canada viewing parties. Is this a sign?
In case you hadn’t noticed, Top Chef Canada premieres tonight on Food Network Canada. If you don’t have your viewing plans all...
Culture
We chat with Top Chef Canada contestants at Thursday’s mock quick-fire
Thursday afternoon, Top Chef Canada head judge Mark McEwan , alongside host Thea Andrews , held a mock quick-fire challenge at the...
Food & Drink
Top Chef Canada contestants announced; we round up the six Torontonians who made the cut
We’re already on the record as counting down the days until the April 11 debut of Top Chef Canada (it’s 42, in case you were...
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Food & Drink
Flavour of the Month: eight core-warming winter cocktails
The city’s best bar hands are dreaming up boozy cocktails to take the edge off our mid-February malaise Hot Buttered Rum The...
Food & Drink
Introducing: 416 Snack Bar, Queen West’s newest spot for cosmopolitan late-night grub
With the recent arrival of such hot spots as The Hideout , Tattoo Rock Parlour and Barchef , the Queen and Bathurst area has seen...
Food & Drink
Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Winterlicious rebels
Few subjects are as divisive among Toronto diners and industry people as the merits of Summer- and Winterlicious. While the...
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Food & Drink
Flavour of the month: 13 ways that local chefs are cooking with corn
We love what Toronto chefs are doing with corn this season. The sweet summer staple is showing up on menus not just boiled and...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: LAB, another jolt of life for College Street
Rumours of College Street’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Just when it seemed like the west-end strip was hopelessly...
Food & Drink
Backlash menus: some Toronto restaurants go rogue during Winterlicious by serving up their own prix fixe
Summer- and Winterlicious are divisive topics among those in the restaurant biz: some enjoy the increased business, while others...
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Food & Drink
The meat-free Yorkshire pudding, Toronto’s gut-warming cocktails, Bonnie Stern’s favourite apps
• Going meatless at certain times of the year, like Christmas, might mean passing on foods like Yorkshire pudding cooked in beef...
Food & Drink
The sandwich generation: how the recession helped the lowly lunch box staple conquer Toronto
As people downsized discretionary spending (and foie gras consumption), the city’s chefs embraced their new bread and...
Food & Drink
Grace starts monthly wine program at “pour man’s prices”
As corkage fees drop like flies across the city, Grace Upstairs is hosting a monthly wine event starting on September 23 at which...
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Culture
Five reasons we’re thrilled Oprah is coming to TIFF
Yesterday, we reported that Oprah Winfrey has confirmed her attendance at TIFF—she’ll be here in support of the world premiere...
Food & Drink
Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
Food & Drink
Stalk market: Rhubarb is finally in season—here are five ways to experience it
Spring’s first two gastronomic stars (fiddleheads and ramps) are already out of style and season, which means that punch-packing...
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
Just Listed
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For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade
This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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