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Toronto’s best tacos right now
Our favourites, from super-classic to ultra-trendy
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Eleven breakfast sandwiches you need to eat right now
Including one that's actually a burrito
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What’s on the menu at Tacos Rico, the new plant-based taco joint from the Grand Electric team
Including mescal cocktails and low-intervention wine
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Toronto’s best Mexican restaurants
Our go-tos for tacos, tortas and tequila
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25 of Toronto’s best bars and restaurants for late-night eats
Where you can eat great when it's really, really, really late
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What’s on the menu at White Lily Diner, a brunch-and-dinner spot with a Grand Electric chef
Because you can never have enough brunch
Style
The best new places to eat, drink, shop and relax in Muskoka
Cottage country has never been so cosmopolitan
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Real Weddings 2016: Inside a laid-back, DIY everything Brickworks bash
A DIY extravaganza that was pulled off without a planner
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Consumed: What Franco Stalteri, the founder of Charlie’s Burgers, ate last week
"I've had trouble with fernet ever since Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver came to Toronto for back-to-back CB dinners"
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Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
There are plenty of great places to eat on the east side—it just hasn’t exploded the way the west has over the last five years. How come?
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The Grand Electric group is launching a music podcast
It's no surprise that dedicated restaurant owners care about music—Bieber blaring through the speakers could cause burger sales...
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Pop-Up Pick: get crazy-soft cashmere at Kit and Ace’s Muskoka shop (and then celebrate with tacos)
Lucky Torontonians who get to spend their summers in Muskoka have something else to be thankful for: the shopping scene up north...
City News
Best of the City 2014: Fun
Wild Ride Rock ’n’ Horse Saloon 250 Adelaide St. W., 647-344-1234 A night at Rock ’n’ Horse Saloon feels like a scene from...
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Grand Electric is taking reservations for private pig roasts
Garden parties generally bring to mind wide-brimmed church hats, Pimms cups and frock coats (also: gardens). In...
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Cinqo Drinkos: five inspired Toronto takes on the classic Mexican margarita
There are few things more quintessentially Mexican—or more dangerously refreshing—than the margarita, a time-honoured mix of...
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Grand Electric takes cottage country with a new Muskoka spin-off
Here’s yet another reason for Muskoka cottagers to feel blessed and superior: Grand Electric, the hip-but-grungy taco shop in...
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Chef’s Choice: Grant van Gameren of Bar Isabel picks his favourite restaurants
Who better to guide a fantasy food tour than a chef? We asked some of the city's top culinary talents to walk us through their...
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Straight Outta Parkdale: the mystifying hip-hoppification of Toronto chef culture
In 2011, we walked into a dinky taco shop in Parkdale and found the future of Toronto dining: blaring ’90s hip-hop, beautifully...
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Parkdale taqueria Grand Electric is now doing takeout
Grand Electric fans can scarf their pork tinga tacos and squid hoagies without enduring the hours-long waits and blaring ‘90s...
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Critic: How tequila-fuelled taquerias like Playa Cabana became the city’s buzziest places to eat—and party
Playa Cabana is on the ground floor of a slim Dupont semi just off Davenport, a convenient pit stop after a wardrobe binge in...
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Introducing: Electric Mud BBQ, the raucous new barbecue joint from the owners of Grand Electric
Name: Electric Mud BBQ Neighbourhood: Parkdale Contact info: 5 Brock Ave., 416-516-8286, @ElectricMudBBQ Owners: Colin Tooke and...
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The Dish Power Rankings: muddied waters edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. After four...
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The Grand Electric team opens Electric Mud BBQ around the corner from their taco joint
The pair behind Grand Electric pulled a fast one last weekend, quietly opening Electric Mud BBQ on Saturday with barely a lick of...
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The Dish Power Rankings: buzzing diners and taco insurgents
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
Deep Dives
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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Almost
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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“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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business