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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Pizzeria Badiali’s new Mirvish Village location
Including a whole new style of pie and Aperol spritzes on tap
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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
Food & Drink
Tutto Panino’s former sandwich chef is cooking up something new
Buon Riso is the new project from Kaitlyn Lasagna
Food & Drink
Matty Matheson’s Italian restaurant is rolling into Toronto next month
Rizzo’s House of Parm will be available for pickup and delivery
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Food & Drink
A team of Toronto chefs is opening an Italian-inspired steakhouse in Prince Edward County
Get ready for top-notch veal parm, Picton
Food & Drink
Toronto is getting a hidden restaurant with a pasta-heavy tasting menu
Pasta Privato is opening inside Notte Ristorante
Food & Drink
Is this new restaurant Niagara’s hottest reservation?
Revé, which opened last fall, is attracting attention from local and visiting foodies
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Food & Drink
This new kitchen on Queen West is remixing Italian favourites with Asian flavours
Liliana is from former Vela chef Marvin Palomo
Food & Drink
This new Italian restaurant replaced a long-standing Little Italy staple
Osteria Alba is from Adam Pereira, the chef and owner of Cano
Food & Drink
La Cubana has been replaced with a New York–style Italian restaurant
Proper is bringing red sauce to Roncesvalles
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Food & Drink
There’s a new boutique hotel in the Annex with a Japanese Italian restaurant
Nomas opens March 1
Food & Drink
The Incredible Edible Bucket List: 365 must-try Toronto dishes
Our dish-a-day guide to eating spectacularly well in 2026
Food & Drink
This is what’s opening in the old La Cubana space on Roncesvalles
Out with Cuban, in with Italian American
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Food & Drink
This new Italian spot specializes in choose-your-own-adventure pasta
Spaghetti Western brings panini and mix-and-match pasta to the Upper Beaches
Food & Drink
A popular Italian bakery is making panettone with mortadella
Out with candied fruit, in with meat and cheese
Food & Drink
A popular east-end café is becoming a pizzeria
Is it a sign of the times or does Toronto just love pizza?
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Food & Drink
This Italian restaurant is letting guests decide how much they want to pay for dinner
Fine print: for one night only
Food & Drink
An influx of Italian sandwiches is bringing la dolce vita to Toronto
Six of the city’s best panini, crescione and schiacciata masterpieces
Food & Drink
A Financial District kitchen is getting a second life as an Italian bar and restaurant
The Lost Land is now Bar Filo
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Food & Drink
Toronto can’t get enough of Italian fusion
Five new restaurants that incorporate French, Cantonese or Japanese flavours into their Italian food
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Two of Toronto’s top chefs are starring in a new series about Italian food
Cooking Italy
follows Rob Rossi and Craig Harding as they cook their way across the country
Food & Drink
A popular Italian restaurant is expanding with an 8,000-square-foot outpost
Oretta’s new Front Street location will be its biggest yet
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Food & Drink
A former Vela chef is opening an Italian restaurant on Queen West
Set to open this fall, Liliana will pair Italian foundations with Asian influences
Food & Drink
Ten Italian restaurants in Toronto with the best aperitivo hours
Where to live the dolce vita without leaving the city
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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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