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Review: Ramen Raijin, a downtown noodle shop specializing in milky pork-bone ramen
Toronto’s noodle revolution continues with Raijin, a Vancouver transplant specializing in tonkotsu ramen. Instead of combining...
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Food & Drink
Critic: JaBistro—Guu for grown-ups—brings prestige sushi to clubland
The team behind Toronto’s cultishly popular Guu restaurants cranks up the luxe factor at JaBistro It’s a Tuesday night in...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bazara, Ossington’s new spot for sushi
Name: Bazara Asian Cuisine Neighbourhood: Ossington strip Contact info: 188 Ossington Ave., 647-748-0288, bazara.ca Owners: Sammy...
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Introducing: Zakkushi, the first Toronto location of the Vancouver chain of yakitori bars
Name: Zakkushi Neighbourhood: Cabbagetown Contact info: 193 Carlton St., 647-352-9455, zakkushi.com, @ZakkushiCarlton Owner:...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ryoji Ramen and Izakaya, the Little Italy outpost of the Okinawa-based chain
Little Italy’s Ryoji combines two of the city’s hottest food trends: ramen and izakayas. The popular Japanese chain, founded...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the demi katsu sandwich at JaBistro
JaBistro, the youngest member of the Guu family in Toronto, launched its lunch service last week. And while the considerable buzz...
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Ryoji, Toronto’s newest ramen shop and izakaya, is set to open this month
The mania for non-sushi Japanese food that dominated the restaurant scene last year is continuing into 2013: Ramen and Izakaya...
Food & Drink
The Month that Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in December
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2012’s biggest food trends, from the shadow return of fusion to the reign of ramen
Taste moves in waves: one year tall food is on every menu in town, and the next year, it’s a half-forgotten...
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Introducing: Kingyo Toronto, the Cabbagetown outpost of Vancouver’s celebrated izakaya
Kingyo is the latest Japanese restaurant to make the move from Vancouver to Toronto, following the success of Guu, Guu...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ramen Raijin, the new Toronto outpost of a Vancouver ramen pioneer
In the city’s ongoing ramen revolution, the two most recent players are both long-standing Vancouver favourites: Santouka, which...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Santouka Ramen, the new Dundas Street outpost of the Japanese noodle chain
It’s hard to say when Toronto’s ramen wars began, but they’re clearly now raging in earnest. Opening on the heels of David...
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Food & Drink
Sang Kim is opening a pair of new restaurants on Baldwin: Yakitori Bar and Seoul Food
Close watchers of Baldwin Village have no doubt noticed the butcher paper in the windows at 1 Baldwin Street. Coming soon to the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: JaBistro, a foray into sushi from the owner of Guu
Fresh off the launch of Kinton Ramen in May, James HyunSoo Kim, who also brought Vancouver’s popular Guu chain to Toronto, has...
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.
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Hot Noodle Alert: Yours Truly owners are opening a new Queen West ramen shop this winter
Ramen is rapidly becoming one of the city’s hottest food trends, alongside the likes of cupcakes, bacon and tacos. Over the last...
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a rich and warming bowl of ramen at downtown’s Sansotei
This year marked the invasion of the alkaline noodles: Ramen restaurants have been popping up around downtown Toronto, and with...
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The Thing: a Japanese ice-maker that ensures your next drink will have some serious balls
In ice, as in everything, there is an ideal form. Contrary to what cheap plastic ice trays and automated ice machines would have...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in September
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hapa Izakaya, the Little Italy outpost of Vancouver’s popular Japanese pub
Toronto’s gone gaga over all things boisterous and Japanese of late, so it’s no surprise that news of the impending arrival of...
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Introducing: House of Moments, a new art gallery and fusion restaurant in Leslieville
In May 2011, when businessman Hamid Kouchak took over a massive, 12,000-square-foot space on Carlaw Avenue—formerly Dragon Heir...
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Best of the City 2012: four of Toronto’s top takes on Asian street food
Yours Truly 229 Ossington Ave., 416-533-2243 Inari Traditional Japanese inari pouches are dead simple: thin fried tofu wrapped...
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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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