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Here’s what the Drake Hotel looked like before it became a Queen West destination
Food & Drink

Here’s what the Drake Hotel looked like before it became a Queen West destination

The hospitality and nightlife complex turns 15 this year, but the building's history is much older

The Influentials 2017: The top 50
City

The Influentials 2017: The top 50

The power wielders whose smarts, connections and clout are changing the world as we know it

What’s on the menu at Drake Commissary, the hospitality group’s new production bakery, bar and restaurant in the Junction Triangle

What’s on the menu at Drake Commissary, the hospitality group’s new production bakery, bar and restaurant in the Junction Triangle

The 5,000-square-foot kitchen is the new heart of the Drake's culinary network

How Jeff Stober turned the Drake Hotel into an empire
City

How Jeff Stober turned the Drake Hotel into an empire

The Drake's owner is a master at exporting his quirky brand of twee

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #36, Jeff Stober
Food & Drink

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #36, Jeff Stober

The king of Queen West has taken his quirky brand of Canadiana on the road

<em>Toronto Life</em> celebrates the most influential Torontonians of 2015 at an exclusive cocktail reception
TL Events

Toronto Life celebrates the most influential Torontonians of 2015 at an exclusive cocktail reception

Pictures from Toronto Life's Most Influential event at the Four Seasons

Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
Food & Drink

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?

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
City

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014

The Drake Hotel probably isn’t taking over Jilly’s, maybe
Real Estate

The Drake Hotel probably isn’t taking over Jilly’s, maybe

Great Spaces: a look inside the lodgings of Drake Hotel owner Jeff Stober
Style

Great Spaces: a look inside the lodgings of Drake Hotel owner Jeff Stober

Prince Edward Bounty: a hedonist’s guide to eating and drinking in Ontario wine country
Food & Drink

Prince Edward Bounty: a hedonist’s guide to eating and drinking in Ontario wine country

The Drake Hotel is expanding to Prince Edward County
City

The Drake Hotel is expanding to Prince Edward County

The Scene: Power Ball 13, a party where people drink a lot and eat meat in designer clothes
City

The Scene: Power Ball 13, a party where people drink a lot and eat meat in designer clothes

Gregory Burke pulled the Power Plant out of debt and enhanced its international reputation. Then, he quit.
City

Gregory Burke pulled the Power Plant out of debt and enhanced its international reputation. Then, he quit.

Seven-year itch: the Drake Hotel announces plans for expansion
Real Estate

Seven-year itch: the Drake Hotel announces plans for expansion

Big Stories

&#8220;I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique&#8221;: a memoir about being homeless during Covid
Memoir

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid

The miserable truth about online school
City

The miserable truth about online school

They were first in line for the vaccine: &#8220;I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare&#8221;
City

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto&#8217;s top chef
Memoir

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever
Memoir

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever

&#8220;I lost three patients in 36 hours&#8221;: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH
Memoir

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH

&#8220;My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult&#8221;
Life

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top 10 longreads of 2020
Deep Dives

Toronto Life’s top 10 longreads of 2020

They survived Covid, but they&#8217;re not okay
Life

They survived Covid, but they’re not okay

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice
City

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice

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