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Kensington Market
Food & Drink
Review: Seven Lives, a bustling takeout taqueria in Kensington Market
Seven Lives ★ 69 Kensington Ave., @SevenLivesTO Just when we thought Toronto had reached the maximum municipal quota of...
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Style
Street Style: tattoos both beautiful and badass in Kensington Market
Kensington Market and tattoo enthusiasts have a shared creed: both communities prize individuality, artistry and a rebel spirit...
Food & Drink
Reason to Love Toronto: because there’s a new crop of old-fashioned food shops in Kensington
A decade after “locavore” and “foodie” entered the lexicon, Toronto has reached a fever pitch of $10 jams infused with...
Food & Drink
Adam Vaughan proposes a Parkdale-style bar ban on Kensington Market
Once quaint and charmingly grungy Kensington is rapidly gentrifying. New gourmet food shops, including Thomas Lavers, Hooked and...
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Food & Drink
Hogtown Charcuterie is being replaced by Rasta Pasta in Kensington Market
Hogtown Charcuterie, the gingham-clad Eastern European deli that opened in Kensington last December, is closed. The owner Pawel...
Food & Drink
Grocery store, deli, coffee house and gelato spot Senisi Fine Foods opens on College Street
Senisi Fine Foods is inspired by Latin America’s bodegas: small neighbourhood stores that carry a little bit of everything. The...
City News
The threat of a big-box development is still alive in Kensington Market—but so is Casa Acoreana
The developer hoping to build a big-box development on the western edge of Kensington Market isn’t giving up. After both the...
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Food & Drink
The Beer Store is giving four stores a boutique makeover
The Ontario beer chain owned by Labatt, Molson and Sleeman’s is completely revamping four GTA locations—College and...
Food & Drink
Beloved taco spot Agave y Aguacate is back in Baldwin Village
Mexican-born chef Francisco Alejandri opened a Kensington Market taco stand in 2011, ahead of the current craze. With only a...
Shopping
Mother’s Day Guide: 10 ways to treat your mom to a memorable day out
Your mom loves you, so she’ll no doubt coo over a standard Mother’s Day bouquet. However, you can really show the depth of...
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Style
Shop Talk: new stores and shopping websites from April 2013
Opened Yorkdale Mall, 3401 Dufferin St., 416-789-3261, ca.allsaints.com The latest arrival to the Ossington strip’s burgeoning...
Food & Drink
Splendido chef Victor Barry is opening a new café in Kensington Market
In the last year, new gourmet food shops, like the refurbished Sanagan’s Meat Locker, Hogtown Charcuterie and Hooked, have...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Seven Lives, the new Kensington Market location of the pop-up taco shop
Name: Seven Lives Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 69 Kensington Ave., sevenlives.ca, @SevenLivesTO Owner and chef:...
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Food & Drink
Seven Lives is opening a standalone taqueria in Kensington Market
Seven Lives, the popular SoCal- and Tijuana-style taco stall that operates out of El Gordo Fine Foods on Augusta, is graduating to...
Food & Drink
The Kensington Brewing Company is opening a dedicated brewery and bar
Brock Shepherd, owner of Kensington Brewing Company, announced today that his small craft brewery will finally be getting its own...
Real Estate News
A rent hike in the heart of Kensington Market could force out several long running businesses
The leases in a building at the centre of Kensington Market expire May 31, which could mean big changes for the eclectic area. The...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: two consultants brave a blind bid process for a home in Kensington Market
The buyer: Diana Wong and Avnish Babla, both 30-year-old management consultants. The story: Wong and Babla first met at Western in...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Burgernator, a new shop for burger lovers in Kensington Market
Name: The Burgernator Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact info: 269 Augusta...
Style
Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
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The Weekender: Sing-Along Messiah, Wildlife and five other events on our to-do list
1. SING-ALONG MESSIAH That only-used-in-the-shower voice deserves to be heard, so why not join your fellow shower-belters in some...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hogtown Charcuterie, Kensington Market’s new spot for prepared meats
It’s no secret that pig is big right now. The aptly named Hogtown Charcuterie, in Kensington Market, offers a wide selection of...
Food & Drink
Where to find the best heritage breed turkeys in Toronto
We’re a city obsessed with eating local, and when it comes to planning the biggest dinner of the year, we’re even more...
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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.
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.
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Best Restaurants
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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
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