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Kensington Market
Food & Drink
Chris Nuttall-Smith on the craft-brewing movement that’s taking over Toronto
In a dingy former office at the back of Great Lakes Brewery in Etobicoke, nine waist-high, 50-litre fermenters gently burble with...
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City News
How Toronto’s lavishly rich Latner family is tearing itself apart
Albert Latner made his fortune in real estate, health care and casinos, and lavished his four children with riches. After his wife...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $900,000 for a two-storey Trinity Bellwoods townhome
ADDRESS : 1-257 Euclid Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD : Trinity Bellwoods AGENT : Stacey Robinson , Royal LePage Real Estate Services...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Mr. Cream, a new ice cream shop in Kensington Market
For a neighbourhood with so much pedestrian traffic, especially during Pedestrian Sundays, it was just a matter of time until...
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Food & Drink
DIY Barbecue Guide: Peter Sanagan’s favourite cuts of beef for the barbecue
Peter Sanagan, the young chef-turned-butcher and owner of Sanagan’s Meat Locker in Kensington Market, shares his favourite cuts...
Food & Drink
Kensington Market’s Fresco’s fish and chips get Ocean Wise seal of approval
A little over a year ago, Michael Fresco took over the Kensington Market fish and chip joint Something’s Fishy . He jazzed up...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review Agave y Aguacate, Fanny Chadwick’s and Liberty Belle Bistro
Mexican street food reborn in the market, a greasy spoon–less diner on Dupont, and Liberty Village’s latest bistro Agave y...
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Culture
Ryan Gosling to star in his own directorial debut: a remake of 1980s musical The Idolmaker
What can we say? We love us some Ryan Gosling . So when we heard that the London, Ontario, native has signed on to direct and star...
City News
Check out BIXI Toronto’s 80 downtown bike locations on one interactive map
BIXI is slated to launch in Toronto on May 3 with 1,000 bikes spread out over 80 stations. While we’re all for bringing the...
City News
SPOTTED! Ryan Gosling needing a Kensington Market shopping companion
It isn’t every day that a celebrity is spotted casually walking around Kensington Market ( Rachel McAdams not withstanding), but...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the heavenly tinga tostada at Agave y Aguacate
Desperate for decent street food, eager Torontonians line up daily at this little Mexican food stall in Kensington...
Food & Drink
Top Chef Canada contestants announced; we round up the six Torontonians who made the cut
We’re already on the record as counting down the days until the April 11 debut of Top Chef Canada (it’s 42, in case you were...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Pamenar, Kensington’s latest coffee shop and community hangout
Pouria Lotfi has been dreaming of opening a coffee shop in downtown Toronto for over six years—he actually bought his La...
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City News
Convicted shoplifter banned from Chinatown and Kensington Market
Helping yourself to a five-finger discount has never been so sticky: Anthony Bennett , a 52-year-old with a history of repeated...
Food & Drink
La Palette shuttering its Kensington location this weekend
When Shamez Amlani muses about this coming Sunday, it’s not without a little sentimentality. Three days from now, the restaurant...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Goed Eten, where we find the city’s best waffles
When Johan Maes closed his beloved Kensington Market waffle shack in 2008, his loyal customers were bereft. His reopening on...
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Toronto’s six most memorable neighbourhood naming smackdowns
Toronto: city of neighbourhoods, multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, bureaucracy. These three attributes collide most often...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: 14 picks for the top food in Toronto
Korean feast Owl of Minerva 700 Bloor St. W., 416-538-3030 The trendy Asian cuisine of the moment is at its most authentic when...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: four top new venues to drink, dance and party
variation on bottle service Brooklynn 1186 Queen St. W., 416-536-7700 A request for bottle service, that ostentatious nightclub...
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Real Estate News
With his one-time Toronto home to be demolished, Frank Gehry calls incoming condos “awful,” with “shitty-looking” lobby
The childhood home of legendary architect Frank Gehry, located near the AGO on Beverley Street, is apparently slated for...
City News
Toronto MP Joe Volpe proposes new rights for shopkeepers, including bondage
One of the larger controversies in Chinatown and Kensington Market over the past year has been the case of David Chen, who is...
Style
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library closes after speculation
It looks like the curtain has closed on This Ain’t the Rosedale Library —for now, at least. In a blog post explaining that a...
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This Ain’t the Rosedale Library addresses closure rumours
Toronto's literary set assumed the worst on Saturday when a bailiff’s notice appeared in the window of This Ain’t the Rosedale...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling