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Food & Drink
La Carnita’s Andrew Richmond shopping for permanent digs
After drawing monster crowds for his La Carnita pop-ups, it seems design-director-cum-roving-taco-man Andrew Richmond is scouting...
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Real Estate News
Condomonium: $795,000 for a sub-penthouse suite in Seventy5 Portland, with common space designed by Philippe Starck
ADDRESS: 75 Portland Street, Unit 904 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Waterfront Communities—The Island AGENT: Brandon Ware and Lee Michael...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hush, Gabby’s new, upscale sibling on King West
Todd Sherman , owner of the new King Street restaurant Hush , is no stranger to the food business. With many years at the...
Food & Drink
A first-person stumble through Toronto’s second Dishcrawl
Back in September, we told you about Dishcrawl, the San Franciso–born pub crawl for foodies that was set to make its first...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 2, Rock n’ Peach Bliss Cheesecake
Two episodes into the Food Network Canada’s new televised PC product development lab , it’s starting to sink in that things...
Culture
SPOTTED: Paul Giamatti declining to mug for the cameras on King West (allegedly)
Now that every fan with a cell phone has become a part-time paparazzo, it ain’t easy out there for a star. Apparently, Paul...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Wvrst and Mavrik
A modern beer-and-sausage hall on King and a quintessential wine bar on Queen WVRST 609 King St. W., 416-703-7775 Chef Aldo...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a luxe take on a classic sandwich at a new King West TIFF hub
This Thursday marks the start of TIFF, with its usual flurry of stars. Celeb hunters hoping to avoid the red carpet crush should...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a pretty beet salad and a pair of seared scallops at O&B Canteen
Finding decent fuel between movies and celebrity gawking can be difficult during TIFF, but one advantage of the festival’s move...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a beer and a guinea fowl sausage on King West
Wvrst , the new King West version of a Munich-style beer hall, takes a simple concept and provides enormous variety, with 18...
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City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 44, The Lightbox serves Milk Duds
The assets of the Lightbox, the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival, are many: the intelligent movie...
Food & Drink
Introducing: WVRST, King West’s new sausage and beer hall
More and more, it seems as though Clubland is outgrowing its old epicentre at the Richmond and John area and oozing west along...
Food & Drink
Marben set to host Toronto’s latest sausage fest on Wednesday nights
Completing its transition from King West chic to rustic barnyard, Marben has announced it’s hosting the first annual Marben...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review the Gabardine, Parkette and Khao San Road
A laid-back Bay Street pub, real vs. backpacker Thai and our enduring love for rustic Italian THE GABARDINE 372 Bay...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Blowfish on Bay, the financial district outpost of the King Street resto-lounge
The owners of King West Asian fusion resto-lounge Blowfish are banking on the Bay Street crowd with their newest venture, Blowfish...
Food & Drink
Momofu-T.O.? Rumours swirling that N.Y.C.’s David Chang to open Toronto location in late 2012
There must be something in the air, soil or, more likely, our flirtation with luxury chain hotel/condos. First Scarpetta ’s...
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City News
King State of Mind: When did the once-cool King West strip descend into a mess of stretch Hummers, drunken bachelorettes and last-call brawls?
Scenes from a never-ending party “Let’s get drunk and fuck! Let’s get drunk and fuck!” I’m at Cobra, a King West club in...
Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Thor Espresso Bar, which has “the coolest espresso machine on the planet”
There’s more to making good espresso than having really cool gadgets. That’s why Patrick Tu —who opened Thor Espresso Bar on...
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Food & Drink
Three GTA hot spots make it onto En Route’s list of the best new restaurants in Canada
En Route ’s annual best new restaurants list is out, and it contains good news for the culinary scene in and around Toronto. A...
Food & Drink
Marc Thuet closes Conviction for good, but has two new restaurants in the works
Just over a year after opening Conviction —the third incarnation of their flagship restaurant—chef Marc Thuet and partner...
Real Estate News
The Bell Lightbox is also a giant money box
The numbers are in. Not surprisingly, credit card spending was up in the Entertainment District, while Yorkville saw a slight...
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Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: Nick Di Donato on how to throw a film festival party
Nick Di Donato , president and CEO of Liberty Entertainment Group, is sitting in his newest Yorkville restaurant, Ciao , where...
Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: an Alliance Films VP gives her run down of this year’s fest
On Friday morning, Carrie Wolfe , the vice president of publicity and promotion for Alliance Films, was packing up her...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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Just Listed
For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment