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Toronto’s best French restaurants

Toronto’s best French restaurants

Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites

The 100 best restaurants in Toronto

The 100 best restaurants in Toronto

After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now

The best restaurants on Ossington right now

The best restaurants on Ossington right now

Our dining picks for the perennially hip north-south strip

Inside the private art collection of La Banane and CXBO Chocolates co-owner Sarah Keenlyside

Inside the private art collection of La Banane and CXBO Chocolates co-owner Sarah Keenlyside

No wall is left uncovered in her gorgeous Kensington Market loft

Inside the kitchen of Brandon Olsen and Sarah Keenlyside, the owners of La Banane and CXBO

Inside the kitchen of Brandon Olsen and Sarah Keenlyside, the owners of La Banane and CXBO

Just a few of the things it's stocked with: chocolate, foie gras, butter and a bowl of Dungeness crabs

15 of our highest-rated new restaurants of 2017

15 of our highest-rated new restaurants of 2017

Our favourite restaurants that opened this year, and what we thought of them

What went down at <em>Toronto Life’s</em> exclusive dinner at La Banane with Brandon Olsen and Norman Hardie
Food & Drink

What went down at Toronto Life’s exclusive dinner at La Banane with Brandon Olsen and Norman Hardie

It was an evening of rich French fare and wine. Lots of wine

What’s being served for <em>Toronto Life’</em>s one-night-only dinner at La Banane
Food & Drink

What’s being served for Toronto Life’s one-night-only dinner at La Banane

Get your tickets before they're gone

<em>Toronto Life</em> is hosting a series of epic dinners at the city’s best restaurants, and you’re invited
Food & Drink

Toronto Life is hosting a series of epic dinners at the city’s best restaurants, and you’re invited

You don't want to miss these one-night-only menus

Here’s what to order at Toronto’s 20 best new restaurants
Food & Drink

Here’s what to order at Toronto’s 20 best new restaurants

Toronto Life's food critic picks the most memorable dishes from 2017's best new restaurants.

Toronto’s best new restaurants 2017
Food & Drink

Toronto’s best new restaurants 2017

Our restaurant critic searched high and low for the city's most essential new eateries. Here's our annual ranking of the year's top tables

15 new restaurants to check out in March

15 new restaurants to check out in March

Where to find ceviche, pancit, deep-dish pizza and the perfect omelette right now

What’s on the menu at La Banane, Brandon Olsen’s fancy, French-inspired restaurant on Ossington

What’s on the menu at La Banane, Brandon Olsen’s fancy, French-inspired restaurant on Ossington

Including something called a "Ziggy Stardust Disco Egg"

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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