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Dear Urban Diplomat: are restaurants allowed to refuse us a doggy bag?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently ate at Acadia, a new restaurant on Clinton Street. The meal was great, but when we...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for May 14 to 20
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 30 to May 6
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Food & Drink
La Carnita to quit its wandering ways and open a permanent shop on College Street
La Carnita, the wildly popular roving taco stand, has finally found a spot to settle down, according to a post by Corey Mintz on...
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Playful Grounds, the new kid-friendly coffee shop in Little Italy
Playful Grounds has only been open a few days, but the kid-friendly College Street café is already garnering plenty of attention...
Food & Drink
Introducing: BruDa, a new pan-European restaurant from two Little Italy vets
Little Italy has seen a brisk changing of the guard in the past couple years, with the rise of new buzzy spots like...
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Food & Drink
Nine members of Toronto’s backyard-chicken underground on the special bond between man and bird
On November 30, councillors Joe Mihevc and Mary-Margaret McMahon took on the considerable challenge of trying to overturn nearly...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $800,000 for a converted condo in a Methodist church at Dovercourt and Bloor
ADDRESS: 701 Dovercourt Rd., Unit 305 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Palmerston-Little Italy AGENT: Daiva Dalinda, Royal LePage PRICE: $749,500...
Real Estate News
The Chase: A couple finds the street life of their native Caracas at Yonge and Eglinton (of all places)
The Buyers: Venezuelan expats Adriana Rosemberg, a 29-year-old scriptwriter, and her husband Jonathan, a 32-year-old ad...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Hey Meatball!, Rodney Bowers’s new Little Italy mix ’n’ match meatball joint
On a wall in Rodney Bowers’s new College Street venture Hey Meatball! , there’s a photo of a bandana-clad Bowers holding up a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Acadia, Scott Selland and Matt Blondin’s new southern-inspired College Street restaurant
Earlier this summer we previewed Acadia , a new venture by first-time restaurateur Scott Selland ( Splendid o, Colborne...
Style
Great Spaces: A Toronto screenwriting couple steals a home renovation idea from their own show
Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer met at film school in Vancouver more than 15 years ago and have been romantically and...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $799,000 for a chic home in a trendy west-end neighbourhood
ADDRESS : 6 Shannon Street NEIGHBOURHOOD : Palmerston–Little Italy AGENT : Michael Camber , Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Briscola, Cinq 01’s rustic Italian successor
Briscola, the new rustic Italian restaurant from Ink Entertainment ’s Charles Khabouth and Amber ’s Toufik Sarwa , opened last...
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City News
Awesome Foundation’s first grant winner, Stephanie Avery, to play connect the dots with Toronto
Who’s the awesomest of them all? According to the Toronto branch of the Awesome Foundation , it's Stephanie Avery , who was...
Food & Drink
Modern comforts: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Woodlot and Ici Bistro
Two neighbourhood restaurants serve up light-handed renditions of our rib-sticking favourites The comfort food revolution has...
City News
The Conversation: Claudia Dey and Bridget Stutchbury discuss sex
The place: Arabesque Café in Little Italy. The people: writer Claudia Dey and biologist Bridget Stutchbury. The subject: the sex...
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City News
Urban Diplomat: what to do when a cyclist is breaking the law with a toddler in tow
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was cycling behind a father with a toddler in a rear bike seat, and he was weaving in and out of...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review three of the city’s new restaurants
Religious burgers, heavenly house-made bread and a world-class oenophile THE BURGER’S PRIEST 1636 Queen St. E., 647-346-0617 The...
City News
Q&A with Doug Saunders, City Slicker
Why Doug Saunders, a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail , could have called his new book The Torontoification of the...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Aunties and Uncles
This urban oasis near U of T nails the '50s nostalgia and the chicken sandwich The place: If restaurants were swimsuits, Aunties...
Real Estate News
Buy in Rosedale or Little Italy? One couple’s $700,000 real estate compromise leads them to the Annex
She wanted to buy in Rosedale. He didn’t. After an epic 10-month, 140-house search, they settled on a fixer-upper in the Annex...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Just Listed
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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