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Little Portugal
Food & Drink
Review: Mr. Flamingo has tons of cool cred (and pretty great food)
Mr. Flamingo ★★ 1265 Dundas St. W., 647-351-1100 The staff at the new 34-seat restaurant on the corner of Dundas West is a...
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Food & Drink
Former Spoke Club chef Ren Mercer brings vegetarian takeout to Dundas West
If you're looking for a pulled pork sandwich, or a basket of fried chicken, or a $14 bourbon cocktail, you can't beat Dundas...
Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $450,000 to live in a boutique building on Dundas West
Address: 1636 Dundas Street West , Unit 6 Neighbourhood: Little Portugal Agent: Alex Brott , Keller Williams Referred Urban Realty...
Food & Drink
Little Portugal gets a sporty new addition
The Contender, a new sports bar in Little Portugal, is a bit of a departure for the trendy stretch of Dundas between Ossington and...
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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $500,000 for a loft located at the nexus of west-end cool
Address: 150 Sudbury Street , Unit 1911 Neighbourhood: Little Portugal Agent: Christopher Bibby and Christopher Harrop , Sutton...
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: the $630,000 Little Portugal semi that shows how far a few small upgrades can go
Address: 1 Delaney Crescent Neighbourhood: Little Portugal Agent: Leila Brewster and Colby Bayne , Royal LePage Real Estate...
City News
RAT APOCALYPSE! Toronto’s new home invaders are growing in shocking numbers
An investigation into how Toronto became a vermin breeding ground
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $3.3 million for a palace of kitsch in Little Portugal
Address: 224 Dovercourt Road Neighbourhood: Little Portugal Agent: Sam McDadi , Sam McDadi Real Estate Price: $3,299,000 The...
Culture
TIFF Party: Aussies rule at the Felony cast dinner at Hudson Kitchen
In the span of a single week, new Dundas West restaurant Hudson Kitchen has morphed from fledgling Little Portugal outpost into...
Style
Style Mates: the co-owners of L’Ouvrier restaurant open up their chic Little Portugal home
Justine Fowler and Angus Bennett are the 30-year-old co-owners of the Dundas West restaurant L’Ouvrier (Bennett is also the...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I stop guys from pestering me when I’m jogging?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I jog every day in and around Little Portugal. The older men in the...
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...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Guild, a new contemporary Canadian restaurant on Dundas West
Name: The Guild Contact info: 1442 Dundas St. W., 647-343-7288, guildresto.com Owner and chef: Mani Binelli (Centro, Auberge du...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Mr. Pong’s Bar, a new Little Portugal watering hole from the people behind Cold Tea
Mr. Pong’s Real Food, the Canadian-Chinese restaurant that provided fuel for so many late nights on Queen West in the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Red Fish, a new West Coast–inspired seafood restaurant on College
Ever since brunch favourite Mitzi’s on College closed late February, Little Portugal residents have been crossing their fingers...
City News
The Argument: In Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley transforms Toronto into a brightly coloured urban fantasy
In the middle of directing Take This Waltz, recently released in theatres, Sarah Polley hit a snag. She desperately wanted to get...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: The Mexi-Can Market, a diminutive taste of Mexico in Little Portugal
Just over a year ago, Pavel Valdez, then 18, moved to Brampton from California to study business at Humber College. He’s already...
City News
How running became the city’s collective obsession
Last year I turned 30, broke up with my long-term boyfriend and moved into a tiny apartment for one. The domestic vision I’d had...
Shopping
Introducing: Lost and Found, the Dundas West boutique carrying Charlotte Ronson and (soon) Uniqlo
UPDATE: Lost and Found has now moved to 44 Ossington Avenue. The place: Lost and Found , a new clothing boutique and espresso...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $960,000 for this Little Portugal reno
ADDRESS: 7 Marshall St. NEIGHBOURHOOD: Little Portugal AGENT: Aniceto Gomes , Remax West Realty Inc. PRICE: $959,000 THE PLACE:...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Churchill, the latest lo-fi bar on “destination” Dundas West
Remember West Queen West before it was a zoo? The folks at Churchill, Little Portugal’s newest bar, sure do. The owners of the...
Real Estate News
House of the week: $2.25 million for a designer original in Little Portugal
ADDRESS: 6A Brockton Ave. NEIGHBOURHOOD: Little Portugal AGENT: Paul Johnston , Right at Home Realty Inc., Brokerage PRICE:...
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Style
Taking Stock: five Toronto trendsetters tell us what they can’t live without
We talked to five Toronto trendsetters from the fashion, art and design worlds who make a living selling style. Here, an inventory...
Food & Drink
The Dundas West Guide: our 21 favourite places between Ossington and Lansdowne
The strip of Dundas West between Ossington and Lansdowne has not been immune to the wild gentrification going on directly south of...
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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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