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Toronto’s best bread right now
Our picks for the city's best boules, batards and baguettes
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Toronto bakeries selling house-made panettone for the holidays
These are no mass-produced loaves
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Toronto’s best gourmet grocers
Our go-to spots where grocery shopping doesn’t feel like a chore
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Toronto’s best pre-packed picnic baskets
For all of your al-fresco feast needs this summer
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Toronto restaurants that have morphed into markets selling groceries, meal kits and food-box subscriptions
Including Buca, Montgomery's and Mattachioni
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Toronto’s bread-loving bakers share their sourdough-starter origin stories
Including a WWI-era starter from France and one that was brought to life in the Yukon 123 years ago
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Hot Plate: Five mortadella sandwiches you need to eat right now
The Italian cold cut is having a moment
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Toronto’s best Italian restaurants
Toronto Life's favourite places to carbo-load
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Toronto’s best happy hours
Our favourites places for discounted drinks
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Where chef Danny McCallum eats sourdough bread, spaghetti bolognese and Italian desserts in his Junction neighbourhood
The Jacob's and Co. chef takes us for a tour of his favourite Junction joints
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The best meal deals in Toronto by day of the week
Where to find BOGO burger deals, unlimited oysters and all-you-can-eat pierogis
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their go-to neighbourhood restaurants and all-time favourite dishes
Spoiler alert: Edulis is pretty popular
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15 of our favourite restaurants and bars perfect for last-minute Valentine’s Day dates
No reservations required
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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
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Inside the kitchen of Prince Edward County winemaker Norman Hardie
A few of the things it's stocked with: Marmite, maple syrup, and a whole lotta meat
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The 25 best pastas in Toronto right now
From agnolotti to ziti
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The 24 best sandwiches in Toronto right now
Two dozen of the city's tastiest handheld creations
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Six zucchini flower dishes that won’t be around for long
These awesome blossoms are on menus right now
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Mattachioni, an Italian bodega from a Terroni alum, is now open in the Junction Triangle
Earlier this summer, a Portuguese bakery at the western edge of the Junction Triangle was quietly replaced by Mattachioni , an...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions