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Mercury Espresso Bar

City

How National Ballet dancer Heather Ogden would spend a perfect Saturday in Leslieville

Fashion

Street Style: 16 looks at Queen Street’s baristas from east to west

Restaurants

Introducing: Fidel Gastro’s, the sandwich-toting pop-up revolutionary

Restaurants

Best of the City 2011: Six of Toronto’s tastiest treats and where to get them

Bakeries and Cafés

The rise of the indie coffee mini-empire

Bakeries and Cafés

Foam craft: seven baristas show us their best latte art

Bakeries and Cafés

Double latte, double standard: indie cafés slammed for being too popular

Food
BNN legitimizes McDonald’s–Tim Hortons coffee war in excruciatingly long taste test
Food
Despite rumours, Mercury Espresso Bar is not closing
Food

Toronto’s espresso experts tell us of coffee’s second coming, what makes a good cup and why Starbucks isn’t all bad

Quarantine Relief

Restaurants

Toronto restaurants offering fancy food for takeout and delivery

Food

10 Toronto stores that will deliver ice cream and gelato right to your door

Food

Toronto restaurants and stores selling boxes filled with everything you need for a backyard barbecue

Shopping

Seven toy stores offering delivery in Toronto—plus their picks for crafts, puzzles and backyard games to keep kids entertained

Shopping

Six gardening shops doing delivery—plus their pandemic planting recommendations

Wine and Beer

What beers Toronto brewers are drinking in isolation—and how you can have them delivered

Movies and TV

Every new title coming to Netflix Canada in June

Food

Five wholesale food distributors that are now open to the public

Food

A breakdown of Toronto-based grocery delivery services

Shopping

Five Toronto board game stores doing delivery—plus their pandemic recommendations

Food

Toronto restaurants that have morphed into markets selling groceries, meal kits and food-box subscriptions

Books

Eleven Toronto bookstores doing delivery—plus their quarantine reading recommendations

Health and Beauty

Toronto gyms offering livestream classes for house-bound fitness freaks

Food

Virtual farmers’ markets: Nine ways to get local produce, grass-fed beef, sheep’s milk gelato and artisanal cheese delivered to your door

Wine and Beer

15 breweries, wineries and distilleries offering delivery for house-bound happy hours

Wine and Beer

Rare wines, bottled cocktails and other drinks you can order from Toronto bars and restaurants right now

Big Stories

Sports

How the pandemic turned e-sports into a multi-billion-dollar industry

Food

30 amazing takeout spots

City

“Getting Covid reminded me how lucky I am at a time when I needed reminding”: How the pandemic is changing lives

City

“It costs $1 million a year to feed the animals”: How the Toronto Zoo is functioning without revenue

Food

Toronto’s best new restaurants 2020

City

Fourteen days on the Covid Ward at Sunnybrook: a memoir

Memoir

The inside of an ICE detention centre is as horrific as you think. I know because I spent 45 days in one

City

“The normal rhythms of Toronto have been obliterated”

Crime

He seemed like the perfect son. Then he confessed to slaughtering his family with a crowbar

City

How to enjoy life without screwing the next generation

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