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The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the 24-hour sam gye tang soup at Etsu
Taking responsibility for holiday excesses might be a painful task, but Etsu’s sam gye tang ($23) goes a long way in helping...
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12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
Big-spending downtown Torontonians have taken in the past few years to whining about Winterlicious, but the two-week dining...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $6 chicken curry burrito at the Drake Café
The café at the Drake Hotel is showing a bit of mercy to busy office workers who don’t have time for a sit-down lunch. Its new...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the gooey Dungeness crab mac-and-cheese at Reds
Top toque Michael Steh, bronze medallist at Toronto’s annual Gold Medal Plates competition, is the culinary mastermind behind...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $38 Trust the Chef prix fixe at Didier
Didier Leroy, English Canada's first Maître Cuisinier de France, offers one of Toronto's more curious lunch experiences: a...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $7 stew at Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu
What this little Korean institution lacks in decor it more than makes up for with its namesake specialty, served as part of a set...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $22 Lunch Special at George
Bay Street bistros can be frantic at midday, but at George, a few streets over, noon hour is a tranquil experience, set in a room...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the beef sukiyaki at Tokyo Grill
Turns out Guu isn’t the only place to go for Japanese comfort food. Homesick expats and Japanophiles often turn to the...
Culture
Spy on the stars: midday interview series on Peter Street makes it easy to see celebs
Contrary to popular belief, stars don’t only come out at night, spottable only as they rush from black SUVs to VIP...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Vertical
This financial district mainstay keeps the food fresh and the patio busy The place: Vertical's lofty canopy-covered terrace rises...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Lai Wah Heen
This legendary haute Chinese kitchen delivers a full—and fully delicious—dim sum experience in less than an hour The place:...
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Introducing: Hub, Wallace-Emerson’s new indie coffee shop
Toronto’s wealth of new indie cafés has been a boon to community life, but mostly for neighbourhoods south of Bloor. That's not...
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Introducing: Around the Corner, the west end’s new gluten-free café and breakfast spot
New Toronto—that little pocket of post-war bungalows at Islington and Lakeshore—is teetering on the brink of...
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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...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Loire
The French dishes at this Harbord Street restaurant stun as much at lunch as they do at dinner The place: This south Annex gem...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Delux
Ossington’s French-Cuban fixture has started serving lunch—and there’s plenty to celebrate The place: Now chugging toward...
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Get outside: Toronto’s 10 best patios
The patio season started early this year, which simply means there's more time to hit the city's best al fresco dining and...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Hemispheres
The restaurant at this downtown hotel goes all out for its weekly $27 prix fixe The place: The Metropolitan Hotel’s lobby-level...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Auberge du Pommier
The $18 midday menu at this legendary French fixture is the best lunch north of Bloor The place: Auberge du Pommier is one of...
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Four of Toronto’s best sandwiches
Is it just us, or has the humble sandwich conquered every menu in the city? Below, four tasty picks from this year’s sandwich...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Flavours Fine Food
A former Scaramouche consultant has set up this bustling Bay Street restaurant, which serves gourmet classics at food court prices...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Holts Café
With bread flown in from Paris, this Yorkville institution creates authentic French tartines that are worth the $15 price tag The...
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Two vices are better than one: Toronto’s cafés break out the booze
If we’re to believe Leah McLaren, the MacBook army has totally colonized Toronto’s coffee shops. Now, thanks to a new...
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Best New Restaurants
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling