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Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Anh Dao
The bún at Pho Hung may have a great reputation, but this version of the one-bowl wonder is better and cheaper at just $6 The...
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best brunch: five dishes that can make the weekend
Brunch is a way of life in this town, where we’ll queue with bed head and a hangover for perfect eggs. Below, five dishes worth...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
This Kensington Market restaurant elevates a cafeteria classic to a delectable lunch, served with a creamy soup and a shot of...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Cloud Espresso Bar brings Bonjour Brioche’s former chef to Queen West
For all the fawning over Richard Florida, Toronto’s “creative class” still finds itself stuck in the abstract. Even those...
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Where to eat lunch this week
As temperatures drop, midday comfort food seems more and more appealing. Here, an $11 lunch combo that conquers the chill. •...
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Where to eat lunch this week: $3.28 dim sum
The dim sum choices in Chinatown can easily overwhelm, but this long-time favourite rises above the rest with fresh and comforting...
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Where to eat lunch this week
This popular sandwich shop across from Rosedale Station proves that simple needn’t be plain. We stop in for a midday taste of...
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Where to eat lunch this week
Bay Street gets health-conscious at this subterranean jewel. With nothing over 650 calories—not even this bison burger—the...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Jules
This week’s pick is a $25 prix fixe deal that’s quite possibly the closest thing downtowners can get to a midday trip to...
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Where to eat lunch this week
Just in time for the hottest week of the year (so far), patrons can sit on the patio at one of Toronto's best new restaurants and...
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Where to eat lunch this week
The midday special at Queen Street hot spot Nota Bene features dazzling papardelle at Terroni prices. We dine in style for the...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
This little Japanese bar is big on taste and originality—a welcome change from the city’s predictable midday sushi...
Food & Drink
Final throes: Where to find a table during the last weekend of Summerlicious
The dog days of Summerlicious are here, and with reservations down at top restaurants across the city, many tables are sitting...
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Where to eat lunch this week
Every Monday, Toronto Life reveals its Weekly Lunch Pick. Today, we recommend an urban oasis that is right downtown, but tucked...
Food & Drink
Get outside: More new patios open in Toronto
With the summertime gods finally smiling, we took another look around town for patios that have sprouted up this...
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To a tea: a look at one of Toronto’s truly unique dining experiences
Anyone who believes afternoon tea is a stuffy, doily-laced affair has never experienced it at the Windsor Arms. The Yorkville...
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Jamie Kennedy sets the record straight on the Gardiner, the debts, and the Wine Bar sale
Last month, Jamie Kennedy called a press conference to talk about the transformation of his Gardiner restaurant from a fine dining...
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Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
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Mitzi’s: The College Years
A new sibling in the Mitzi’s family— Mitzi’s on College —will open at 890 College Street in early July. With Mitzi’s...
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Where to eat lunch
Some of the city's smartest culinary students serve their fare at two midday seatings. The prices are reasonable (prix fixe menus...
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How does your Gardiner grow? Jamie Kennedy reveals his plans for the downtown dining destination
Having served the last à la carte meal at the Gardiner on June 7, local produce booster Jamie Kennedy invited professional...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch
This week, our lunch pick is a calming Japanese restaurant that caters to Bay Streeters and casual diners alike. The deal? A...
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Where to eat near BMO Field
Heading to the Toronto Football Club game next Saturday? Keep in mind that outside food and drinks are not allowed at BMO...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
Our weekly search for Toronto's best midday meals led us to this amazing Chinese dining hall. The two-bite delicacies offer some...
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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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
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