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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top 10 new pasta dishes
Perfectly pillowy gnocchi, whole-lobster spaghetti, dual-personality agnolotti and more
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Memoir
“As a home cook eager to improve, I was thrilled to sous for one of my favourite chefs”
Evan Webster, a 31-year-old software sales manager from midtown, got a crash course in the exacting standards of DaiLo chef Nick Liu
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Charlemagne, Café Renée’s second-floor speakeasy
Including an all-dumpling snack menu
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Café Renée, chef Nick Liu’s Italian-inspired French restaurant
Including a sheet of ravioli and a crème brûlée espresso martini that are blowing up on Instagram
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TL Insider
A Q&A with DaiLo’s Nick Liu, TL Insider’s chef-in-residence for June
See what he has in store for members this month
Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: DaiLo chef Nick Liu’s deep-fried glazed doughnuts
Follow along at home
Food & Drink
“My landlord said I should take ‘Iranian’ out of the name”: How five Toronto restaurateurs are dealing with the reality of the coronavirus
What happens when social distancing takes priority over sitting down for a meal
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top chefs reveal their go-to neighbourhood restaurants and all-time favourite dishes
Spoiler alert: Edulis is pretty popular
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Nick Liu, the executive chef of DaiLo and Little DaiLo
A few of the things it's stocked with: Chef Boyardee ravioli, instant noodles and a whole lotta vodka
Food & Drink
Here’s what happened when DaiLo chef Nick Liu cooked Chinese food from a 119-year-old menu
Using inscrutable descriptions like “nut fruit,” “white plant” and “rice bird”
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Food & Drink
Here’s what you’ll be eating at Assembly Chef’s Hall, a massive new food hall in the core
It's the food court to end all food courts
Food & Drink
Here’s what was served at The Stop’s sixth annual all-you-can-eat-and-drink night market
Just some of the 44 dishes and drinks that were served
Food & Drink
Here’s what it looks like when 10 top chefs work together for a one-night-only dinner service
See what went down at this year's second Chefs for Change dinner
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s top 10 late-night snacks, and where to find them
Ten places in Toronto to eat really great, really late
Food & Drink
Six Toronto chefs got to design the ice cream bowl of their dreams. Here’s how they turned out
That one to the left is Nick Liu's
Food & Drink
Where DaiLo’s Nick Liu eats in the burbs
His favourite restaurants in Markham and Richmond Hill (and what he orders at each one)
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Food & Drink
Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
There are plenty of great places to eat on the east side—it just hasn’t exploded the way the west has over the last five years. How come?
Food & Drink
Loka Snacks’ Dave Mottershall is Kickstarting a restaurant (and he’s looking for a west-end location)
Chef Dave Mottershall , who operates Loka Snacks out of Riverside's Hi-Lo Bar , has a goal: to open his own restaurant. But what...
Food & Drink
China Syndrome: DaiLo is a sexy, thrumming rendition of Toronto’s new wave pan-Asian cuisine
Chinese fried rice is one of my basic food groups, along with Nibs at the movies, cherry pie at a diner and, before shovelling the...
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Chef Nick Liu (finally) finds a location for GwaiLo, his long-awaited Asian brasserie
Two years can be an eternity in the service industry. Ask chef Nick Liu: that’s how long it took him to find a home for GwaiLo...
Food & Drink
Gallery: 8 inventive takes on pho, ramen and other noodle dishes at Slurp Noodlefest
The city’s hard-core ramen fixation has been going strong for about a year now, but it was an earlier Toronto noodle...
Food & Drink
Slurp Noodlefest takes over The Great Hall next month
Toronto is in the midst of a serious ramen fixation, so it’s only fitting that the latest food event from the trend-savvy Food...
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Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2012’s biggest food trends, from the shadow return of fusion to the reign of ramen
Taste moves in waves: one year tall food is on every menu in town, and the next year, it’s a half-forgotten...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 26 to December 2
Monday November 26 Tuesday November 27 Wednesday November 28 Thursday November 29 Friday November 30 Saturday December 1 Sunday...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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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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Guelph is having a moment
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A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer