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Oddseoul
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What’s on the menu at Please and Thank You, a new snack and cocktail bar on Ossington
It’s from the team behind Oddseoul
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Toronto’s top takeout spots
Our guide to the most deliriously delicious dishes now available for pickup and delivery
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“I’m contemplating taking a second mortgage out on my home”: How restaurateurs are dealing with the pivot to takeout and delivery
We spoke with some bar and restaurant owners to see how they’re coping.
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Toronto’s best poutine right now
As comfort-food season closes in, we rank the city’s best carb-heavy combos
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The best restaurants on Ossington right now
Our dining picks for the perennially hip north-south strip
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25 of Toronto’s best bars and restaurants for late-night eats
Where you can eat great when it's really, really, really late
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The 100 best cheap eats in Toronto
The best bargain bites, from Bay Street to the burbs
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20 of Toronto’s most preposterous, over-the-top piles of poutine
Bookmark this page for easy late-night referencing
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9 of our favourite Korean restaurants in Toronto
Our favourite places for steaming tofu stew, bowls of bulgogi and all things gochujang
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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Street Wise: how spots like Hanmoto and Lucky Red are bringing the pleasures of Asian street food indoors
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Introducing: Hanmoto, a Little Portugal izakaya from OddSeoul’s co-owner
Name: Hanmoto Contact Info: 2 Lakeview Ave., @HANMOTO_ Neighbourhood: Little Portugal Owner and Executive Chef: Leemo Han...
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Swish by Han is closed; a new restaurant from the owners of Woods is moving in
Swish by Han was the upright Dr. Jekyll to Ossington snack bar Oddseoul' s Mr. Hyde. The two Korean-fusion restaurants, both owned...
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Recipe: how to make the avocado-cilantro slaw from Ossington snack bar Oddseoul
PREP TIME: 15 minutes Serves 4 AVOCADO SLAW 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar ¾ tsp sesame oil ¾ tsp granulated sugar...
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McPretenders: seven Toronto takes on the mighty Big Mac
Toronto’s obsession with fancy fast food isn’t new, but it's growing. As the city's snack bars multiply, so too do the options...
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Chef’s Choice: Danielle Oron of Moo Milk Bar picks her favourite restaurants
Who better to guide a fantasy food tour than a chef? We asked some of the city's top culinary talents to walk us through their...
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Late-Night Food: Toronto’s 15 Best Snack Bars Open After 11 p.m.
Not long ago, late-night food in Toronto was served by a small culinary cartel: fast-food restaurants, fluorescent-lit noodle...
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Multicultural Mash-Ups: three brazen interpretations of Canada’s cultural mosaic on a plate
Owners Leemo and Leeto Han have captured Ossington’s Korean past and hipster present in a noodle bowl. Loaded with Korean...
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The Binge List: top 20 Toronto sandwiches
Not so long ago, Toronto was a white-bread city. That was before chefs started baking Danish rye, sous-viding bacon and otherwise...
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The Dish Power Rankings: the Jack Bauer edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. Bar Isabel...
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The Dish Power Rankings: April fools edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. A long...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Brandon Walsh edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The top...
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Review: Oddseoul, the Korean hipster dive from the brothers behind Swish
Oddseoul ★½ 90 Ossington Ave. From Leeto and Leemo Han, the brothers behind Swish by Han in the Financial District, comes this...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Kumar goes to Guu edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. After...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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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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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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“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
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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