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Ossington
Culture
This Ossington bar is about to become the pub from
Peaky Blinders
Get ready to shout, “Oi, Mista!”
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Food & Drink
This iconic Toronto pizzeria is entering its nightlife era
Hello, cheap cocktails and two different happy hours every single day
Food & Drink
A devastating fire and a battle with cancer couldn’t stop this Toronto bar owner
Neon Tiger’s Naveen Chakravarti is a force to be reckoned with
Food & Drink
Breakfast is back at Toronto’s favourite Cuban restaurant
La Cubana’s Ossington location is now open for early risers
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Food & Drink
A popular Ossington restaurant is opening a second location
Mamakas Summerhill will open in 2026
Food & Drink
Ossington’s new martini bar has a champagne vending machine
Small Talk, a martini bar and jazz club, is now open in the old Baby Huey space
Food & Drink
The restaurant that replaced a popular Portuguese bakery on Ossington is now open
Toronto’s first location of Calgary-based Central Restaurant is bringing comfort food, cocktails and a year-round patio to the strip
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Food & Drink
The Toronto location of Vietnam’s Michelin-starred Lunch Lady is now open
Late chef and founder Nguyen Thi Thanh started it as a soup stall in Ho Chi Minh City—now it’s on Ossington
Food & Drink
Linny’s Steakhouse has a new sister deli serving massive sandwiches
Come for the pastrami, stay for the smoked fish salad and pickle seltzer
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bonito’s, a new Korean Ecuadorian diner on Ossington
It’s from the team behind Milou and Bar Bowie
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Food & Drink
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
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at No Vacancy, a swanky new cocktail bar on Ossington from the team behind Ghost Chicken
Including sweet and savoury boozy drinks, Japanese-inspired snacks and, yes, fried chicken (but only if you know to ask for it)
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Linny’s, chef David Schwartz’s new deli-inspired steakhouse
Including chicken liver toast, chocolate babka and caviar service
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Rhapsody, a new bar on Ossington for Nikkei cuisine and cocktails
It's from the owner of Little Italy's Mrs. Robinson
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Trapézi, a new private-dining experience from the Mamakas Food Group
Just in time for holiday party planning
Real Estate News
Price Check: How about a High Park condo, a semi on Ossington or an East York bungalow?
What kind of home can $1 million land you this fall? Three different neighbourhoods tell three different stories
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Crafty Ramen, Toronto’s first location of the popular Guelph-based noodle biz
Including bowls with vegan broth and noodles
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Downtown Winery, a new winery, snack bar and bottle shop on Ossington
Wine Country appeal—without the drive
Food & Drink
A Q&A with the co-owner of popular salad restaurant Mandy’s, about potato chip mix-ins, TikTok trends and how much is too much for a salad
"Our avocado costs alone have gone up almost 50 percent"
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bellwoods Brewpub, the Ossington brewery’s big new expansion next door
It adds more than 1,000 square feet of seating space
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Man of Kent, a British pub on Ossington taking its food to the next level
They've partnered with Adam Squires, the maestro of meat pies
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Mandy’s, Toronto’s first location of the Montreal-based salad chain with a cult following
It's the trendiest new place to get your greens
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Hay bales, hot drinks and heat lamps: This secret patio behind a secret bar is serving up boozy cocoa and fall-on-the-farm feels
It's like being at a farm—if that farm served cognac-spiked cider
Food & Drink
Blender drinks, burlesque dancing and figure skating: How one Ossington bar is keeping things interesting during Covid
Yes, actual figure skating
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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
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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