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Lakeview Restaurant is going retail with a new Dundas West store
For Fadi Hakim , co-owner of the Lakeview Restaurant at Dundas and Ossington, having a joint retail space and eatery is a...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Capital Espresso, Blondie’s café spinoff that’s come into its own (literally)
When Blondie’s opened at 1378 Queen Street West, it was the only high-end coffee shop on Parkdale’s main drag. There was a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Churchill, the latest lo-fi bar on “destination” Dundas West
Remember West Queen West before it was a zoo? The folks at Churchill, Little Portugal’s newest bar, sure do. The owners of the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bar Salumi, an aperitif bar by the owners of Local Kitchen
Inside Queen West’s new Bar Salumi —under hanging Berkshire prosciutto, garlands of hot peppers and a wild boar’s...
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RIP: Arthur Carman (1925-2010), the legendary restaurateur of Alexander Street
Arthur Carman, the renowned proprietor of Carman’s Dining Club, near Maple Leaf Gardens, passed away at his home Tuesday. He was...
Food & Drink
Showdown at the Boardwalk Café: Tuggs owner gets an earful from local candidate
There are many reasons readers might be familiar with Sandra Bussin , councillor for Beaches–East York. Some may remember the...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 13 new cafés: board games, Bohème and a resurrected waffle house
These days, the arrival of a new indie café on Queen West or in Leslieville is about as novel as a Gap opening in a mall, which...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Stirling Room, the Distillery District’s first and only nightclub
There are no ghosts in one of the buildings at the old Gooderham and Worts Distillery, at least not according to entrepreneur...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Snakes and Lattes, the Annex’s clever new board games café
Not since the opening of Sam James have we seen so many re-tweets and wall postings about a new café. But it’s not the coffee...
Food & Drink
War on fun: New zoning bylaw prohibits restaurants and bars located south of Bloor from having back patios
Think the one-year ban on bars and restaurants on Ossington was strict? This week, a new zoning bylaw quietly went into effect; it...
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Food & Drink
Full Throttle: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Parts and Labour
The Parkdale it spot is a raucous hybrid of fine dining and indie cheek. It’s loud, stylish and double-dares you to eat fried...
Food & Drink
Salad King restored to throne; Ryerson students look forward to eating again
Put down the fried butter , because this is the greatest food news we’ve received all week. Salad King, the cheap Thai...
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Introducing: Drift Bar, Bloor and Dufferin’s affordable new hangout
Bloordale? Dufferin Grove? Blandsdowne? Dovercourt Park? The local boundaries may be in dispute, but the area is on the rise. Two...
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Shopping
Best of the City 2010: Toronto’s top shopping
Men’s madras shirt Jonathan and Olivia 49 Ossington Ave., 416-849-5956 Madras is the hot new plaid, in light organic cotton and...
Food & Drink
The Dundas West Guide: our 21 favourite places between Ossington and Lansdowne
The strip of Dundas West between Ossington and Lansdowne has not been immune to the wild gentrification going on directly south of...
City News
Toronto MP Joe Volpe proposes new rights for shopkeepers, including bondage
One of the larger controversies in Chinatown and Kensington Market over the past year has been the case of David Chen, who is...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Yuzu
At $31, this artful sushi platter is equal parts beautiful, original and affordable The place: Tucked away in the northeast corner...
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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...
Food & Drink
The Toronto Temperance Society: College Street’s “secret” speakeasy
There may be no decoy phone booth in the vein of New York’s secret bar, Please Don’t Tell , but a door on College Street...
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Bubble Trouble
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to...
Food & Drink
Buddha Dog gets put down
Amidst all the G20 brouhaha, it was easy to forget that one Roncesvalles’s more creative fooderies, Buddha Dog , is calling it...
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Bill could end automatic tipping in restaurants
Restaurants may have to cross out the “20 per cent gratuity will be added to parties of six or more” line on their menus if a...
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Just Opened: Beast. Scott and Rachelle Vivian take over the Amuse-Bouche space
“I don’t dislike vegetarians, but my style of cooking is heavy on meat,” says chef Scott Vivian . It’s more of a warning...
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Salt Wine Bar finally set to open on Ossington
The Saint is the only mystery resto left on Ossington. The much-anticipated Salt Wine Bar, which has been tantalizingly papered up...
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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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