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Food & Drink
Three restaurant expansions offer some optimism for Toronto’s restaurant industry
After two years of restaurant death watches, it seems like 2010 is going to be a time of cautious expansion in Toronto's...
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Food & Drink
A peek inside Parts and Labour, a new Parkdale restaurant that unites owners of The Social, Oddfellows and Castor Design
First Cowbell , then Local Kitchen , and now this. With the arrival of Parts and Labour, a hardware store transformed into a...
Style
Toronto men get lift from high heels
High heels for men are no longer solely within the realm of drag queens. Today the Star declares them the must-have accessory for...
Style
Here’s The Situation: Jersey Shore comes to Toronto to find models for an upcoming photo shoot
Get those poufs and liquid tanners ready, because The Situation is in Hogtown, and he’s looking for some high-class...
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Style
New ad doubles as fashion mag dumping ground
The war on thin models is playing out on the streets of Toronto. A new streetcar shelter ad from NEDIC, the National Eating...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: El Almacen brings authentic yerba mate to Queen Street West
Along the still-evolving stretch of West Queen West between Dovercourt and Ossington, Silvio and Estela Rodriguez have quietly...
Food & Drink
The Rosebud up for grabs at $95K
Chef Rod Bowers is hoping to sell his Queen West restaurant The Rosebud by March 1—four days before his wife is due to give...
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Food & Drink
Joe Pantalone swoops in to limit west-end nightlife—again
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Toronto’s would-be mayor Joe Pantalone is coming down hard on one of the city’s most...
Food & Drink
Grease fire at Korean Grill House seems more inevitable than tragic
A small fire broke out late Monday afternoon at the Korean Grill House, the restaurant at Queen West and McCaul where diners are...
Style
Thirty-four Toronto stores that didn’t make it through 2009
Last year was for Toronto store owners what recent seasons have been like for the Blue Jays: difficult to endure and full of...
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Style
The best shopping on the Mount Pleasant strip
The Mount Pleasant strip isn’t exactly the next hot ’hood or the new Queen West or the developer district du jour. No, Mount...
Style
Shoppers Drug Mart will open at Queen and John
Last week, Urban Planet closed the doors on its massive store at 262 Queen Street West (the same building that once housed...
Style
Love of Mine Boutique improves Queen West’s accessories offerings
After working as a buyer for a local jewellery company for 10 years, Anna Damelin, who recently opened Love of Mine on Queen...
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Food & Drink
Queen West fixture the Cameron House is up for sale
The Cameron House, the bar of all trades near Queen and Spadina, is up for sale. The rather spare listing woos potential buyers by...
Food & Drink
Study of Ossington hip strip is bad news for new restaurant owners and patio lovers across Toronto
When Toronto’s most notorious fuddy-duddy, Joe Pantalone, championed last May’s ban on new licences along lower Ossington, the...
Food & Drink
Nadège Patisserie sends its desserts down the catwalk
Nadège Patisserie continues to find original ways of flogging pastries to Torontonians. Last week, the Queen West shop held a...
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Style
Summer of the bike: eight cyclists who ride in style
Remember those “I survived Toronto” T-shirts from summer 2003? The checklist on them read: SARS, West Nile, Mad Cow, SARS...
Shopping
Sales roundup: 80 per cent off designer eyewear, sample sale at Stylegarage, bridal warehouse sale
EVENTS BEYOND THE SPA OPENING Guests will be treated to champagne, wine, nibbles and free treatments (a mini-facial or...
Culture
Whip It good: Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page at Tattoo Rock Parlour
Roller derby chicks whirled around a TTC streetcar outside Tattoo Rock Parlour on Queen West on Sunday, giving the red carpet...
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Shopping
Sales roundup: 50 per cent off at Jacflash, 20 per cent off at Uncle Otis, 20 per cent off sofas at Restoration Hardware
FASHION BEAN SPROUT Don’t panic, but the kids' boutique is having a pre-season snowsuit sale (emphasis on the...
Style
We hit up Coco Rocha at the Holt Renfrew fash bash
Holt Renfrew took their annual gala, always the festival’s most fashionable bash, to new heights last night—the very top of...
Culture
In lieu of Megan Fox, a rock star shows up at Cheval
Megan Fox’ s expected arrival at Cheval last night was kept on the down low, as eTalk was the only other reporting team at the...
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Just Opened: West Salon and Spa puts a pretty face on Queen West
Sandwiched neatly between Brooklynn Bar and The Beaver , the recently opened West Salon and Spa is a bit out of place among the...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Nadège Patisserie
Back in 2008, a for lease sign went up in the window of Trinity Bellwoods’ Art Photo Studio, making some West Queen Westers a...
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’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
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!”
Just Listed
Just Listed
For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
Just Listed
For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment