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Food & Drink
Jolt of caffeine: 13 new independent cafés open in Toronto
While McDonald’s , Tim Hortons and Starbucks duke it out across North America in their giveaway coffee war, a new batch of...
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The new Canadiana (with no maple leaf in sight)
The Drake General Store can barely keep its Hudson’s Bay blankets and Mountie-themed cocktail napkins in stock. And these...
Shopping
Sales roundup: Designer denim sale, 20 per cent off at Stylegarage, save up to 70 per cent at Preloved
FASHION BEANSPROUT Before sending the tykes off to camp, check out this sale at the kiddie outfitter Beansprout. Bathing...
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Sales roundup: Designer sales at Holt Renfrew, Carte Blanche, Delphic and Buckler
FASHION 889 YONGE The retail portion of this holistic spa-yoga studio is having a “secret sale”: mention those two words at...
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Food & Drink
New York’s not in the house: Queen West’s latest bar named after owner’s cat
West Queen West seems less like hip strip and more like a series of failed, shuttered bars of late. Cock and Tail , The Kitchen...
Food & Drink
Name that Saloon: West Queen West gets a new bar by the Harbord Room boys
In a powerhouse collaboration to rival The Saint’s roster, the Harbord Room ’s owner (David Mitton, also of Czehoski ), chef...
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Sales and events roundup: Holt Renfrew designer sale, Greta Constantine trunk show, Miss Rowe customization event
FASHION AND BEAUTY Corbo Studio Score between 20 and 40 per cent off spring merchandise. Also, check out the new summer...
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Style
Michael Mercanti is making edgy jewellery for men
Jewellery designer Michael Mercanti parties until 3 a.m. most nights ( The Social and Amber are favourites), but he calls it...
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Huge sale at Carte Blanche this weekend
Notice of this mega sale at Queen West boutique Carte Blanche hit our inbox after posting the weekly sales roundup yesterday. See...
Food & Drink
Ossington residents split on licensing ban
Forget the war on the car—a growing contingent of west-end residents is gearing up for a war on the bar. On Tuesday, city...
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Food & Drink
Where to eat near BMO Field
Heading to the Toronto Football Club game next Saturday? Keep in mind that outside food and drinks are not allowed at BMO...
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This stool adds bang for a wallet-conscious buck
Fashioned after a traditional Chinese garden stool, this reproduction from Queen West’s Jalan is a sophisticated update. Ceramic...
Food & Drink
Elementary students declare The Drake best restaurant on Queen West
The intrepid Parkdale Pumas—public schoolers turned restaurant critics for the performance art project Eat the Street —have...
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Where to find some of the best shoes in town
Tracking down fabulous original footwear on Queen West hasn’t always been an easy task. Chain retailers have squeezed out many...
Food & Drink
Rosewater’s former chef, Paul Boehmer, jumps on the Ossington bandwagon with his new restaurant
How much more can Ossington take? A lot, it seems. The avenue’s seemingly endless gentrification will take another step this...
Food & Drink
Where to eat: Mother’s Day brunch 2009
Mother’s Day is that one special Sunday when sons and daughters take their beloved parent to a lovely restaurant in the hope...
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Style
GreenShag duo tell us what men should be wearing to interviews
GreenShag, the bespoke menswear clothier known for its hockey rink cufflinks, opened a storefront on Queen West last summer. Run...
Food & Drink
Kid critics are on to something at Oddfellows
Saturday night at Oddfellows looked like a feast scene out of My Big Fat Greek Wedding . Kids from the nearby Parkdale Public...
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The sweetest thing: Where to get dessert late
Toronto sometimes seems short on late-night noshables, but some of the city’s restaurants serve dessert well into the wee...
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Splendido changes ownership but stays in the “family”
Splendido is changing hands. The star-powered duo that revived the powerhouse Harbord Street restaurant—proprietor Yannick...
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What’s become of Coca?
Last night, we noticed that the windows of the trendy tapas bar Coca had been papered over. Though it was open on Friday, its...
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Toronto’s hidden brunch gems
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Guess who’s coming to dinner: Queen West restaurants are under siege by child critics
Continuing its “performance art that doesn’t suck” mandate, activist group Mammalian Diving Reflex is teaming up again with...
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The New York Times nails The Drake and The Gladstone
The New York Times 's style magazine, T, pays homage to West Queen West with a high-praise profile of the Drake and Gladstone...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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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
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