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Review: Bay Street’s Via Vai is the most gorgeous space to enjoy a slice (and the pizza’s pretty great, too)
Via Vai ★★ 832 Bay St., 416-362-0123 As Toronto’s artisanal pizza craze enters its second decade, the debate over which of...
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Review: Kanpai, Cabbagetown’s new Taiwanese snack bar, is more of a rowdy pit stop than a dining destination
Kanpai ★ 252 Carlton St., 416-968-6888 Cabbagetown’s new snack bar is more of a rowdy pit stop than a dining destination: pop...
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Review: Annette Food Market brings garlicky goodness and gluttonous wood-fired pies to the Junction
Annette Food Market ★★ 240 Annette St., 647-792-6963 Two thousand Junction–High Park residents signed a petition to help the...
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Review: Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren’s College Street tapas bar, is another standout
Bar Raval ★★★ 505 College St. Grant van Gameren’s claim to greatness is sweating the small details. At Bar Isabel, his...
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Concession Road brings Gallic goodness to St. Clair West
Concession Road ★★½ 760 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-658-0460 The latest arrival on St. Clair West is a French bistro disguised as...
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Review: Furlough, BarChef’s sister spot, brings more cocktail nerdery to Queen West
Furlough ★★★½ 924 Queen St. W. , 647-348-2525 The new bar-bistro on Queen West, in the space formerly occupied by Ursa, is...
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Review: NAO brings swank back to Yorkville and steak so good it doesn’t need sauce
NAO ★★★ 90 Avenue Rd. , 416-367-4141 The glitzy reno of this Victorian, for most of the last 20 years home to the quaint...
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Review: At King West’s Wilbur Mexicana, grilled veggies are the way to go
Wilbur Mexicana ★ 552 King St. W., 416-792-1878 Somewhere on the spectrum between Mexican fast food chains and hipster taco...
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Review: Parlor Foods and Co. serves Canadiana (and oddly delicious cheddar ice cream) on King West
Parlor Foods and Co. ★ 333 King St. W., 416-596-0004 Barnboard and burlap give Parlor a cottagey feel. On the menu are the...
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Review: Nana serves fiery Thai food stall dishes to Queen West heat-seekers
Nana ★★ 785 Queen St. W., 647-352-5773 Of the many new wave Thai places to open in the last year, this diminutive spot, run by...
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Review: Città makes for a fun CityPlace hangout, but don’t expect top-notch Italian
Città ★ 92 Fort York Blvd., 416-623-9662 The new casual Italian restaurant in CityPlace’s condo village is the latest project...
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Review: Ovest serves delicate, rustic Italian dishes to the King West crowd
Ovest ★½ 788 King St. W., 416-214-6161 The rustic-meets-industrial decor of this new, massive King West spot will be familiar...
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Review: Bar Fancy, Jonathan Poon’s new snack bar on Queen West, is an easy win
Bar Fancy ★★ 1070 Queen St. W., 416-546-1416 With Chantecler, Jonathan Poon proved he could make an ambitious restaurant work...
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Review: Dandylion brings intricate, Scandinavian-influenced dishes to Queen West
Dandylion ★★½ 1198 Queen St. W., 647-464-9100 Jay Carter spent a decade cooking under Susur and two years as exec chef at...
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Review: Yunaghi, the Japanese bistro at Harbord and Manning, is unusual but rewarding
Yunaghi ★★½ 538 Manning Ave., 416-588-7862 Before opening this peculiar but ultimately rewarding Japanese bistro, the chef...
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Review: Nuit Social is a slice of civilized heaven on West Queen West
Nuit Social ★ 1168 Queen St. W., 647-350-6848 The strip of Queen West between Ossington and Dufferin has always needed a...
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Review: Mr. Flamingo has tons of cool cred (and pretty great food)
Mr. Flamingo ★★ 1265 Dundas St. W., 647-351-1100 The staff at the new 34-seat restaurant on the corner of Dundas West is a...
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Review: Nodo, the Junction’s new red-sauce restaurant, serves crowd-pleasing (if unrefined) classics
Nodo ★ 2885 Dundas St. W., 416-901-1559 Across from the Indie Ale House microbrewery and beside Cantina’s taco party, comes a...
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Review: The fusion cooking at Patois is bold, ambitious and strangely satisfying
Patois ★½ 794 Dundas St. W., 647-350-8999 The latest fusion to hit the Toronto dining scene is Asian-Caribbean, courtesy of...
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Review: Thoroughbred on Richmond Street West is an excellent post-work party spot
Thoroughbred ★★ 304 Richmond St. W., 416-551-9221 The DJ’s electro-indie-pop thrums and the well-crafted cocktails go down...
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Review: Leslieville’s Eastside Social may be the perfect neighbourhood local
Eastside Social ★★½ 1008 Queen St. E., 416-461-5663 The ideal neighbourhood local—not too crowded, not too...
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Review: Colette Grand Café is expensive, conservative and mostly good
Colette Grand Café ★½ 550 Wellington St. W., 647-348-7000 The new restaurant in the Thompson Hotel is ultra-polished and...
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Review: Mata serves good Brazilian bar snacks (and some of the best sliders in town)
Mata ★ 1690 Queen St. W., 647-691-0234 Felipe Faccioli, Tulio Lessa and Patrick Fraser, sharing chef duties, cannily opened...
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Review: Barsa Taberna’s multicultural tapas menu delivers some inspired dishes
Barsa Taberna ★★½ 26 Market St., 647-341-3642 Squint in this cavernous underground space late at night and you could be in a...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Save Me From My Screen: How smartphone addiction is ruining our lives
Despite the do-not-disturb settings, time-spent reminders and ritual purging of apps, we’re still hopelessly obsessed with our devices. Dispatches from the digital minimalist movement
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The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
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Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
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A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
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Sex worker and
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consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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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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The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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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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For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
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For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.
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For Sale: 1445 Islington Avenue
Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley