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Review: Cellar Door brings the urban trattoria experience to Toronto’s outskirts
Cellar Door ★½ 3003 Lakeshore Blvd. W., 416-253-0303 Chef Robert Rubino brings the urban trattoria experience—original...
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Review: Los Colibris brings sophisticated Mexican cuisine to a touristy strip of King West
Los Colibris ★★★ 220 King St. W., 416-979-7717 If your relationship to Mexican food extends no further than taco joints run...
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Review: strong cocktails and excellent fusion food at Rasa in Harbord Village
Rasa ★★ 196 Robert St., 647-350-8221 The owners of Toronto’s Food Dudes catering, known for trendy comfort-fusion food, have...
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Review: Portland Variety is a low-key surprise on clubby King West
Portland Variety ★★½ 587 King St. W., 416-368-5151 This serene new tapas bar is a delightfully low-key surprise in the middle...
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Review: The Forth brings King West style to the souvlaki strip
The Forth ★★ 629 Danforth Ave., 416-465-2629 Former Brassaii chef Chris Kalisperas has opened a sexy supper club on the...
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Review: The Good Son has some impressive plates (and cheaper pizza than Terroni)
The Good Son ★½ 1096 Queen St. W., 416-551-0589 The old Nyood space on Queen has been stripped naked and given the twee...
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Review: Pain Perdu nails the bistro basics
Pain Perdu ★★ 3185 Yonge St., 416-488-0081 At his new north-end restaurant, a spinoff of the beloved Pain Perdu...
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Review: Ambitious menu but spotty execution at Farmer’s Daughter on Dupont
Farmer's Daughter ★½ 1588 Dupont St., 416-546-0626 Darcy MacDonell, the owner of the queue-drawing Farmhouse Tavern, has opened...
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Review: Peoples Eatery (mostly) lives up to the buzz
Peoples Eatery ★½ 307 Spadina Ave., 416-792-1784 The owners of 416 Snack Bar have replicated the bourbon-jacked buzz that made...
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Review: Blackbird Baking Co. brings heavenly baked goods to Kensington Market
Blackbird Baking Co. 172 Baldwin St., 416-546-2280 Inside a stripped-down Kensington Market shop, there’s alchemy at...
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Review: Yakitori Kintori, the latest ouptost of the Guu restaurant empire
Yakitori Kintori ★ 668 Bloor St. W., 416-551-7588 The latest outpost of James Kim’s ever-expanding Guu restaurant empire has...
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Review: East Thirty-Six is a moody downtown hideout with a serious kitchen
East Thirty-Six ★½ 36 Wellington St. E., 647-350-3636 Nearly a hundred years later, we’re still obsessed with everything...
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Review: Ramen Isshin’s decor isn’t great, but the house broth delivers supremely porky flavour
Ramen Isshin ★ 421 College St., 416-367-4013 The owners of Kingyo, the rollicking Cabbagetown izakaya, have opened a spinoff...
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Review: Small Town Food Co., a cozy Parkdale pub with carefully constructed comfort dishes
Small Town Food Co. ★★ 1263 Queen St. W., 416-538-7695 Queen West young’uns nibble on gourmet bar snacks and comfort food at...
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Review: Mad Mexican brings excellent tacos and tortas to Baby Point
Mad Mexican ★½ 383 Jane St., 416-907-5787 Chef José Hadad’s Mad Mexican salsas, bean dips, guacamole and tortilla chips...
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Review: Boots ‘n’ Bourbon brings the Wild West to Toronto’s east end
Boots ‘n’ Bourbon ★½ 725 Queen St. E., 647-348-0880 Matt Pettit, the entrepreneurial chef behind the Rock Lobster...
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Review: Agave y Aguacate serves excellent Mexican food in a refined new space
Agave y Aguacate ★★>½ 35 Baldwin St., 647-748-6448 Two years after closing his cultish Kensington Market food stall, chef...
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Review: The Carbon Bar serves some of the city’s best pork ribs in an awfully fancy room
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Review: Fonda Lola stands out from the Mexican pack with Aztec recipes and kombucha-spiked sangria
Fonda Lola ★ 942 Queen St. W., 647-706-9105 Chef Howard Dubrovsky cooks ancient Aztec recipes inherited from his aunt, a Mexican...
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Review: Reds Midtown hits flavour highs and lows at Yonge and Gerrard
Reds Midtown ★ 382 Yonge St., Unit 6, 416-598-3535
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Review: It’s All GRK serves upscale gyros and souvlaki on trendy Queen West
It’s All GRK ★½ 756 Queen St. W., 416-703-7888 Queen West’s new souvlaki shop takes an upscale approach to casual Greek...
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Review: Pukka brings modern Indian cuisine to St. Clair West’s restaurant row
Pukka ★½ 778 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-342-1906 The latest addition to St. Clair West’s burgeoning restaurant row blends...
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Review: La Cubana, the retro diner on Roncey, serves sophisticated Cuban snacks
La Cubana ★ 392 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-538-7500 Even on a rainy night, there’s a queue to get into La Cubana, the new...
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Review: Soos brings Malay street food and clever bar snacks to Ossington
Soos ★ 94 Ossington St., 416-901-7667 This new family-run spot mixes familiar Ossington cues—dangling Edison bulbs, sharing...
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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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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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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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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative