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Restaurant Reviews
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Review: El Catrin brings Mexican-for-the-masses to the Distillery District
El Catrin Destileria ★½ 18 Tank House Ln., 416-203-2121 Chef Olivier Le Calvez moved from Mexico City to Toronto to oversee...
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Review: Hudson Kitchen, the Dundas West restaurant that hosted TIFF’s most paparazzied parties
Hudson Kitchen ★ 800 Dundas St. W., 416-644-8839 Before it even opened, the new restaurant at Dundas and Palmerston was hosting...
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Review: Beryl’s Pepper Pot brings Jamaican home cooking to Queen East
Beryl’s Pepper Pot ★ 1610 Queen St. E., 647-748-1400 The popular Ajax restaurant has opened a new location on a...
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Review: Delica Kitchen, the new Leslieville location of the gourmet lunch counter
Delica Kitchen ★½ 913 Queen St. E., 416-546-5408 Last summer, Devin Connell closed her Queen East chicken-and-waffles...
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Review: Brussels Bistro serves excellent French food in a cozy Victorian house in The Beach
Brussels Bistro ★½ 1975 Queen St. E., Unit A, 416-694-0004 Chef Roger Stefan Wils’ Belgian bistro is perfectly suited to the...
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Review: Dundas Park Kitchen brings good, old-fashioned home cooking to Roncy
Dundas Park Kitchen ★½ 2066 Dundas St. W., 647-351-4793 Walking into this new Roncesvalles sandwich shop feels like sneaking...
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Review: Me and Mine makes comfort food chic on the College West strip
Me and Mine ★½ 1144 College St., 416-535-5858 Chef-owners Joel MacMillan and Melissa da Silva designed their restaurant on a...
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Review: Home of the Brave, the retro diner on King West from the owners of La Carnita
Home of the Brave ★½ 589 King St. W., 416-366-2736 Andrew Richmond and Jonathan Hamilton, the kitsch-happy team behind La...
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Review: classic European comfort food at Bistro 896 on Queen East
Bistro 896 ★★ 896 Queen St. E., 416-625-2653 The new restaurant east of Jimmie Simpson Park was deserted on a recent Thursday...
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Review: Ryus Noodle Bar, an under-the-radar destination for highly slurpable ramen
Ryus Noodle Bar ★ 33 Baldwin St., 647-344-9306 The ramen-slurping masses haven’t yet discovered Ryus, a new noodle house just...
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Review: Trinity Taverna brings upmarket Greek food to the Beach
Trinity Taverna ★½ 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E., 416-698-3456 At this revamped Greek palace on the boardwalk, a seafood counter...
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Review: former Hawthorne chef Eric Wood delivers at The Beverley Hotel
The Beverley Hotel ★★ 335 Queen St. W. , 416-493-2786 The restaurant at the new Beverley Hotel looks, at a glance, just like...
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Review: absinthe, oysters and old-timey cocktails at Geraldine in Parkdale
Geraldine ★½ 1564 Queen St. W., 647-352-8827 The trendy fascination with everything heirloom reaches its apotheosis at this...
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Review: Rock Lobster’s delightfully chaotic Queen West outpost
Rock Lobster ★½ 538 Queen St. W., 416-203-6623 Have an opinion on Rock Lobster? Add your review here »
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Review: Middle Eastern restaurant Tabülé’s chic new Riverdale outpost
Tabülé ★★ 810 Queen St. E., 416-465-2500 Have an opinion on Tabülé? Add your review here »
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Review: charcuterie and Bavarian beer at Das Gasthaus on the Danforth
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Review: handmade pasta and flash-baked Neapolitan pies at Sagra in the Junction
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Review: Roux serves comforting Creole standards to Junction regulars
Roux ★½ 2790 Dundas St. W., 647-343-3600 Last summer, the owners of the Junction Eatery transformed their diner into a polished...
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Review: photogenic feats and flavour flops at Bero in Leslieville
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Review: Seven Lives, a bustling takeout taqueria in Kensington Market
Seven Lives ★ 69 Kensington Ave., @SevenLivesTO Just when we thought Toronto had reached the maximum municipal quota of...
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Review: Sud Forno, a quaint Italian bakery from the owners of Terroni
Sud Forno 716 Queen St. W., 416-504-7667 The new bakery from the owners of Terroni, two storefronts east of the flagship...
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Review: Colombian snacks and punchy cocktails at Valdez on King West
Valdez ★ 606 King St. W., 416-363-8388 Steve Gonzalez, the former chef de cuisine at Origin and the class clown of Top Chef...
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Review: Ardor Bistro brings Peruvian ceviche and pisco cocktails to the Ossington strip
Ardor Bistro ★★ 59 Ossington Ave., 647-351-5100
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Review: slow-smoked Southern barbecue at Marky and Sparky’s in the Junction
Marky and Sparky's ★½ 520 Annette St., 647-748-4227 The new 10-seater smokehouse at Annette and Runnymede injects a much-needed...
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Best New Restaurants
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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
Big Stories
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Sex worker and
Anora
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
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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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