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Salad King confirms grand reopening date (for real this time)
We’ve just received the news that Salad King will be ready to serve its first bowl of golden curry on Tuesday, February 22, with...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Gabardine, a neighbourhood gastropub in the middle of the financial district
For over a decade, Katherine Rodrigues and Alison Mackenna worked in many of Toronto’s busiest Bay Street...
Food & Drink
CN Tower loses highest restaurant record; still has highest wine cellar
In 2007, the CN Tower was robbed of its record as the world’s tallest free-standing structure by Dubai’s monolith, the Burj...
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Introducing: Inigo, a Queen West churrasqueira, takes over Igor Kenk’s old space
While Dundas West is in the midst of a carnivorous craze with a serious emphasis on the pig (we’re looking at you, Porchetta and...
Food & Drink
Susur tweets that Lee Lounge to open soon
Like every chef with a new venture and a pulse, Susur Lee has taken to Twitter to drum up buzz for his new restaurant, Lee Lounge...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Dynasty Chinese Cuisine, the downtown dim sum staple reborn
Last fall saw the quiet shuttering of a couple of downtown dim sum giants: Bright Pearl in Chinatown and Dynasty Chinese Cuisine...
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A peek inside the construction of Salad King’s new digs
Just days after a six-alarm blaze tore through the remains of Salad King’ s old Gould Street home, we visit the restaurant’s...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: grilled octopus that almost convinced us it isn’t January
A trip to Elm Street's Adega is the perfect way to remain in denial that spring is still months away. The Portuguese...
Food & Drink
Frisky Business: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Mark McEwan’s Fabbrica
Bling king Mark McEwan has abandoned his usual opulence with Fabbrica. It’s loud, lusty and the one thing elite chefs tend to...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the handmade pasta at Osteria Ciceri e Tria
One of downtown’s most popular lunch destinations, this Victoria Street restaurant buzzes with energy as friendly wait staff...
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Introducing: E11even, MLSE’s attempt at fine dining
MLSE’s Maple Leaf Square follow-up to Real Sports Bar and Grill is E11even, an unpretentious spot also in Maple Leaf Square...
Style
British model Agyness Deyn recommends Annex restaurant
It girl and British model Agyness Deyn threw a party on Monday night to fête her just-launched Web site, Naag . Known for her...
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Culture
Paul Giamatti Oscar buzz circulates over brunch
It was hard to tell who came for the networking, who came to hear Stomp the Yard director Robert Adetuyi , and who just came for...
Culture
Are the doomsayers right? Is it the end for Yorkville as TIFF epicentre?
With the Bell Lightbox TIFF headquarters at King and John finished, doomsayers have begun predicting the demise of Yorkville as...
Food & Drink
Go now: Ossington’s Salt Wine Bar could soon be closed for licence infractions
Salt Wine Bar, a small, excellent new tapas place on Ossington Avenue, might not survive its first month in business, after a...
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Wanted: German cannibal restaurant seeks pound of (human) flesh
A soon-to-open restaurant in Berlin (home of all things weird and Hostel -ish) is taking recipe advice from Hannibal...
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The best way to get cheap coffee at Manic, I Deal, Crema and more
While the reasons to avoid corporate coffee shops are abundantly clear to any aficionado, there is now a new enticement to explore...
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New York Times picks the “coolest” places in Toronto
With the film festival mere weeks away, Toronto is the focus of a recent T Magazine style map, which names a dozen of the...
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Ten signs of the death of the Entertainment District
The condo invasion is old news to all of Toronto. Except clubland. The point of packing dozens of nightclubs into one area was to...
City News
Pretty woman walking down the street: Julia Roberts is in Toronto
Julia Roberts is in Toronto shooting Jesus Henry Christ, a film she's producing starring Michael Sheen and Toni Collette, and of...
Food & Drink
Pride: a complete list of bars serving until 4 a.m.
Of all the fun associated with Pride—the parade, the wild outfits, the half-naked people littering the streets—call us...
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Today in Toronto: G20, Pride, Toronto Jazz Festival
G20: The summit we've all been waiting for (and dreading) has begun. Follow our coverage >> Pride: Expanding to take over ever...
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How the Eaton Centre is spending its $120 million in make-over money
Last week, when we heard that the Eaton Centre was about to undergo a $120-million reno (its first since the late '70s), we...
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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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