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Q&A: @ChefGrantSoto, the social-media satirist who’s become the TMZ of Toronto restaurants
"I could say the things that they couldn’t say"
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Toronto Life’s Best New Restaurants 2017 event is on March 21, and tickets are on sale now
Grab them while they last
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Toronto’s patio fee “nightmare” reminds us just how vital outdoor seating is—and not just for happy hour
"Myself and friends in the industry are talking about packing it in and moving up north"
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This new Peruvian pop-up serves food that looks unreal, and tastes just as good
Chef Elias Salazar’s flavours deliver on the intensity of his food photos.
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What’s on the menu at Lasa, a casual Filipino follow-up to Lamesa on St. Clair West
Owner Les Sabilano and chef Daniel Cancino want to bring Filipino food to a wider audience.
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Good cooks are quitting the kitchen, and that’s bad news for your favourite restaurant
Experienced cooks are tired of being paid like the kid who shovels the driveway
Life
The hardest job I ever had was working at a downtown bistro, and that was before the chef got violent
"I soon realized that was why I still had a job. I’d become the chef’s punching bag"
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Where to Eat 2015: our ranking of Toronto’s 10 best—actually, make that 20 best—new restaurants
It’s official: Toronto has too many great restaurants. Trying to keep track of every new omakase sushi savant, unmarked bar run...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #1, Buca Yorkville
I’ve been daydreaming about Rob Gentile. I’m in love with his ricotta gnocchi, which he rolls out by hand at Buca...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #2, Dandylion
Jay Carter studied at the best cooking school in town: Susur Lee’s kitchen. He worked as the master’s sous-chef for four...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #3, Yasu
There are only 13 seats in this narrow, gleaming white room: 11 at the counter, plus a table for two by the window. Couples on...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #4, DaiLo
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #5, Boralia
I wasn’t sure what to make of Boralia—yet another trendy restaurant on Ossington. The place, named after a moniker floated for...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #6, Byblos
The wonder of Charles Khabouth isn’t that he runs so many nightclubs and restaurants, and opens a new spot nearly every...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #7, Flor de Sal
Anyone nostalgic for the Corner House’s creaky, sunflower-yellow rooms and old-fashioned gastronomy is in for a shock. Cristina...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #8, Bar Fancy
The name is wink-wink. There are no frilly drinks on offer—only bar rail, draft and decent wines for $11 a glass. Grandma-style...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #9, Nana
Thai empires are at war. Two years ago, Monte Wan, who owns the line-up-for-hours Adelaide West phenomenon Khao San Road, parted...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #10, Rasa
Mondays used to be dull before Adrian Niman came along. He and his business partner, Brent McClenahan, run a trendy catering...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #11, Los Colibris
Elia Herrera is an anomaly: a real-deal chef running a Mexican restaurant that’s button-down sophisticated, nary a hipster...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #12, Branca
An Argentine restaurant is only as good as its meat. Some of the city’s finest is slow-roasted, braised and charred to...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #13, Yunaghi
When J. P. Challet moved Ici Bistro to the Windsor Arms, Yurika Ara and Yasuko Miyata took over the premises and opened...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #14, Mr. Flamingo
When I’ve had my fill of the fried chicken at Bar Fancy, I hightail it a couple of blocks north to this other cool new...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #15, Colette
Last year, my top restaurant was The Chase, the decadent downtown aerie that brought glitz back to the core. The owners, Steven...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #16, Luckee
Susur Lee spent his entire career running from traditional Chinese food, determined to be worshipped as a master of...
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The Ontario Resort and Getaway Guide 2026
Whether you’re looking for a weekend getaway or a full family adventure, our collection of Ontario’s top resorts and destinations has you covered
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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