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Best New Restaurants 2015: #17, America
The view from the surrounding office towers into this 31st-floor restaurant in the Trump Hotel must be distracting. At...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #18, Fat Pasha
Somehow, against all odds, chopped liver is the hippest thing around, in no small measure because of Anthony Rose, the chef behind...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #19, Montecito
The movie director Ivan Reitman owns a condo in the Festival Tower and wanted somewhere nice to eat, so he flew up his favourite...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #20, Patois
I wouldn’t have thought it wise to mess with chow mein until I had Craig Wong’s bastardized version with churrasco-roasted...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is it okay to demand weird things from restaurant servers?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently went to the Octagon steak house with a friend, who asked that her rib-eye be cooked in milk and...
Food & Drink
Coming Soon: Fat Pasha, a Middle Eastern restaurant from Rose and Sons chef Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose, the chef and co-owner of Rose and Sons and Big Crow, is opening yet another restaurant on Dupont Avenue. Fat...
City News
Year in Review: what you cared about in 2013 (or, the 50 most-read stories of the year)
2013 was a hell of a year. Looking through our list of the most popular 50 articles Toronto Life 's website has published since...
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Crack burgers, meltdown sandwiches and other menu items inspired by the mayor
The silver lining, perhaps, to Toronto’s seedy mayoral scandal: the outpouring of inventive—or at least amusing—creative...
City News
Best of the City: our indispensable list of all that’s excellent in 2013
City hall is a circus, our roads are chronically clogged and the Stanley Cup continues to elude us, but our economy is booming...
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Editor’s Letter (August 2013): the party pooping Parkdale restaurant moratorium
Parkdale on a hot summer night is an exceedingly fun place to be. If you’re lucky enough to snag a seat at Grand Electric, the...
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Burger’s Priest at Queen and Spadina is now open
The third location of the owner Shant Mardirosian’ s crazy popular griddle-smashed burger chain opened its doors on Saturday to...
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Matt Blondin is no longer at Momofuku Daishō
Matt Blondin, the ambitious Toronto chef that came up through Colborne Lane’ s modernist kitchen before opening Acadia in...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at One, Auberge du Pommier and Pizzeria Libretto
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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La Société introduces special menus from the city’s style set
The buzzy Bloor Street bistro wants you to eat just like Toronto’s fashion elite. Charles Khabouth’ s Yorkville restaurant is...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Scaramouche, Buonanotte and Bar Isabel
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Beloved taco spot Agave y Aguacate is back in Baldwin Village
Mexican-born chef Francisco Alejandri opened a Kensington Market taco stand in 2011, ahead of the current craze. With only a...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Yours Truly, Lee and Bannock
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I confront parents who bring a wailing newborn to an upscale restaurant?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I went to Toca at the Ritz-Carlton for our anniversary dinner. Around 9 p.m., a newborn-toting...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Ruby Watchco, F’Amelia and Marben
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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The Binge List: top 20 Toronto sandwiches
Not so long ago, Toronto was a white-bread city. That was before chefs started baking Danish rye, sous-viding bacon and otherwise...
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Must-try: World-renowned chef Ferran Adrià’s Estrella Damm Inedit lager at Patria
In 2010, Ferran Adrià, the experimental Spanish chef who invented food foam and fielded a million requests for reservations every...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Playa Cabana, North 44° and Delux
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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The Dish Power Rankings: the Jack Bauer edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. Bar Isabel...
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Nuit and Jeff Regular are opening another new Thai restaurant downtown
Three months after breaking ties with Khao San Road, Nuit and Jeff Regular are heading back to the Entertainment District district...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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