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Year in Review: all of 2012’s Weekly Lunch Picks, ranked by price
One year, so many delicious lunches. Once again, faced with the impossibility of choosing our favourite midday dining option of...
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Food & Drink
Year in Review: all 161 new restaurants, bars, food shops and food trucks we covered in 2012
When historians of Toronto’s food scene (should they ever exist) look back on 2012, they’ll wonder how so many new...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Karelia Kitchen, Bloordale’s new Scandinavian café
From the late ’60s until the ’80s, Karelia was an influential Scandinavian design store in Toronto run by Janis Kravis. Now...
Food & Drink
The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
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Vegan stalwart Fressen calls it quits
Queen West’s upscale vegan eatery Fressen announced on Facebook and Twitter that it will be closing its doors for good at the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Smoke BBQ House, Harbord’s new no-nonsense barbecue joint
Harbord’s new Smoke BBQ House is the latest restaurant in Toronto dedicated to straightforward southern barbecue. Unlike places...
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Maurizio Verga is leaving his post as F’Amelia’s head chef
In April, we awarded Cabbagetown’s F’Amelia the seventh spot in our list of the year’s best new restaurants. Now Maurizio...
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Introducing: Kingyo Toronto, the Cabbagetown outpost of Vancouver’s celebrated izakaya
Kingyo is the latest Japanese restaurant to make the move from Vancouver to Toronto, following the success of Guu, Guu...
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Introducing: The Artisan Baker, a new bakery café at Yonge and St. Clair
The Artisan Baker, a new bakery café at Yonge and St. Clair, opened with little fanfare last week right beside the space left...
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Review: Rose and Sons, Anthony Rose’s diminutive new diner
Dinner at the minuscule new diner from Anthony Rose, the ex-chef of the Drake Hotel, is good, chaotic fun. LCD Soundsystem thrums...
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Jazz Bistro set to take over the old Top o’ The Senator space
Come February, Toronto’s long-defunct Top O’ The Senator space will once again be filled with jazz and other live music, six...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at North 44°, Enoteca Sociale and Richmond Station
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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Introducing: Rose and Sons, the new Annex diner from Anthony Rose
The hotly anticipated Rose and Sons opened earlier this month where the beloved neighbourhood institution People’s Foods once...
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Chantecler swaps out à-la-carte service for tasting menus, expands Lettuce Sundays
Changes are afoot at Chantecler, the tiny Parkdale restaurant that opened earlier this year touting “progressive Canadian...
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Trend we Love: Philly cheese steak, spotted in low- and middlebrow incarnations
Those who’ve grown weary of sanctimonious locavorism will welcome the sudden ubiquity of the Philly cheese steak on Toronto...
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Toronto Winterlicious 2013 restaurants are out—and the list grew once again (it even includes Splendido)
It’s nearly that time of year again: earlier today, Toronto Special Events released the list of Toronto Winterlicious 2013...
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Introducing: OddSeoul, the new Ossington Korean restaurant from the brothers behind Swish by Han
Hot on the heels of Rock Lobster’ s opening, brothers Leemo and Leeto Han have launched Ossington’s newest...
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Introducing: Sabai Sabai, a new Northern Thai restaurant and bar on Church
Sabai Sabai is a new Thai spot just south of Ryerson from first-time restaurateurs Jason Jiang and Seng Luong, who’ve partnered...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the splurge-worthy December prix fixe at Splendido
Every year, Splendido’ s chef Victor Barry and manager Carlo Catallo get into the holiday spirit by opening their doors for that...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for December 10 to December 16
Monday, December 10 Tuesday, December 11 Wednesday, December 12 Thursday, December 13 Friday, December 14 Saturday, December 15...
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Introducing: Rock Lobster, the new Ossington incarnation of the popular pop-up restaurant
Recently there’s been a slew of Toronto Underground Market vendors graduating to permanent operations. First La Carnita opened...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Skin and Bones, Glas Wine Bar and Bestellen
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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Queen West’s Cajú to pack it in after 10 years
Brazilian cuisine has never been well represented in Toronto, and soon it will become even less so. After 10 years on Queen...
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Introducing: Archive, a casual new wine bar on Dundas West
Unlike the tony wine bars of yore, which targeted the suits-and-heels crowd, Archive, which opened last month, is situated on the...
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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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