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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $1.5 million for a Riverside loft in an old factory with a view of the skyline
The 1,300-square-foot unit also comes with wood slat ceilings, exposed brick, polished concrete floors and sleek sliding doors
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at the Comrade, an old east-end favourite with brand-new owners (but the same burger)
The team from Wynona couldn't pass up this project
Food & Drink
Where the Food Network’s Baker Sisters go for biscuit sandwiches, birthday cake doughnuts and sourdough bread in the east end
Their go-to restaurants and bakeries in Leslieville and Riverside
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Est, Sean MacDonald’s fancy new tasting menu restaurant in Riverside
The former Hexagon chef has a place of his own
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Food & Drink
A peek at the Civic’s revamped menu, courtesy of a Fat Duck and Per Se alum
The Broadview Hotel eatery has had a menu makeover
Food & Drink
19 of the best restaurants on Toronto’s east side
Our recommendations for where to dine east of the Don
Food & Drink
The best new reasons to dine and drink in Toronto’s booming east end
Our latest, greatest excuses to feast in the east
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Kaboom Chicken, including Toronto’s first ramen burger
Noodles = buns
Food & Drink
Loka Snacks’ Dave Mottershall is Kickstarting a restaurant (and he’s looking for a west-end location)
Chef Dave Mottershall , who operates Loka Snacks out of Riverside's Hi-Lo Bar , has a goal: to open his own restaurant. But what...
Food & Drink
Table 17 is set to close next month
After seven years of service, Table 17 is closing. The popular Riverside restaurant will serve its last meals on July 11. Owner...
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Food & Drink
La Carnita’s Riverside taqueria is now abierto
La Carnita 's second location finally opened in Riverside Monday night, months after plans to settle in the Beach fell...
Real Estate News
The Chase: two sisters dive into the income-property game with a rowhouse in Riverside
The buyers: Thuyen Nguyen, the 24-year-old general manager of Pacific Junction Hotel, a Corktown bar, and her sister, Hoa...
Food & Drink
Tabülè opens a new eatery in Riverside
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Food & Drink
Review: trendy new Riverside restaurant for barbecue, craft beer and bourbon Aft
Aft ★½ 686 Queen St. E., 647-346-1541 Aft is Riverside’s most remorselessly trendy restaurant. Bricks are exposed, wood is...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Aft Kitchen and Bar, a new barbecue joint in Riverside
Name: Aft Kitchen and Bar Neighborhood: Riverside Contact info: 686 Queen St. East, 647-346-1541, aftbar.com, @aft_bar Owner: Paul...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Appetite, Riverside’s new gourmet food shop
Name: Appetite Neighborhood: Riverside Contact info: 722 Queen St. E, 416-850-8835, whetyourappetite.ca, @Appetite722 Owners:...
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Winterlicious 2013: Toronto Life’s two picks east of the DVP
Winterlicious and Summerlicious are never particularly kind to the east end of the city, but this year’s selection is worse than...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions