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Riverside
Food & Drink
A burger joint is coming to the Broadview Hotel
Archie’s will open later this spring
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Food & Drink
Where the Drake Hotel’s executive chef eats in Leslieville and Riverside
Daniel Hyam’s favourite spots for Cantonese cuisine, Thai food and apple fritters
Deep Dives
Where to Buy Next: Twelve Toronto neighbourhoods destined for big things
It takes an absurd amount of money and mettle to purchase real estate in this city. Why not stack the deck? Our comprehensive guide for property hunters and gawkers alike
Food & Drink
A shipping container serving Vietnamese food just popped up in a Riverside laneway
Grab a bowl of pork chop rice at Com Nuoc and take it up to the rooftop patio
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Food & Drink
Why this Toronto restaurateur is eliminating takeout orders and patio service
It has nothing to do with CaféTO fees or delivery app commissions
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
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
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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
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
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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
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Kaboom Chicken, including Toronto’s first ramen burger
Noodles = buns
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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...
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...
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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
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...
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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:...
Food & Drink
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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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
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
Big Stories
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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