Real Estate News
Food & Drink
City News
Deep Dives
Culture
Style
Newsletters
Membership
Submit a Tip
Subscribe
Sign in
Sam James
Food & Drink
Sam James Coffee Bar makes dirty soda now
Because who doesn’t?
Advertisement
Food & Drink
20 of the best places to eat and drink in the Path
Our favourite places to eat and drink without going topside
Food & Drink
Where (and what) you should be eating in the PATH right now
Because it's too damn cold to go outside
Food & Drink
This Toronto baker makes cookies that look like everything from Drake to bowls of ramen
These biscuits are bonkers
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Indie coffee maestro Sam James sets up shop on the Ossington strip
After setting up cafés in some unexpected places across Toronto—first Harbord Street, next Koreatown, and then The...
Shopping
Toronto’s Best Dressed 2012: the city’s 25 most stylish people
Toronto is a good-looking town, with no shortage of beautiful people in beautiful clothes. But only a few are bona fide...
Food & Drink
Ever wonder why Tim Hortons coffee tastes like that? A behind-the-scenes tour of their roasting plant
We’re under no illusions that most Dish readers would rate Tim Hortons coffee up there with what one might expect from, say, a...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Introducing: Sam James Coffee Bar’s new underground outpost in the Path
Back in December, we told you about Sam James’ plans to launch a third location in that downtown warren of chain coffee...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Sam James on the leg up he’s gotten from the good folks at Starbucks
—Sam James, of Sam James Coffee Bar fame, musing on Metro Morning about the effect that coffee shop chains have on independent...
Food & Drink
Sam James to open up shop in the Path
In this season of giving, it’s only fitting that Toronto’s favourite coffee son, Sam James, would announce he’s taking pity...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
With news of price hikes at Starbucks, we called around to see what indie shops are charging for their coffee
On Tuesday, the Toronto Star reported that Starbucks had raised its prices for coffee and other beverages across the country by...
Food & Drink
Sam James to celebrate his coffee bar’s second anniversary this Sunday with free lattes for all
Toronto espresso hero Sam James is celebrating his tiny Harbord Street coffee bar's second anniversary this Sunday, when he’ll...
Food & Drink
The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
The rise of the indie coffee mini-empire
For Toronto coffee lovers, 2011 started in much the same way that 2010 finished: with further proof that the indie coffee craze...
Food & Drink
Foam craft: seven baristas show us their best latte art
Ten years ago, latte art was virtually unheard of in Toronto. Today, finding a rosetta, heart or tulip swirled into a latte is as...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Sense Appeal, a cafe with a “director of coffee extraction”
With an undeniable indie cafe explosion taking place, it's only a matter of time before Toronto’s coffee scene enters the realm...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Introducing: Sam James Coffee Pocket, a second location for a local espresso guru
When Sam James set up his eponymous coffee shop on Harbord last year, some were skeptical that a business could thrive in such a...
Food & Drink
Nine amazing kitchen gadgets from Toronto’s restaurant kitchens
We’re all for home-cooked meals and comfort food, but let’s face it: people go to restaurants to order stuff they can’t...
Food & Drink
The best way to get cheap coffee at Manic, I Deal, Crema and more
While the reasons to avoid corporate coffee shops are abundantly clear to any aficionado, there is now a new enticement to explore...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Free coffee! Sam James celebrates its birthday this weekend
It’s been a year since Sam James brought siphon coffee to the city, and the café is celebrating its first year with free java...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Beast. Scott and Rachelle Vivian take over the Amuse-Bouche space
“I don’t dislike vegetarians, but my style of cooking is heavy on meat,” says chef Scott Vivian . It’s more of a warning...
Food & Drink
Double latte, double standard: indie cafés slammed for being too popular
Every time a Toronto café becomes popular or thinks about expanding, its indie status is called into question. People are quick...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
BNN legitimizes McDonald’s–Tim Hortons coffee war in excruciatingly long taste test
We knew the country’s post-Olympic patriotism would settle down, but not like this. The Business News Network spent nearly 20...
Food & Drink
J.P. Challet returns to the Windsor Arms
More than a decade after he reopened the restaurant at the Windsor Arms, French chef J.P. Challet is returning to revamp the...
1
2
>>
Advertisement
Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’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
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!”
Just Listed
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment