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Food & Drink
Q&A: John Bil, the in-demand oysterman who’s shucked his way to the top
How do you get to be one of Canada's most respected seafood experts? If you're John Bil, owner of the Junction's new fish...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Fresh Off The Boat, a new seafood sandwich shop on Queen West
Name: Fresh Off The Boat Contact Info: 404 Queen St. W., 416-603-3333, @FOTB416 Previously: IWing Pizza & Wings Neighbourhood:...
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Introducing: Little Fin, the mix-and-match seafood restaurant from the owners of The Chase
Name: Little Fin Contact Info: 4 Temperance St., 647-348-7000, littlefin.ca, @Little_Fin Previously: Italian restaurant Fiore...
Food & Drink
Baby Point brunch spot Camp is now Fish Camp, the city’s latest seafood destination
In the last year, Toronto’s restaurant makeup has become about 80 per cent fishier. Rock Lobster, once a cute pop-up shop, has...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: Seafood
Last year’s lobster roll craze has escalated into a full-blown love affair with fresh platters of tentacles, claws and other...
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St. Lawrence bistro Lucien becomes Toronto’s newest seafood bar
Lucien used to be one of the city’s fussier fine-dining institutions. Now the downtown restaurant has undergone a dramatic...
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Review: Rock Lobster’s delightfully chaotic Queen West outpost
Rock Lobster ★½ 538 Queen St. W., 416-203-6623 Have an opinion on Rock Lobster? Add your review here »
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Introducing: Smoked and Cracked, a new lobster shack on Mount Pleasant
Name: Smoked and Cracked Neighbourhood: Davisville Contact Info: 516 Mount Pleasant Rd., 647-748-5722, smokedandcracked.com...
Food & Drink
Recipe: butter-poached lobster from the virtuous fishmongers at Hooked
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 4 BUTTER POACHED LOBSTER Coarse sea salt 6 lbs live lobster, about 4...
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Introducing: Geraldine, a new spot for absinthe, oysters and Edwardian hospitality in Parkdale
Name: Geraldine Contact Info: 1564 Queen St. W., geraldinetoronto.com, @GeraldineResto Neighbourhood: Parkdale Owners: Alexandra...
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Introducing: The Chase, a swishy new penthouse restaurant in the Financial District
Name: The Chase Contact Info: 10 Temperance St., thechasetoronto.com, 647-348-7000, @TheChaseTO Neighbourhood: Financial District...
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Introducing: The Chase Fish and Oyster, a new Hamptons-style seafood bar in the historic Dineen building
Name: The Chase Fish and Oyster Contact Info: 10 Temperance St., Flr. 1, thechasefo.com , 647-348-7000, @TheChaseTO Neighbourhood:...
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College West seafood shack Red Fish is closed
The restaurant from the former chef of Fishbar on Ossington opened last summer to positive reviews for its dainty fish charcuterie...
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Introducing: Rock Lobster Food Co. on Queen West, a second outpost of the trendy seafood restaurant
Name: Rock Lobster Food Co. Neighbourhood: Queen West Contact Info: 538 Queen St. W ., 416-203-6623, rocklobsterfood.com/...
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Introducing: Cool City Oyster Yard, a new surf shack at 99 Sudbury that’s open from June to October
Name: Cool City Oyster Yard Neighbourhood: Beaconsfield Village Contact Info: 99 Sudbury, 647-426-5997, www.coolcityoyster.com...
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Review: The Happy Hooker serves fresh fish tacos from a seafood shack on Dundas West
The Happy Hooker ★½ 887 Dundas St. W., 647-769-4243 Chef Attilio Pugliese has opened a new seafood shack specializing in fish...
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Review: John and Sons, a new people-watching pub and oyster bar in Rosedale
Rosedale’s new oyster bar is all sideways glances, double kisses and how-do-you-know-so-and-so’s. The seafood-centred pub...
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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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Introducing: Red Fish, a new West Coast–inspired seafood restaurant on College
Ever since brunch favourite Mitzi’s on College closed late February, Little Portugal residents have been crossing their fingers...
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New Reviews: Hoof Raw Bar, Lamesa Filipino Kitchen and Edulis
A raw seafood bar, a serious locavore bistro and Filipino fusion downtown Hoof Raw Bar 926 Dundas St. W., 647-346-9356 Jen...
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Lobster oversupply brings the Cadillac of shellfish to the masses
Lobster, that well-loved conduit for drawn butter and the go-to symbol for a posh meal, is becoming way more wallet-friendly. A...
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Hooked set to take over Sanagan’s old Kensington Market space later this summer
Since it opened shop in Leslieville last year, home cooks and chefs alike have lauded Hooked for its resolutely sustainable...
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Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Introducing: De la Mer, the Bayview fishmonger’s outpost on Roncesvalles
“Would you like to enjoy an oyster while you browse?” De la Mer co-owner David Owen asks a tot-toting Roncesvalles mom, while...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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