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How two pastry chefs turned a Vaughan industrial unit into a destination for croissants
The story behind Bartholomew Bakery
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This sort-of-secret dinner series celebrates Toronto’s queer and sapphic communities
Eat Out Supper Club brings strangers together for maximalist, sensual meals
Food & Drink
You practically need to apply to eat at this six-person restaurant
And there’s no menu
Food & Drink
The heartwarming story behind Scarborough’s sort-of-secret pie stand
How a field service engineer became a one-man baking operation
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This hyper-local bakery in Cambridge uses almost nothing but Canadian ingredients, right down to the salt
That means no vanilla, no chocolate and no citrus
Food & Drink
This sort-of-secret Parkdale sandwich shop hosts an affordable family-style supper club once a month
Coire is tucked away in the back of Danu Social House
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A father-son team is turning out must-try Egyptian stuffed pastry in a Mississauga plaza
Adel's Fatatre specializes in feteer, flaky pastry stuffed with sweet and savoury ingredients
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This Kensington Market café makes some of the city’s best sandwiches
Everything there is to eat at Made-Rite, Leemo Han’s latest project
Food & Drink
This must-try vegan taco spot is hidden inside a Junction Triangle plaza
Taqueria Vegana is serving plant-based versions of all the taco hits—including carne asada, al pastor and carnitas
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Bindi’s Burgers, an Indian-inspired smash burger operation inside a Little Italy bar
Also on the menu: deep-fried paneer sticks and masala chicken nuggets
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Sort-of Secret: Alice Marie, a new Leslieville bakery and coffee shop with a cult following
Pastry chef Rachelle Cornish left her post at Michelin-recommended White Lily Diner to open this sweet spot
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Sort-of Secret: Tatin Bakehouse, a French bakery in Oakville with a Michelin connection
Pastry chef Lili Linda left her post at Hexagon to open her own pâtisserie
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Sort-of Secret: That Nonna Life, an event series celebrating Italian-Canadian culture
It’s a love letter to Italian grandmothers
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Sort-of Secret: Cosette Coffee, a bakery near High Park serving top-notch pastries, desserts and a cookie that is out of this world
Former aerospace engineer Christina Cho turned her passion for high-octane pastry into a full-time pursuit
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Sort-of Secret: Jaffna Street Food, a father-son team bringing Tamil dishes to the downtown core
“Tamil chefs make Italian food, Asian food—everything but their own food”
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Sort-of Secret: The new walk-in lunch service at Affinity Fish
Including one of the city’s best katsu sandos
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Sort-of Secret: Island Oysters, a sweet little seafood bar in Bloordale
Come for the oysters, stay for the crispy cod cakes and pillowy prawn rolls
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Sort-of Secret: Las Delicias, a beloved Colombian restaurant in Mississauga
A family-run spot where guests can be transported without getting on a plane
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Sort-of Secret: Smoked and Smashed, a 500-square-foot barbecue spot in Vaughan
Think Montreal smoked meat sandwiches and 30-day dry-aged smash burgers
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Sort-of Secret: Pia, a monthly Mediterranean and Indian fusion pop-up
Think arancini stuffed with spiced chicken biryani
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Sort-of Secret: The Bollywood Tacos, an Indian-Mexican restaurant in Oshawa
Think butter chicken tacos and curry lamb nachos
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Sort-of Secret: Panificio Bruno, an Italian home bakery turning out just 20 loaves of focaccia a week
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Casa Verde, an old-school Italian restaurant housed in an 1890s Ajax farmhouse
The building was a rum runner’s den and a makeshift maternity ward in its checkered past
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Sort-of Secret: Southeast Sandwiches, a fast-casual spot in Woodbridge serving Vietnamese and Filipino twists on sandwiches, tacos and poutine
From two friends with fine-dining backgrounds who decided to break into the fast-food industry
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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
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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
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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
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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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