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Sort-of Secret: Comma, a Korean restaurant on Queen West serving raw marinated crab
And pairing it with scotch whisky
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Sort-of Secret: Rosalu, an Italian snack bar and café inside a Christie Pits laundromat
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Purple Hibiscus, a pop-up bringing the original doubles, a piece of Trinidadian food history, to Toronto
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: The Daily Grind, a Bloordale gem serving Vietnamese-inspired brunch
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: K.Dinners, a supper club hosted by a Michelin-star-calibre chef inside a ceramics studio
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Le Spot, a Scarborough billiard lounge with a cult following for its food
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Lao Thai, a family-owned restaurant that all started with a high school project
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Nutmeg Spiced, a one-woman micro-bakery in Oakwood Village making exclusively Grenadian desserts
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Smilk Bars, an ice cream bar business from a graduate of Italy’s Gelato University
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Kumain Kitchen, a Filipino street food pop-up from twin brother chefs
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
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Sort-of Secret: Castle and Coal, a petite patisserie with all-dessert tasting menus
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Stop, a restaurant and wine bar serving up classic eastern European food with a twist
Part of our series spotlighting the city’s hidden edible gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Java Bali Kitchen, a delivery service and pop-up specializing in Indonesian dishes
Unable to find the tastes of home in Toronto, Zulfikar Fahd decided to do something about it
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Sort-of Secret: Chai Pani Streetary, an Oakville café serving up Indian street food
Their menu aims to include the most popular snacks from across the country
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: SeeYouSoon, a pop-up dinner series that’s different every time
The dinners are often collaborations with food and beverage producers, including farmers and fishmongers
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Oui Aïa, a monthly supper club held at a private location in downtown Toronto
The address is revealed to guests only after they’ve purchased tickets
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Sort-of Secret: Souvla, Mamakas Taverna’s weekends-only alfresco cookout on its Yorkville patio
Part of our ongoing series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Cubano Kings, an 18-square-foot Cuban kitchen with a takeout window on Spadina
Part of our ongoing series spotlighting the city’s edible hidden gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Pho Ngoc Yen, a hopping Vietnamese restaurant tucked away in a Mississauga industrial park
The airport-adjacent spot is popular for its short rib pho, bar snacks and warm hospitality
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Sort-of Secret: Zayzoun Mediterranean Restaurant, the best shawarma spot in Etobicoke that no one is talking about
Part of our series shining a spotlight on the city’s hidden edible gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Delicacy Kitchen, a new Chinese restaurant at Dufferin and Lawrence with an award-winning Cantonese chef
Wenqiu Kuang is famous for his qingxin chicken
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Sandwichito, a one-man Chilean sandwich operation on St. Clair West
Part of our series shining a light on the city’s hidden edible gems
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Sort-of Secret: Brandt Meats, a Mississauga food market and factory outlet with a hot-lunch counter
Part of our series shining a light on the city's hidden edible gems
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Sort-of Secret: Cucina Mauro, a cozy Italian lunch counter tucked away in a North York industrial plaza
Part of our series that shines a spotlight on the city’s hidden edible gems
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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
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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