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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Tiny Market Co., a petite place in the Annex for handmade noodles, lunchtime sandwiches and monthly pasta parties
Like many of the city's new businesses, it started as a pandemic project
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: California Restaurant and Bar, a Pape Village kitchen with an American name but an Eastern European menu
Part of our series shining a spotlight on the city’s hidden edible gems
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Taudo’s, Toronto Raptor Dalano Banton’s favourite Jamaican restaurant in Rexdale
"His dad and I are from the same community in Jamaica, so we're like family. His grandfather was my barber!”
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Jean Darlene, a karaoke piano bar hidden down an alley behind a KFC
Platinum Blonde frontman Mark Holmes is the resident crooner
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Downtown Winery, a new winery, snack bar and bottle shop on Ossington
Wine Country appeal—without the drive
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Grateful Chicken, chef Brandon Olsen’s fried chicken comeback
Also on the menu: Basque cake and champagne
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: St. Brigid’s Creamery, the Ontario-made gourmet butter Emerald Grasslands fans need to know about
Did someone say butter board?
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Frank Ranalli’s, an Italian beef sandwich business inside a hot dog shop
Warning: do not read this article on an empty stomach
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: The Little Jerry, Toronto’s first listening bar for serious audiophiles
Featuring a state-of-the-art sound system and an extensive record collection full of deep cuts
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Frank’s Jerk, a Jamaican chicken pop-up at a Dundas West bar
Just follow your nose
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Fuoco Mio, a food truck in the Stockyards serving up panini and wood-fired pizzas
Fun for the whole famiglia
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Sailor’s Fish and Chips, a new takeout counter inside Hooked on Danforth
Unsurprisingly, the city's seafood experts make some pretty good snacks
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: No Pain Gimbap, a new west-end kitchen for Korean snacks
The sushi-like rolls are perfect for park picnics
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Sort-of Secret: Snack Edition, a delivery service for hard-to-find treats like apple-flavoured Fanta and Dunkaroos cereal
Owner Reema Aviles turned her junk food obsession into a business during the pandemic
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Heavenly Perogy, a Ukrainian restaurant and food shop running out of a church basement
It's the schnitz
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Cicchetto, a new line of Toronto-made tipples started by a chef and bartender
This ain't your nonna's limoncello
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Sort-of Secret: The Donuterie, artisanal doughnuts from a Leslieville lunch counter
They make cronuts, too. Remember cronuts?
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: These pillowy loaves of Japanese milk bread from a Roncesvalles ramen shop
Aoi Yoshida found out that you can still make milk bread even if you run out of milk
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Mamey, a family run pop-up and delivery service specializing in homemade tamales
Each tamal is like a gift waiting to be unwrapped
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Sort-of Secret: Pies by Squires, savoury meat pies and sausage rolls from a former Buca chef
Including one that's dinner and dessert, combined
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Geladona’s freezies, artisanal ice treats in fun Brazilian flavours like açai, passion fruit, guava and avocado
Perfect for sweltering summer days
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Super Empanada, the new pastry pocket project of a west-end steakhouse
It's Tanto's comfort-food pandemic pivot
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Sort-of Secret: Burgers, bagels and pastrami from a Toronto man who’s a lawyer by day and a chef by night
It's worth setting an alarm if you want to place an order
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Sort-of Secret: The New Pie Company, a two-person operation baking up whimsical pies once a week
It all started with a giveaway
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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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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
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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