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Sort-of Secret: Morts, a new mortadella sandwich business from Il Covo chef Ryan Campbell
Toronto has officially reached peak mortadella
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Sort-of Secret: Radio Cocktails, a boutique virtual bar delivering bottled cocktails and salumi boards
A half-litre of negronis for only $29? Don't mind if we do
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Sort-of Secret: Friday Night Delights, chef Matthew Ravenscroft’s new plant-based supper series
He's keeping busy while on furlough from vegan Mexican restaurant Rosalinda
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Sort-of Secret: Good Behaviour, a small-batch creamery churning out super-seasonal pints of ice cream
Current flavours include Hong Kong milk tea and honey-nut cereal
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Sort-of Secret: Centre Ice Hot Wings, a chicken wing pop-up run out of a burger joint
The current lineup: classic Buffalo, lemon pepper and suicide dry rub
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Sort-of Secret: Cry Baby Cakes, an online bakery run by the former pastry chef of Quatrefoil and La Banane
There’s only one rule: no fondant allowed
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Sort-of Secret: Godfrey’s Supper Club, a pop-up serving weekly menus of Eastern European comfort food
Chef Shauna Godfrey previously worked in the kitchens of Momofuku Kōjin and NYC’s Atera
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Sort-of Secret: Mac’s Pizza, a new Saturdays-only pizza pop-up
Mac’s makes a limited quantity of pies each week—and once they're gone, they're gone
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Sort-of Secret: Flora’s Deli, an Italian-style sandwich pop-up operating out of a west-end bar
It's run by a former Chantecler chef
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Sort-of Secret: Sunnys Chinese, a pop-up kitchen serving up meticulous Chinese menus with a regional focus
The most recent menu was 100 per cent Sichuan
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Sort-of Secret: Porzia’s Lasagne, a weekly takeout pasta operation working out of a west-end restaurant
Just look at all those layers
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Sort-of Secret: Crosley’s, a pop-up dinner service run by a couple of Brothers Restaurant alumni
It's being run out of Bar Piquette until they open their own space next year
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A Toronto brew pub has teamed up with Montreal’s Joe Beef to create the best TV dinner tray of all time
Haute heat-and-eat cuisine from Woodhouse Brew Pub
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Sort-of Secret: Breadhead, a one-woman bakery selling sourdough bread, croissants, cinnamon buns and doughnuts
When the kitchen pastry chef Lucy Kirby was hired to work in closed, she started her own
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Sort-of Secret: Noble House, a small-scale kitchen for family style takeout from the 416 Snack Bar chef
These meals are meant to cater to a whole family's tastes
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Sort-of Secret: Mama Akua’s, delicious Ghanaian dishes from a mother-daughter duo
If you've never tried jollof rice or red red before, now's your chance
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Sort-of Secret: Littlemans Kitchen, a fledgling food brand and pop up that makes insanely good Japanese cream puffs
Find out how to get their sweet, sweet cracked puffs
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Sort-of Secret: Spice Girl Eats, a one-woman operation selling delicious, homemade Indian takeout
When Becca Pereira ended up out of work because of Covid, she got cooking
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Sort-of Secret: This Toronto-made ice cream is so popular, it sells out in minutes every single week
One-woman operation Ruru Baked is doing bonkers business
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Sort-of Secret: This excellent shawarma stand is hidden in the back of a convenience store
This is no ordinary variety store
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Sort-of Secret: These Cabbagetown croissants have a cult following
There’s a reason they sell out in less than two hours
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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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