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Beer sales down, thief swipes grease, Frank Bruni passes fork to new critic
• A man was arrested in Britain after allegedly stealing 8,200 gallons of vegetable oil from restaurants all over the city of...
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Toronto’s espresso experts tell us of coffee’s second coming, what makes a good cup and why Starbucks isn’t all bad
The atmosphere may have been frothy at the Seventh Annual Regional Barista Championships at the Gladstone Hotel last Sunday, but...
Food & Drink
Jolt of caffeine: 13 new independent cafés open in Toronto
While McDonald’s , Tim Hortons and Starbucks duke it out across North America in their giveaway coffee war, a new batch of...
Food & Drink
Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
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Mitzi’s: The College Years
A new sibling in the Mitzi’s family— Mitzi’s on College —will open at 890 College Street in early July. With Mitzi’s...
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Thuet opens one, closes another
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are adding a new outpost to their empire, just as they close the dining room at Atelier Thuet . The...
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Americans becoming “flexitarians,” Laura Secord vs. Tim Hortons, designer ice cubes
• There is a recession-era term that's possibly more annoying than "recessionista." Americans are turning into...
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Free is the new black: Harvey’s and Timmies get into the giveaway game
As if Tim Hortons—arguably one of the most beloved commercial symbols of Canadiana—needs more press, the coffee giant is...
Food & Drink
Bacon booze, Maple Leaf relief and the beef with beef
• Recent studies have revealed that beef is the least environmentally friendly meat out there, while the opposite is true of...
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Get free stuff—it’s Earth Day
Today Starbucks is giving free coffee to customers who bring in their own travel mugs—not because McDonald’s is giving away...
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Stadtländer’s latest, Charlie’s Burgers mystery, 900 Starbucks closures
• Good news for fans of Michael Stadtländer’s acclaimed Eigensinn Farm : the cultivator-chef will be launching a new...
Food & Drink
Charging for tap water, ATM-style coffee, the return of Jamie Oliver
• Though he's been in Britain’s bad books often over the past decade, Naked Chef Jamie Oliver is back. He became the...
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Coffee Culture chain to open its first Toronto location
Torontonians are coffee obsessed (we might even describe ourselves as snobs), but the new kid on the block is no Aunties and...
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Parkdale’s new festival, Beerbistro’s free meal giveaway, Starbucks’ breakfast deals
• Consumers are willing to pay much more for ethically produced meat, but who really knows what the label means? Here, a look at...
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Gordon Ramsay’s unfavourable reviews, eating on $50 a week, coffee addictions justified
• Perhaps we shouldn’t be so anxious for Gordon Ramsay to open his new Toronto spot: the critics are bashing the foul-mouthed...
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Toronto’s recession reaction: forget Starbucks, open 10 new cafés
Is it just us, or are independent coffee shops becoming as common as month-long Boxing Day sales? We counted a minimum of 10...
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Mr. Sub drug bust, Starbucks downsizes, Pizza Pizza goes west
• Carb-loading may not be the only indulgence attracting Mr. Sub customers after dark. Police uncovered a marijuana stash worth...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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