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Summerlicious
Food & Drink
A snapshot of Sap, O&B’s Canadian comfort food restaurant
Executive chef Ryan Lister curates a colourful menu driven by local and seasonal ingredients
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Culture
Summerlicious, a Ricky Gervais stand-up set and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of July 10
Culture
A Guns N’ Roses comeback, Summerlicious and five other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of July 11
Food & Drink
Summerlicious: dignified dining program or “cash-grabby food factory”?
The idea of dining out on the cheap is nice, but what is Summerlicious like from the restaurant's perspective? Sure, bargain meals...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
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Summerlicious 2014: the 67 restaurants that have our stamp of approval
As any 'Licious veteran knows, the prix-fixe festival's discount meals can feel like an amazing deal or a terrible scam, depending...
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It’s time to figure out your Summerlicious game plan
You know it's really summer when the city's civilized restaurant scene transforms into a frantic orgy of cut-rate...
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We called our 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to find out when you can still get a table
With this year’s Summerlicious festival winding down (the last day is Sunday), we decided to call up the top 10 most clicked-on...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of Summerlicious 2012’s prix fixe rebels
One-hundred-and-eighty-one restaurant kitchens across the city are in full onslaught mode with Summerlicious now in day six—but...
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Summerlicious Lunch Pick: Canoe’s steal of a $25 prix fixe
There’s a reason Canoe is the most sought-after Summerlicious reservation every year: for only $25, diners can join the Bay...
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The Weekender: Indy Toronto, Summerlicious and five other items on our to-do list
1. AZIZ ANSARI Funny dude Aziz Ansari, who’s probably best known for roles in Funny People and I Love You, Man , plus his turn...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
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Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Summerlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for Yorkville and the Annex
Between College and St. Clair, there’s a wealth of Summerlicious options, most of which, predictably, are clustered around...
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Summerlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for King West and the Financial District
The bulk of the best bets for Summerlicious are clustered in this area, including several Bay Street power restaurants that...
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Summerlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks east of the DVP
The area east of the DVP is never particularly well represented during Summerlicious, and this year, unfortunately, is no...
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Summerlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks north of St. Clair
North of St. Clair, the Summerlicious restaurants start to fan out widely, both in geography and in cuisine, and include some...
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Summerlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks west of Bathurst
Despite the recent explosion of new restaurants west of Bathurst, Summerlicious remains a downtown-centric affair. Still, there...
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It’s the most prix fixe time of the year: Summerlicious 2012 menus are out
Discount diners, start your engines. Earlier today, the good folks at the City of Toronto Special Events released the full list of...
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We called the 10 most clicked Summerlicious restaurants to scope out their experience—and availability
Toronto restaurants are firmly in the grip of Summerlicious , which continues to this Sunday, so we decided to find out how the...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of this year’s Summerlicious 2011 rebels
Every food festival worth its weight in foie gras has its dissenters, and this year’s Summerlicious is no exception. While the...
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Summerlicious Lunch Pick: Bymark’s B.C. halibut
Summerlicious officially launched last Friday ( see our complete guide ), and instead of serving a second-string menu, many...
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It’s on: Summerlicious 2011 starts today, and we’ve got you covered
You’ve been fighting for reservations for the last 15 days, and finally, it’s here. That’s right, Summerlicious 2011...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is a Summerlicious meal suitable for a first date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Is it poor form to take a woman out for a Summerlicious meal on a first date? —Penny-pinching...
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Best New Restaurants
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling