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The Wedding Album: Natalie & Nathan’s small, unfussy union at the Drake
Natalie & Nathan | August 20, 2011 | The Drake Hotel Café View their wedding album » Natalie Sammut and Nathan Vella were 15 and...
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Food & Drink
Anthony Rose is leaving the Drake
The man responsible for turning the Drake Hotel’ s restaurant into a canteen for the city’s young, hip and beautiful is...
Food & Drink
Best Bars: Three top Toronto trivia nights
The Drake Hotel 1150 Queen St. W., 416-531-5042 Quizmaster Terrance Balazo has turned trivia into a bona fide profession. He hosts...
Food & Drink
Check out some chefs behaving badly as they ham it up at a photo shoot for Terroir 2012
Terroir, the hospitality industry symposium, brings chefs, wine and food experts, restaurateurs and members of the food media...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada season two contestants announced; here are your six Toronto chefs
With the sophomore season of Top Chef Canada set to premiere on March 12, Food Network Canada has finally introduced the 16 chefs...
Food & Drink
Family-style meals + the Internet = The Social Feed (which launches in Toronto tomorrow)
Ever since Toronto’s first iteration of Dishcrawl sold out well in advance, we’ve been sure there’d be more...
Food & Drink
Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks west of Bathurst
The Winterlicious restaurants west of Bathurst are a mixed bag, from authentic Mexican at Frida to hipster institutions like The...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Stasis Local Foods, the new Roncesvalles emporium for all things pickled and jarred (and preferably local)
Up at the northern tip of Roncesvalles, just south of Dundas, sits the neighbourhood’s newest gourmet food shop, Stasis Local...
Food & Drink
Top Toronto chefs recognized in 2011’s Nine of Dine at the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo
This weekend, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre will host the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo, four days celebrating everything...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s five best house-made pickles
Lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs, these pickles are the best of the puckery pack (Image: Gilead...
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Shopping
The Drake’s annual fall market promises chocolate and bacon cookies, handmade products and vintage records
The Drake holds a fall market every year with handmade goods from local artisans—think of it as a flea market or a church...
Food & Drink
In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
City News
Michelle Dean: I ♥ N.Y. (Not T.O.)
Dear Toronto: I’d like to say that it’s me, not you, but I’d be lying. It is you. You have no passion, no ambition. You...
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City News
The Onion, that paper your friend’s friend picked up in Milwaukee that one time, now available in Toronto
Joking aside: in its first export from the United States, satirical newspaper The Onion landed in T.O. this morning. Long popular...
Food & Drink
Introducing: the second stop on the Drake Dining Roadshow, 1940s L.A. Chinatown
Back in June, we told you about the Drake Hotel’ s Dining Roadshow , a series of thematically changing restaurant concepts...
Culture
TIFF after hours: the 44 (and counting) film fest venues with the coveted 4 a.m. last call
Every year celebs from all over the world flood into the city for TIFF, but for many, it’s the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of...
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VIDEO: The Drake releases a puzzling trailer for the next iteration of its Dining Roadshow series
In what’s probably a Toronto first, The Drake has released a trailer for the next iteration of its Dining Roadshow series of in...
City News
Queen West named a “great place to explore” in USA Today
Resident urban creative class guru Richard Florida recently drew up a list for USA Today’ s Larry Bleiberg of 10 up-and-coming...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Belong, Brad Long’s new restaurant at the Brick Works
After almost half a year of delays, Brad Long ’ s Café Belong finally opened at the Evergreen Brick Works on Saturday...
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Introducing: Hammersmith’s, Riverdale’s newest spot for scones and other breakfast favourites
Hammersmith’s , the brainchild of boyfriend-girlfriend duo Brittany Peglar and Colin Reed , is a new brunch spot in brunch-laden...
Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
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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Introducing: The Drake Summer School Dining Hall, the first in the boutique hotel’s Dining Roadshow series
The Drake Hotel has never been afraid of a little shtick, and pop-up and quasi pop-up operations have long been a part of...
Food & Drink
DIY Barbecue Guide: how to make the Drake’s sweet, sour and bitter Cucumber Smash
Created by The Drake Hotel’s bar manager, Jon Humphrey, the Cucumber Smash is a tight balance of sweet, sour and bitter with a...
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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
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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