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The Food Dudes
Food & Drink
What to eat, drink and do at Summer House, the new multi-level staycation experience at Hotel X
Including massive steaks, tropical cocktails and rooftop yoga
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Food & Drink
“The third lockdown was the perfect storm”: Why this restaurant decided to halt its takeout business and take a 28-day break
Food Dudes' executive chef Adrian Niman on why he's shutting down Rasa for now
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Sara, Rasa’s sleek new sister restaurant from the Food Dudes
Fun fact: the tables have secret cellphone compartments
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Blondies, the Food Dudes’ new east-end pizza parlour
Ten pizzas, three salads and frozen yogurt
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Life
Real Weddings: Inside the first-ever ceremony at the Symes, a restored art deco building in the Junction
Complete with a human pyramid on the dance floor
Food & Drink
Introducing: Omaw, Matt Blondin’s Carolina-inspired spot on Ossington
The old Levack Block space is now a low-country kitchen
Food & Drink
New King West bar Early Mercy brings food trucks to you
It's like a reverse drive-thru
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Food & Drink
What Matt Blondin and The Food Dudes have been up to
It’s been well over a year since the talented (and typically outspoken) chef Matt Blondin and catering company/food truck...
Food & Drink
“We’ve never even tried to go downtown”: food truck folk tell us what they think about the new bylaws
Toronto’s city council loosened its grip on food trucks last month, but truck owners are still locked in a turf war with...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Rasa, The Food Dudes’ new restaurant in Harbord Village
Name: Rasa Neighbourhood: University Contact Info: 196 Robert St., 647-350-8221, rasabar.ca Owners: The Food Dudes Chef: Adrian...
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Food & Drink
Matt Blondin’s Junk has finally found a home
Matt Blondin has been titillating Toronto food fans for weeks with coy tweets about his new snack bar, Junk (which, he has been...
Food & Drink
Matt Blondin teams up with The Food Dudes to open a new snack bar
Chef Matt Blondin, the culinary whiz who helmed the kitchens at Acadia and Momofuku Daishō before going rogue last spring, is...
Style
Wedding Guide: the best catering companies in Toronto
À la Carte Kitchen 2 Thorncliffe Park Dr. (at Overlea Blvd.), Unit 43, 416-971-4068 Founders Simon Kattar (a chef) and Brian King...
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: The Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in August
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Food Dudes’ new food truck
Adrian Niman (North 44) started his catering company, The Food Dudes, in 2007 as a one-man operation serving elevated fare for the...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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