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The Saint
Food & Drink
Why tipping is going away (and why I’ll miss it)
As more Toronto restaurants go gratuity-free, how are we to reward good service?
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Toronto’s 25 best burgers right now
More than two dozen of the city's gloriously gluttonous hamburgers
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Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #9. Toronto’s gastropubs make the best Sunday roasts
Chef Andrew Carter offers a traditional beef roast at the Queen and Beaver pub near Yonge-Dundas Square. But with a few days’...
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Flavour of the Month: five elevated takes on the lowly Tater Tot
Lately the lowly Tater Tot has gone from a freezer aisle snack to an upmarket indulgence. Here, the top five takes on the...
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Flavour of the Month: lobster goes casual in five pub-style plates
After a recessionary hiatus, the symbol of culinary luxury is back on menus, but something’s changed: lobster has gone...
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Five new pubs that push British comfort food beyond pigs and puddings
1. The Grove Ben Heaton’s restaurant has upturned all our Brit pub expectations by putting modern spins on stodgy classics. His...
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Gastropub Crawl: the good and great among the new wave of British pubs
Can a new crop of British pubs push the comforting cuisine beyond stodgy pigs and puddings? Toronto is a town obsessed with the...
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Friday Night Bites: The Saint, Pangaea and Splendido
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in April
• The Saint— after three long years of waiting, during which time most of Ossington rapidly gentrified, this neighbourhood...
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Introducing: Hawker Bar, Toronto’s first spot for Singapore-style street food
Hawker Bar joins the likes of The Saint and Bellwoods Brewery on the strip as the new kids on the Ossington block. Run by a pack...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Ici Bistro, The Saint and The Grove
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Introducing: The Saint, Ossington’s long-awaited and oft-delayed contemporary tavern
When we first told you about The Saint back in 2009, we said it would open in April—and it will, albeit three years later than...
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The Saint is finally, really, seriously, actually going to open on Ossington
In 2009, we predicted that The Saint would bring “some King Street style to the Ossington strip.” But any excitement over that...
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Salt Wine Bar finally set to open on Ossington
The Saint is the only mystery resto left on Ossington. The much-anticipated Salt Wine Bar, which has been tantalizingly papered up...
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Just Opened: OurHouse, a bar with one of the last licences on Ossington
One of the most valuable slips of paper in the city is a liquor licence for premises on Ossington Avenue, and Anthony Siniscalco...
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Galleries reap rewards of Ossington restaurant restrictions
When the contentious moratorium on new bars and restaurants on Ossington Avenue was passed last year, the strip lost its...
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Just opened: Buca
The brains behind Brassaii , Jacobs and Co. and soon-to-be-opened The Saint are adding yet another restaurant to their...
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Name that Saloon: West Queen West gets a new bar by the Harbord Room boys
In a powerhouse collaboration to rival The Saint’s roster, the Harbord Room ’s owner (David Mitton, also of Czehoski ), chef...
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Go west: The Saint brings some King Street style to the Ossington strip
For the past two years, trendspotters’ eyes have been fixed on the Ossington Avenue strip. And now the ’hood is getting a...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“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
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative