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Thompson Hotel
Life
A first look inside 1 Hotel, the Thompson’s verdant replacement
There are more than 3,300 plants strewn across the property
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15 of the top hotels in Toronto, ranked
Plan your next in-town escape with our guide to the city's artsy, polished, wildly excessive accommodations
City News
Where to spot celebrities during NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto
A field guide to the weekend's famous (and semi-famous) visitors
Food & Drink
Introducing: Colette Grand Café, the palatial new French restaurant in the Thompson Hotel
Name: Colette Grand Café and Bakery Contact Info: 550 Wellington St. W. , 647-348-7000, colettetoronto.com , @colettetoronto...
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Food & Drink
Scarpetta is closing at the Thompson Hotel so that The Chase can move in
Last year’s biggest, splashiest restaurant duo, pescaterian penthouse The Chase and its casual sister restaurant The Chase Fish...
Culture
TIFF Party: James Franco proves he’s just as well-rounded as he seems at a fête for The Director
Basement parties were the height of luxury last night as Gucci fêted the James Franco- produced documentary The Director in the...
Food & Drink
A giant Miami-style pool and bar is coming to Sound Academy
Charles Khabouth’ s latest venture may be his most outrageous yet. The Toronto nightclub and restaurant impresario is opening...
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Wedding Guide: 34 of Toronto’s best wedding venues
Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas St. W. (at McCaul St.), 416-979-6634 For a truly magnificent celebration, Frank Gehry’s...
Culture
TIFF SPOTTED: Bradley Cooper on the Thompson rooftop
People’ s Sexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper hit up the after-party for Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow last night on the Thompson...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $1.7 million for a slick unit in the Thompson owned by an MTV exec
ADDRESS: 55 Stewart Street, Unit 438 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Waterfront Communities-The Island AGENT: Brandon Ware, Private Service Realty...
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Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: your essential road map to 10 days of all-consuming revelry
In other words: everything you always wanted to know about the film festival but were too Torontonian to ask The Bell Lightbox...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
Culture
CONFIRMED: French goddess Marion Cotillard will be at TIFF 2012
When Marion Cotillard attended the film festival in 2010, she ruled the red carpet, shopped at Holt Renfrew and partied at the...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.8 million for a Victorian home across from the Thompson Hotel
ADDRESS : 50 Stewart Street NEIGHBOURHOOD : Waterfront Communities-The Island AGENT : Craig William Emond, Model Suites Realty...
City News
SPOTTED: Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello being hottttttt at the Thompson Hotel
The Thompson Hotel in Toronto is becoming a hotbed of hotties. First, it was rumoured that Jake Gyllenhaal is staying there, and...
City News
The Jake Watch continues: Gyllenhaal hits College Street
Jake Gyllenhaal is all over town, which means everyone is getting a glimpse at the bearded babe. Yesterday, the Jake Watch...
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Culture
Jake Gyllenhaal is in Toronto, and here’s where he’s been so far
Did you know that Jake Gyllenhaal is in Toronto? He’ll be here to work on Denis Villeneuve’ s film An Enemy from May 22 to...
Food & Drink
Hemant Bhagwani, the chef-owner of the Amaya empire, on where he goes to splurge and save
(Image: John Cullen)
Food & Drink
Best Bars: Toronto’s top 16 cocktail lounges, dives and speakeasies
CHECK OUT ALL 16 COCKTAIL PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST ROOFTOP TIPPLES | CLASSIEST DRINKS IN A DIVE | BEST DRINKS AFTER A 12-HOUR DAY |...
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The Thompson’s Lobby Bar taps Greta Constantine to design its wait staff’s uniforms
It was announced today that Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong of Greta Constantine will be designing the new staff uniform for the...
Food & Drink
Daniel Boulud’s new Café Boulud announced last night at the Four Seasons
The Four Seasons condo presentation centre played host to celeb chef Daniel Boulud last night, where he introduced his...
Food & Drink
Thompson Hotel takes control of its lobby bar from Scarpetta, allegedly fires entire wait staff
Wednesday we reported that The Counter at the Thompson Hotel has changed its name to the Thompson Diner, with no changes to the...
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Food & Drink
Reintroducing: the Thompson Diner, the restaurant formerly known as The Counter
The Counter, the casual 24-hour diner at the Thompson Hotel, is no more—not because it’s gone out of business or been shut...
Culture
SPOTTED: Stephen Harper (yes, that one) partying with Ludacris (yes, that one) at the Thompson Rooftop Lounge
We’d say this is the kind of pairing that could happen only at TIFF, but for all we know it’s not the first time that Prime...
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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
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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