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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in April
Openings Luckee — Celeb chef Susur Lee’s new destination for refined Cantonese cuisine and around-the-clock dim sum. Read our...
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Cinqo Drinkos: five inspired Toronto takes on the classic Mexican margarita
There are few things more quintessentially Mexican—or more dangerously refreshing—than the margarita, a time-honoured mix of...
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Opening soon: a new Leslieville location of Rock Lobster Food Co.
As if having three successful restaurants, a line of seafood products out at Sobeys and an upcoming cookbook wasn’t enough, Rock...
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Review: Ramen Isshin’s decor isn’t great, but the house broth delivers supremely porky flavour
Ramen Isshin ★ 421 College St., 416-367-4013 The owners of Kingyo, the rollicking Cabbagetown izakaya, have opened a spinoff...
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Review: Small Town Food Co., a cozy Parkdale pub with carefully constructed comfort dishes
Small Town Food Co. ★★ 1263 Queen St. W., 416-538-7695 Queen West young’uns nibble on gourmet bar snacks and comfort food at...
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Review: Mad Mexican brings excellent tacos and tortas to Baby Point
Mad Mexican ★½ 383 Jane St., 416-907-5787 Chef José Hadad’s Mad Mexican salsas, bean dips, guacamole and tortilla chips...
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Introducing: Pain Perdu, a traditional French bistro in Lawrence Park
Name: Pain Perdu Contact Info: 3185 Yonge St., 416-488-0081, painperdubistro.com Neighbourhood: Lawrence Park Owners: Evaristo De...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Shumai and Shawarma Edition
In this week’s roundup: Middle Eastern cuisine dominates, and Sandy Cohen eats dumplings. 1. Luckee It's always a good sign when...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Bestellen, Buca and Nota Bene
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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This new Dundas West restaurant will track Toronto food trends (and stay open till 4 a.m.)
There’s no shortage of late-night food available around Ossington, but most kitchens do eventually close—usually by midnight...
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Introducing: The Passenger, a cute new gastropub in the Junction with a little retro flair
Name: The Passenger Contact Info: 2968 Dundas St. W., 416-762-0777, thepassenger.co Neighbourhood: The Junction Owners: Michelle...
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The Bristol Yard is closing (and then reopening, with a new menu)
In the great British gastropub wave of 2012, The Bristol Yard stood out as one of the best—especially at brunch on...
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Solved: the weird mystery of the restaurant at 785 Queen West
The upcoming restaurant at 785 Queen Street West has had us baffled for months now. According to this website , the business is...
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Must-Try: junky movie snacks get an elegant upgrade at Richmond Station
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Introducing: Luckee, Susur Lee’s new haute dim-sum restaurant at the Soho Met
Name: Luckee Contact Info: 328 Wellington St. W., 416-935-0400, luckeerestaurant.com , @LuckeeTO Neighbourhood: Entertainment...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Easter Long Weekend Edition
In this week’s roundup: Everyone loves hummus, and David Chang goes to Hooters. 1. Bar Buca Toronto Life’ s Mark Pupo had nice...
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Introducing: La Créole brings refined island cuisine to a romantic room on St. Clair West
Name: La Créole Contact Info: 810 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-651-8228, lacreole.ca Neighbourhood: Humewood Owners: Ben Cherette and...
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Introducing: The Workshop by Latitude, a new Roncesvalles restaurant for anyone who loves cheese
Name: The Workshop by Latitude Contact Info: 331 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-785-2123, workshopbylatitude.ca, @workshop331...
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Meet the Crackie, a cross between a chocolate-chip cookie and a sack of pork rinds
Just when Toronto’s preoccupation with gimmicky hybrid foods seemed to be waning a little, this happens. Porchetta and Co., the...
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Farmhouse Tavern is the latest Toronto restaurant to open a spin-off
Why have one great restaurant when you can have two? That seems to be the logic behind Toronto’s new run of culinary...
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Introducing: Speakeasy 21, a new Bay Street cocktail bar with a soon-to-come 3,500-square-foot patio
Name: Speakeasy 21 Contact Info: 21 Adelaide St. W. (main floor of Scotia Plaza, North entrance), 416-601-0210, speakeasy21.com...
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Hey, Toronto, you’re not a great tipper (relative to Ottawa and Montreal)
Torontonians are a pretty parsimonious bunch when it comes to tipping, according to a recent study by Square, a San...
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Grand Electric takes cottage country with a new Muskoka spin-off
Here’s yet another reason for Muskoka cottagers to feel blessed and superior: Grand Electric, the hip-but-grungy taco shop in...
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Introducing: Cleo, a new spot for Middle Eastern cuisine near Yonge and Lawrence
Name: Cleo Contact Info: 3471 Yonge St., 416-440-0700, cleorestaurant.ca Neighbourhood: Hoggs Hollow Owner and chef: Sam...
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’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
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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
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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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