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Happy Child closes; west-end revelers lose a late-night snack destination
With dozens of late-night snack bars now populating Toronto’s west end, statistics alone seemed to guarantee that not all of...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: The Citizen, an unusually sophisticated sports bar in Brant House’s former digs
Name: The Citizen Neighbourhood: King West Contact Info: 522 King St. W., 416-703-2800, thecitizento.com , @thecitizen_to Owners:...
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Introducing: Starving Artist, the gourmet waffle house’s new St. Clair West location
Name: Starving Artist Neighbourhood: Corso Italia Contact Info: 1078 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-901-7079, starvingartist.ca Owner and...
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A low-key dive bar and veggie café opens on the Queen West strip
Situated smack in the middle of one of Toronto’s most self-consciously cool bar zones, Lipstick and Dynamite— the name is an...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Bent, The Chase and Geraldine
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...
Food & Drink
The Dish Power Rankings: Best New Restaurants Edition
In this week’s roundup: Toronto Life comes out with its yearly roundup of the city’s best spots, and a beloved $10 lunch...
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Introducing: The County Cocktail, the Queen West diner’s new Riverdale café and snack bar
Name: The County Cocktail and Snack Bar Contact Info: 798 Queen St. E., 416-781-4743, thecountygeneral.ca/cocktail...
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Review: Fonda Lola stands out from the Mexican pack with Aztec recipes and kombucha-spiked sangria
Fonda Lola ★ 942 Queen St. W., 647-706-9105 Chef Howard Dubrovsky cooks ancient Aztec recipes inherited from his aunt, a Mexican...
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Ossington meat shop Côte De Boeuf is hosting a Game of Thrones dinner party
With the premiere of Game of Thrones season four on HBO just four weeks out, Toronto fans are running out of ways to sate their...
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The director of
Ghostbusters
is opening a massive new restaurant near the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Ivan Reitman, the guy who single-handedly launched Arnold Schwarzenegger’ s comedic career (and directed Ghostbusters, Stripes...
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Changing of the French guard: Mount Pleasant’s Mogette is the latest Toronto bistro to call it quits
For years, Toronto’s bistro scene has been relatively immune to the foodie fickleness that’s seen other restaurants’...
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Introducing: D.W. Alexander, an updated library bar lodged in a 19th-century heritage building
Name: D.W. Alexander Contact Info: 19 Church St., 416-364-8368, DWAlexander.com, @DWAlexanderTO Neighbourhood: St. Lawrence Market...
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Queen West snack bar It’s All GRK expands with two more downtown locations
When It’s All GRK opened on Queen West, it ushered in a new era of Mediterranean snack bars in Toronto: nearby Rose City Kitchen...
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Chef Nick Liu (finally) finds a location for GwaiLo, his long-awaited Asian brasserie
Two years can be an eternity in the service industry. Ask chef Nick Liu: that’s how long it took him to find a home for GwaiLo...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Yours Truly chef Lachlan Culjak shows how much work goes into a single restaurant dish
After watching this video, you may never again feel compelled to complain about dropping too much cash on dinner. Yours Truly chef...
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Must-Try: Lamesa’s tropical, multi-textured (and very purple) Filipino sundae
At Lamesa, chef Rudy Boquila’ s fusion food draws an equal mix of Queen Westers and Filipino families chatting away in...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Quinta, Edulis and The Beverley
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 Dish Power Rankings: March Break Edition
In this week’s roundup: Bob Blumer eats pork, and a beloved Dundas West bistro says goodbye with a final brunch. 1. Chantecler...
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Coming to Casa Loma: a family-friendly steakhouse
When we heard that the Liberty Entertainment Group, the company behind Rosewater and Cibo Wine Bar, was opening a restaurant in...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in February
Openings Ze Ze Food and Drink —Grilled-brioche crostini come topped in creative ways at this new Parkdale café, lunch spot and...
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Introducing: Come and Get It, the Queen West pop-up’s new permanent digs
Name: Come And Get It Neighbourhood: Queen West Contact Info: 676 Queen St. W., 647-344-3416, comeandgetit.ca , @ComeAndGetIt416...
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Introducing: District Oven, a new “Middleterranean” restaurant from the owner of 93 Harbord
Name: District Oven Contact Info: 842 College St., 416-901-7717, @DistrictOvenTO Neighbourhood: Dufferin Grove Chef and Owner:...
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The trendification of Chinatown: good news or bad for the city’s celebrated “ethnic buffet”?
Last week, the New York Times published a glowing tribute to Toronto and its ethnically diverse food scene. The first-person...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Barrio Coreano, Canoe and George
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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’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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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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