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Whisky
Food & Drink
A new Japanese whisky bar is bringing cocktail-based omakase to Toronto
Mizunara follows a drinks-first philosophy
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Food & Drink
Super fizzy and ice cold, highballs are an exercise in simplicity
Featuring spirit ideas and bar recommendations for the city’s most understated sippers
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Comma, a Korean restaurant on Queen West serving raw marinated crab
And pairing it with scotch whisky
TL Insider
What went down at TL Insider’s whisky and food pairing at Stock T.C
The unique tasting menu was inspired by The Glenlivet 14-Year-Old
Created for
The Glenlivet
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Food & Drink
The best bottles of Irish whiskey at the LCBO
Eleven great buys just in time for St. Patrick's Day
Food & Drink
Boxcar Social is more than a café. It’s a shrine to scotch whisky
Owners of the coffee-and-booze bar are cracking the fusty world of single malts wide open
Food & Drink
Globe-Trotting Whiskies: fermented grain mashes from everywhere but Scotland
Everyone knows that Scotland produces some of the best whisky on the planet, but the British isle isn’t the only country making...
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Food & Drink
Today in Toronto: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Die Fledermaus and more
Anne-Sophie Mutter Known as much for her commitment to contemporary music as for her haute couture sleeveless gowns (they free her...
Food & Drink
Why whiskey could be the new bacon (parental discretion advised)
Remember your last bourbon sour? Well, we hope you savoured it, because the surge of brown spirit–based drinks might well be on...
Food & Drink
Introducing: SpiritHouse, King West’s new home for cocktail nerds
SpiritHouse, which opened last week, aims to bring a little cocktail cred to King West, a neighbourhood that’s often better...
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Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Still Waters now selling small-batch vodka out of its Concord distillery (with whisky on the way in a few years)
Every now and then, a lovely little crack opens up in Ontario’s booze monopoly: a brewpub here, a wine kiosk inside a grocery...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Ace, a classic Roncesvalles diner reborn
For almost two decades, the Ace Chinese Restaurant on Roncesvalles has been shuttered. This spring, however, Maggie Ruhl (co-owner...
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City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from runway panache to butternut squash
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
Food & Drink
Whisky in a can: what will they think of next?
It’s been 76 years since the humble metal can made its debut as a beer receptacle— today marks the anniversary...
Food & Drink
The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Food & Drink
Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
Food & Drink
The world’s best whisky, Circa on brink of bankruptcy, the first lab-grown pork
• Since before Circa even opened in 2007, club watchers wondered endlessly if Peter Gatien' s enormous party palace could...
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Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano go spatula to spatula in Liberty Village booze-off
Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is staging a battle (Crown) royal tomorrow. House chef Tyler Cunningham and Frank Romano (of Far Niente...
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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
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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!”
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