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Food & Drink
“FOMO is real”: Why one-night-only restaurant collaborations are taking over Toronto
We spoke with five chefs and restaurateurs about the trend that’s sweeping the city
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Food & Drink
This popular Toronto restaurant is rolling back its menu prices and partying like it’s 2014
That means $12 cocktails and oysters by the half-dozen
Food & Drink
This new King West snack bar is from the team behind a popular barbecue joint
Carbon Snack Bar is now open in what was once Global Village Backpackers
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Yannick Bigourdan, owner of Lucie and the Carbon Bar
Featuring a fancy mustard collection, canned wine and century-old glassware
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Notte, a St. Lawrence cocktail lounge serving Italian drinks and snacks until 2 a.m.
Including tartare-stuffed cannoli
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Lucie, the Financial District’s new spot for fancy French food
It’s the kind of place that has a champagne cart
Food & Drink
Why Canoe’s wild rabbit cannelloni is one of Toronto’s most essential dishes
We're asking some of the city’s top food folks about their favourite T.O. meals
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What’s on the menu at Amano, a sit-down Italian restaurant in the newly renovated Union Station
It's the first full-service spot to open in the transit hub
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Union Chicken, a new poultry palace from the owner of the Carbon Bar
Rotisserie chicken, fried chicken, Nashville hot chicken—lots of chicken
Style
Toronto’s Best Dressed: Emmanuel Farré, Loding’s shoe specialist
The shoe designer on his style sense and how Canadian men need to up their footwear game
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Food & Drink
Union Station is getting rotisserie chicken, a Burger’s Priest, and a huge food market
Union Station is set to become a dining destination instead of an afterthought—no offence, Cinnabon. Not only are Mill Street...
Spotted: Reese Witherspoon at Nota Bene
Shinan Govani tweeted Sunday night that Reese Witherspoon had been spotted enjoying an informal dinner at Nota Bene. There's been...
Style
Store Guide: Loding, an intimate menswear shop that’s all about simplicity
Name: Loding Sells: Men's shoes, shirts, ties, belts, socks and cashmere Contact info: 133 Avenue Rd., 416-962-0133, loding.ca...
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Nota Bene team to open new restaurant at Queen and Church
Yesterday evening, Shinan Govani broke the news that the team behind Nota Bene Yannick Bigourdan, Franco Prevedello and chef David...
Food & Drink
When it comes to making restaurant reservations, is OpenTable a friend or foe?
From a customer’s perspective, OpenTable might seem like the perfect dovetailing of the Internet and dining: restaurant...
Food & Drink
We ask the top chefs at Toronto Taste what’s in store at George, Splendido, Scaramouche and the rest of the city’s hot restaurants
This past Sunday marked the 20 anniversary of Toronto Taste, the annual event that unites Toronto’s food lovers and food makers...
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Splendido changes ownership but stays in the “family”
Splendido is changing hands. The star-powered duo that revived the powerhouse Harbord Street restaurant—proprietor Yannick...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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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