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Caroline Aksich

Caroline Aksich, a National Magazine Award recipient, is an ex-Montrealer who writes about Toronto’s ever-evolving food scene, real estate and culture for Toronto Life, Fodor’s, Designlines, Canadian Business, Glory Media and Post City. Her work ranges from features on octopus-hunting in the Adriatic to celebrity profiles.

Latest from Caroline Aksich

A new Lagree studio has opened at the Well—and it’s the largest of its kind in the world

A new Lagree studio has opened at the Well—and it’s the largest of its kind in the world

It’s the latest addition to the Sweat and Tonic fitness empire

This new Italian restaurant in the Financial District is a love letter to Florence

This new Italian restaurant in the Financial District is a love letter to Florence

Florin serves Tuscan classics including Flintstone-style Florentine steaks

You don't need to be a guest at 1 Hotel to access the rooftop pool this summer

You don’t need to be a guest at 1 Hotel to access the rooftop pool this summer

All you need is a Sun Club reservation and a cool $750

Seven of Toronto's hottest new tasting menus

Seven of Toronto’s hottest new tasting menus

And why—even in this economy—they’re still some of the hardest-to-land reservations

An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York

An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York

Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles

Inside the outrageously luxurious Nobu Hotel Toronto

Inside the outrageously luxurious Nobu Hotel Toronto

Featuring in-room wellness treatments, a private restaurant and a casual house G-Wagon

"We have less money here but more life": Why this Toronto chef moved to Italy—and how it’s going

“We have less money here but more life”: Why this Toronto chef moved to Italy—and how it’s going

Former Crosley’s chef Joachim Hayward is now living la dolce vita

What's on the menu at La Boulangerie Dundas, a French bakery and bistro from chef J.P. Challet

What’s on the menu at La Boulangerie Dundas, a French bakery and bistro from chef J.P. Challet

Including breakfast sandwiches, truffle mac and cheese, and lobster bisque

Five Toronto restaurants bringing back the power lunch

Five Toronto restaurants bringing back the power lunch

Lingering midday menus have returned, including a five-course feast with wine pairings and a choose-your-own Spanish adventure

"No regrets at all": Gusto 54 Group's Janet Zuccarini on what it’s like to run a restaurant in the US right now

“No regrets at all”: Gusto 54 Group’s Janet Zuccarini on what it’s like to run a restaurant in the US right now

Part of a new series featuring Toronto restaurateurs with businesses south of the border

“I immediately knew it would complicate things”: Reyna owner Nicki Laborie on what it’s like to run a restaurant in the US right now

Part of a new series featuring Toronto restaurateurs with businesses south of the border

What's on the menu at Pii Nong, a 10,000-square-foot Thai restaurant, market and massage parlour

What’s on the menu at Pii Nong, a 10,000-square-foot Thai restaurant, market and massage parlour

Including tropical cocktails, an ocean’s worth of seafood and teddy bear–shaped frozen tea

"I restored an 1840s heritage building in Elora and turned it into a boutique hotel"

“I restored an 1840s heritage building in Elora and turned it into a boutique hotel”

When Kat Florence found out that the historic cinema in her hometown was under threat from developers, she decided to act

Sort-of Secret: That Nonna Life, an event series celebrating Italian-Canadian culture

Sort-of Secret: That Nonna Life, an event series celebrating Italian-Canadian culture

It’s a love letter to Italian grandmothers

What's on the menu at Lardo, an Italian alimentari turned sit-down restaurant

What’s on the menu at Lardo, an Italian alimentari turned sit-down restaurant

Including a very impressive porchetta plate

Inside Sweat and Tonic's new location at the Well

Inside Sweat and Tonic’s new location at the Well

The 25,000-square-foot wellness hub offers fitness, biohacking, injectables, massages, a three-lane saltwater lap pool and a co-working area

Where Taylor Swift fans can eat in Toronto during the Eras Tour

Where Taylor Swift fans can eat in Toronto during the Eras Tour

Ten song-inspired bars, cafés and restaurants within walking distance of the Rogers Centre

"My family lost everything bootlegging beer in the 1930s. I revived our legacy with Sleeman Breweries"

“My family lost everything bootlegging beer in the 1930s. I revived our legacy with Sleeman Breweries”

John Sleeman wasn’t all that interested in brewing—until he learned that his ancestors sold beer to Al Capone

Sort-of Secret: Yan Dining Room, chef Eva Chin’s new neo-Chinese dinner series at Hong Shing

Sort-of Secret: Yan Dining Room, chef Eva Chin’s new neo-Chinese dinner series at Hong Shing

“Every meal should feel like a celebration—like I’m welcoming you into my home for a feast”

Inside Newmarket's Postmark Hotel, a new boutique hotel in an old post office

Inside Newmarket’s Postmark Hotel, a new boutique hotel in an old post office

With two restaurants, 55 unique guest rooms and plenty of postal-themed art

What's on the menu at Overlea, the rooftop restaurant of Newmarket's Postmark Hotel

What’s on the menu at Overlea, the rooftop restaurant of Newmarket’s Postmark Hotel

It’s from the team behind both Gladstone House and the Broadview Hotel

What's on the menu at Nobu Toronto, the luxury restaurant's first Canadian location

What’s on the menu at Nobu Toronto, the luxury restaurant’s first Canadian location

Including the Kardashian-approved lychee martini

Inside the kitchen of John Sleeman, founder of Sleeman Breweries

Inside the kitchen of John Sleeman, founder of Sleeman Breweries

Featuring vintage fridges, imported butter and an eye-popping booze collection

Where to Eat Late in Toronto: A night owl’s guide to dining out after last call

Where to Eat Late in Toronto: A night owl’s guide to dining out after last call

Featuring scratch-made tacos, Sichuan noodles, ’60s-style diner fare and more of the city’s best late-night eats

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Best New Restaurants

Toronto Life ’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

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

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

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

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

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

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

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

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

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

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

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

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

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

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

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

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

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

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

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

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

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

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

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

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

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

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

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

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

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

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

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!”

Just Listed

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

Guelph is having a moment