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Toronto’s best afternoon tea experiences
Including classic services, dim sum and teapot cocktails
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The best Toronto restaurants that double as affordable wedding venues
Whether you favour slightly surreal or minimalist decor, these venues may save you some scratch
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Inside the kitchen of Solomon Mason, executive chef at Auberge du Pommier
Stocked with a pieced-together pasta maker, fancy Dijon and three different coffee makers
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Inside the kitchen of Malcolm Campbell, Auberge du Pommier’s chef de cuisine
A few of the things it's stocked with: sourdough starter, homemade jam and a whole lotta proteins
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Toronto’s best French restaurants
Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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Inside the kitchen of Canoe and Auberge du Pommier chef John Horne
Screech, moose meat and an original Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
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How Canoe celebrated its 20th anniversary
The restaurant welcomed back past chefs and front-of-house staff to work with the current crew for a one-night-only tasting menu
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Course correction: At his audacious new restaurant, Alo, Patrick Kriss revives the sullied art of the tasting menu
The new restaurant at Queen and Spadina is the best to open in the city this year—in many years, in fact.
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Fifteen of the city’s most insane caesars
Every good Canadian worth his or her celery salt knows that the sodium-packed caesar is our national cocktail, and this year the...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: Shared Meals
Foie gras–stuffed chicken, porterhouse steak and whole suckling pig are the new extravagant norm There were six of us up against...
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The Top Food Trends and Who Does Them Best: French Cuisine
It’s time to rediscover buttery, sublime Gallic cooking Traditional French restaurants never went away, but they certainly lost...
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Must-Try: Auberge du Pommier’s emerald-green frog leg tempura
Among Gallic delicacies, frog legs haven’t had the same staying power as steak frites and duck confit. Marc St. Jacques, the...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at One, Auberge du Pommier and Pizzeria Libretto
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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Wedding Guide: the best catering companies in Toronto
À la Carte Kitchen 2 Thorncliffe Park Dr. (at Overlea Blvd.), Unit 43, 416-971-4068 Founders Simon Kattar (a chef) and Brian King...
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Trend We Love: freebies with the bill
Nothing takes the sting out of a hefty bill like a plate of treats on the house. Below, four places that soothed our end-of-meal...
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Winterlicious 2013 Last Call: the scoop on the hot restaurants that still have tables available
Winterlicious ends on Thursday, but not before the dramatic final push, during which diners inundate their favourite ’licious...
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10 most romantic Toronto restaurants—good for everything from popping the question to illicit affairs
Whether you’re hoping to impress a new flame or celebrate with a long-time lover, the right restaurant can be the difference...
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Winterlicious 2013: our food editor picks 10 ideal meals from this year’s list
Winterlicious is upon us again, with restaurants serving three-course prix fixe dinners for $25, $35 or $45. The roster doesn’t...
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Cold Comfort: 11 winter patios for Toronto’s class of dedicated outdoor diners
Toronto’s love of patios is a curious, twisted thing. Even when the day’s high is minus-something-awful and snow blankets the...
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Momofuku Fever: we review David Chang’s new four-in-one mega-restaurant
David Chang’s new complex on University Avenue—three restaurants and a bar—puts a Toronto spin on a New York phenomenon In...
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Friday Night Bites: Chiado, Grace and Auberge du Pommier
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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More Momofuku Toronto details trickle out
No, Toronto’s Momofuku outposts are still not open (and it looks like the projected August opening date may not happen...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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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
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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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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
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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
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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
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