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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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An iconic Toronto barbecue spot is launching Sunday brunch
Including tiered towers stacked with smoked meat, pancakes, and chicken and waffles
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Pitmaster Andrew Golden breaks down a platter from Golden Horseshoe Barbecue
A taste of Texas has landed in Seaton Village
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A barbecue pop-up with a cult following is getting a permanent home in Scarborough
Crosstown Craft BBQ is bringing its Texas-style smoked meats to the Golden Mile
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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
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Toronto’s newest barbecue joint is already drawing crowds
Golden Horseshoe Barbecue went from a pop-up to a restaurant in less than two years
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Sort-of Secret: Smoked and Smashed, a 500-square-foot barbecue spot in Vaughan
Think Montreal smoked meat sandwiches and 30-day dry-aged smash burgers
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What’s on the menu at Takja BBQ House, a Korean barbecue restaurant unlike any other in Toronto
This is no DIY affair
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What’s on the menu at Piggy’s Island, a Korean barbecue restaurant in Thornhill that bounced back from a devastating fire
After nearly three years, the family-run spot is finally back in business
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Sort-of Secret: Golden Horseshoe BBQ, a new pop-up attracting crowds with Texas-style barbecue
Pitmaster Andrew Golden and his sous-chef mom are bringing barbecue to the city’s breweries
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Destination Dining: Top-notch barbecue in Muskoka from two Toronto fine-dining chefs
We're hitting the road and highlighting road-trip-worthy eats across the province
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Toronto restaurants and stores selling boxes filled with everything you need for a backyard barbecue
The only thing you need to provide is the grill
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Six of Toronto’s best barbecue joints
Our picks for loading up on brisket, ribs and pulled pork
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What’s on the menu at Smoke Bar and Kitchen, an unconventional barbecue joint on Queen West
Cauliflower steak, smoked watermelon and gochujang ribs
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How Beach Hill Smokehouse makes its over-the-top brisket sandwich
We went inside the east-end smokehouse to see how The Austin comes together
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What’s on the menu at Beauty Barbecue & Smokehouse, Oliver and Bonacini’s new spot in North York
Bayview Village: Now with more barbecue
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The Pitmaster’s Feast is the Toronto barbecue event of the summer, and it just got even better
Toronto Life, Longo's and The Carbon Bar are teaming up for one gut-busting gathering
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Norman Hardie now has a wood-burning smoker to go with his winery’s renowed pizza oven
And it's got a Toronto connection
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What’s on the menu at the BBQ Eats Festival, a smoke-scented showcase of Toronto’s international barbecue scene
This city boasts a powerful assembly of smoking and grilling styles from around the world
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What’s on the menu at Smoke Signals Bar-B-Q, a new smokehouse that serves Frito Pie
Frito Pie = corn chips topped with a tasty mess of meat and cheese
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Who’s lining up for Adamson Barbecue at 10:30 on a weekday morning?
Inconvenient hours are no obstacle for these meatheads
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What’s on the menu at Cherry Street Bar-B-Que, a massive new smokehouse
Coming soon: Sunday pig roasts
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What’s on the menu at J&J Bar-B-Que, a new Texas-style smokehouse
Including a sausage stuffed with macaroni and cheese
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Toronto’s best new barbecue joints
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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