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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Giulietta, chef Rob Rossi’s Italian follow-up to Bestellen
The new menu is lighter than its meat-first predecessor, and it's full-on Italian
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Food & Drink
Bestellen’s chef and L’Unita’s owner are opening Giulietta, an Italian restaurant
On the menu: Rob Rossi's signature whole suckling pig
Food & Drink
Consumed: What the Harbord Room’s Cory Vitiello ate last week
"I crushed about six red Twizzlers—always red—and some tequila on the rocks"
Food & Drink
Meat and Co.: how restaurants like Yorkville’s opulent NAO are reinventing the steak house
Last fall, I met with five friends for a bachelor party at Barberian’s, that most old-school of steak houses. Little has changed...
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Mother’s Day Brunch 2014: nine very delicious ways to say “I love you, Mom”
Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 11, and Toronto’s best brunch spots are filling up fast. After all, how better to thank the...
Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Splendido, Porzia and Bestellen
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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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Chantecler, Marben and Bestellen
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...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Skin and Bones, Glas Wine Bar and Bestellen
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...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Bestellen, Canoe and Origin Liberty Village
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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Best of the City 2012: four extravagant whole-beast feasts
Catch 744 St. Clair Ave. W., 416-658-0568 Chef Nigel Finley at Catch, St. Clair West’s new sustainable seafood...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 30 to August 5
Monday, July 30 Tuesday, July 31 Wednesday, August 1 Thursday, August 2 Friday, August 3 Saturday, August 4 Sunday, August 5...
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Friday Night Bites: Ruby Watchco, The Grove and Bestellen
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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New reviews: Stock, Banh Mi Boys and Bestellen
A big-ticket steak house, banh mi to queue for and a scenester meat shrine STOCK Trump Hotel, 325 Bay St., 416-637-5550 Most hotel...
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All-Beef Party: Toronto’s 25 best burgers ranked in order of heart-stopping, messy magnificence
Nine years ago, Mark McEwan scandalized Torontonians with his $35 truffled Bymark burger. That was before words like...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
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Introducing: Bestellen, the new College West meat den from Top Chef Canada’s Rob Rossi
The most recent in a slew of west-end spots run by young restaurateurs capitalizing on the affordable rent, Bestellen has finally...
Food & Drink
Rob Rossi’s Bestellen to open, finally, on Friday
It’s been a long road. Rob Rossi, the Top Chef Canada season one finalist, first announced he was leaving his gig as Mercatto’...
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We stopped by for a sneak peek of Bestellen, the College Street work-in-progress of Top Chef Canada runner-up Rob Rossi
When Top Chef Canada contestant Rob Rossi quit his job as Mercatto’ s head chef for “new and exciting adventures,” many...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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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