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What’s on the menu at White Lily Diner, a brunch-and-dinner spot with a Grand Electric chef
Because you can never have enough brunch
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Your salad says it’s local, organic and sustainable—but is it?
"It’s a salad bar—if we were going to have all local food, we’d have to close the restaurant”
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Eight local products made with GTA-sourced ingredients
Once-neglected crops are being harvested in the name of jam, butter, beer and even ink
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Café Belong has adopted Ceili Cottage’s yurt
Toronto's most unique winterized patio is now at the Evergreen Brick Works
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Feast like a cowboy at Evergreen’s Urban Rodeo
This Saturday, the city's food lovers will face a difficult choice: spend the night bidding farewell to the three-year-old Toronto...
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Prep School: Café Belong chef Brad Long on what to make of garlic scapes
Café Belong chef Brad Long was cooking with these curly stems back when they were considered compost. Here, he offers three ways...
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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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Gallery: 30 top Toronto chefs at FoodShare’s annual Recipe for Change fundraiser
The north building at St. Lawrence Market was filled to near-bursting on Thursday as food-loving philanthropists gathered to...
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Gallery: Susur Lee, Michael Stadtländer and other notable Toronto chefs prepare soups of all kinds at Soupstock 2012
An estimated 40,000 soup-seeking revellers and 200 chefs traveled to Woodbine Park last weekend to attend Soupstock 2012, the...
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The Way We Eat Now: how foraging infiltrated fine dining and became a foodie phenomenon
On a late-summer evening, I descended into the Don Valley with 50 well-to-do Torontonians—mostly middle-aged couples in...
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Flavour of the Month: Eight locavore chefs on what to do with their favourite farmers’ market finds
For a few short weeks every year, farmers’ markets are flush with obscure fruits and vegetables you’ll rarely see in grocery...
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The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in May
• Kinton— The owners of the Toronto outposts of Guu opened this summer’s first new ramen bar (there are others on the...
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Brad Long to shutter Veritas; Betty’s owners to move in
After almost five years, chef Brad Long is quietly handing over Veritas, his “local fare” restaurant on King Street East, to...
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Gallery: the fifth annual Brewers Plate brought Ontario craft brewers together with Toronto chefs
On Wednesday, 450 Torontonians gathered at Roy Thomson Hall for the fifth annual Brewers Plate, a fundraiser that celebrates the...
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Gallery: This year’s Recipe for Change raised over $50,000 for FoodShare—and served up some impressive plates
Last Thursday, 400 Torontonians gathered at St. Lawrence Market for Recipe for Change , the annual FoodShare fundraiser, which...
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Brad Long nabs Ottawa’s Charlotte Langley to run the kitchen at Café Belong
Ottawa chef Charlotte Langley has got talent, looks and a sailor’s mouth. Lucky for us, she’s also moving to Toronto. The...
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This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond
Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this...
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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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New Reviews: Café Belong, Elle M’a Dit and Estiatorio Volos
Farmers’ market fine dining at the Brick Works, stylish Greek food downtown and a proper bistro on Baldwin CAFÉ BELONG 550...
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Introducing: Café Belong, Brad Long’s new restaurant at the Brick Works
After almost half a year of delays, Brad Long ’ s Café Belong finally opened at the Evergreen Brick Works on Saturday...
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Toronto Taste 2011: We get the latest news from top chefs and restaurateurs from Woodlot, Buca, Nota Bene, O&B and many more
Two thousand of Toronto’s food lovers and makers gathered at the ROM on Sunday for the 21st edition of Toronto Taste . The...
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Two foodie fundraisers set to benefit the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month
There’s a reason food and fundraisers go hand in hand: what better way to encourage patrons and sponsors to empty their wallets...
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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
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Bloor West Village Guide: our 20 favourite places between High Park and the Humber
Though solidly yuppified, this erstwhile eastern European enclave has held on to its tradition of thriving small...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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