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Food & Drink
A snapshot of Sap, O&B’s Canadian comfort food restaurant
Executive chef Ryan Lister curates a colourful menu driven by local and seasonal ingredients
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Store Guide: North Standard Trading Post, a new Canadiana-themed boutique in Parkdale
Name: North Standard Trading Post Sells: Clothing, shoes, and accessories for men, women, and kids; items for the home; grooming...
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The Drake General Store opens a location at Yonge and Eglinton
The Drake General Store has shuttered its Rosedale location and opened a new store 27 blocks north, at 2607 Yonge Street. The...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hitch, a cozy new Leslieville bar named for an irascible literary gadfly
Name: Hitch (yes, after writer and noted drinker Christopher Hitchens ) Neighborhood: Leslieville Contact info: 1216 Queen...
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Toca relaunches with a new head chef and a new menu (and without Tom Brodi)
The Ritz-Carlton Toronto announced yesterday that Montreal-born and European-trained Gihen Zitouni is the new chef de cuisine at...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Riverside Public House, a new Queen East bar with Dustin Gallagher in the kitchen
When Nav Sangha (Wrongbar, The Great Hall) took over the former Blue Moon Pub at Queen and Broadview, the first thing he did was...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Real Estate News
Cottage of the Week: $15 million for an over-the-top lumberjack’s paradise in Muskoka
ADDRESS: 1100 Delbrooke Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Lake of Bays, Muskoka AGENT: Michael Constable , Sotheby’s International Realty...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best five restaurants to go for a business lunch
The top five spots to break bread, dent the expense account and sign a deal while you’re at it (Image: Aria’s red wine–cured...
Food & Drink
Michael Potters keeps it rustic at Hockley Valley’s new restaurant Cabin
One-time Torontonian Michael Potters has been announced as the chef at Cabin, a new upscale restaurant at Orangeville’s Hockley...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a luxe take on a classic sandwich at a new King West TIFF hub
This Thursday marks the start of TIFF, with its usual flurry of stars. Celeb hunters hoping to avoid the red carpet crush should...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bannock, Oliver and Bonacini’s new café and restaurant at The Bay’s flagship store
It’s no secret that Hudson’s Bay Co. has undergone some big changes in recent years. The retailer’s revitalization project...
Culture
Upcoming Heffel auction to feature Group of Seven, Emily Carr, Paul-Émile Borduas and more
Heffel Fine Art Auction House is offering up a healthy dose of Canadiana with its latest—and potentially...
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Philip Sparks’s Canadiana wows—again—as Rogue Fashion Week kicks off
Philip Sparks kicked off Rogue Fashion Week last night at the Burroughes Building with a fall/winter collection of classic duffle...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Canoe, the Oliver and Bonacini flagship revamped
After 16 years at the top, Canoe , one of the city’s culinary beacons, closed its doors on New Year’s Day for a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Toca, refined Canadiana at the Ritz-Carlton
Back in October, we reported that chef Tom Brodi (formerly of Canoe , North 44 and Gramercy Tavern in New York, under Tom...
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Introducing: the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto’s newest five-star hotel
The glamorous new Ritz-Carlton Toronto is open for business, nearly five years after its groundbreaking in November 2006. The...
Food & Drink
A first glimpse inside the renovated Canoe
Last December we reported that Canoe would be closing up shop for a million-dollar facelift. Unlike most construction projects in...
Food & Drink
More Canadiana! The inside details on Canoe’s forthcoming make-over
Fourteen years after first opening, Canoe is closing its door to undertake a major renovation starting New Year’s Day. The...
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Culture
The swag series: George Stroumboulopoulos’s celeb guests take ketchup chips and Clamato back to the U.S.
What it is: Guests of Strombo’ s new show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, get their pick of some sweet swag in the Made in...
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The Thing: the oxymoronic appeal of Canadiana cool
In Toronto, we’ve been fashioning chandeliers from antlers and cherishing Cowichan sweaters for years. It took the Vancouver...
Today in Toronto: McMichael Canadian Art Collection
McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Touching the artwork—usually a huge no-no—is perfectly acceptable during the gallery’s...
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Best of the City 2010: Toronto’s top shopping
Men’s madras shirt Jonathan and Olivia 49 Ossington Ave., 416-849-5956 Madras is the hot new plaid, in light organic cotton and...
Style
Taking Stock: five Toronto trendsetters tell us what they can’t live without
We talked to five Toronto trendsetters from the fashion, art and design worlds who make a living selling style. Here, an inventory...
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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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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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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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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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