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How actor and comedian Andrew Phung spends a day off in Toronto
“Costco has a way of convincing you that the thing you didn’t know existed five minutes ago is suddenly an essential household purchase”
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Food & Drink
A popular Filipino supper club is getting a permanent home
Kusi is coming to Chinatown
Memoir
“I stumbled into co-founding a mahjong club. Now it’s one of the biggest in the city”
When I moved to Toronto from the UK, my social life was lacking. Mahjong helped me meet friends and brought me closer to my culture
City News
How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money
Business analyst and budding TikTok investment guru Chaeeun Lee hopes to visit 50 countries before she turns 30
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Real Estate News
A building connecting Kensington Market to Chinatown just got a rent decrease
The Kensington Market Community Land Trust has purchased 302 Spadina to help keep the neighbourhood affordable
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bitter Melon, a new spot on Spadina for “Toronto Chinese” small plates and cocktails
Including a Taiwanese take on a Korean corn dog and tteokbokki with an Italian twist
Real Estate News
Charles Pachter’s $10-million legacy museum is in a Chinatown laneway
It includes the artist’s numerous paintings and sculptures of Queen Elizabeth, the CN tower and, of course, moose
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Food & Drink
What’s on the takeout menu at Banh Haus, Chinatown’s new spot for banh mi, vermicelli bowls and Vietnamese iced coffee
Also: a sandwich that uses a Vietnamese doughnut as its vessel
Food & Drink
Inside T&T Supermarket’s new downtown store at College and Spadina
Amenities include live seafood, rare produce, Cantonese barbecue, a bao sandwich station—and more than 10,000 items on the shelves
Food & Drink
Where chef Steve Gonzalez eats pho, tortas and doughnuts in Kensington Market and Chinatown
Four of his favourite spots, and what he orders at each one
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Green Tea, Chinatown’s new place for Hangzhou-style dishes
It's part of the new crop of mainland Chinese chains that have set their expansion sights on the Canadian market
Real Estate News
Rental of the Week: $10,000 per month to live in a renovated Victorian near Kensington Market
See inside a modernized home in one of the city's most eclectic neighbourhoods
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Omai, a new sake and temaki bar in Baldwin Village
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
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Food & Drink
Lunch Lesson: Getting schooled on Hakka Indian cuisine at Yueh Tung
"What you’re tasting is a legacy of war, colonialism, border conflict, unlawful imprisonment and migration"
Food & Drink
“I forgot how much I love this food”: Author Lily Cho explains the joy of the “generic Chinese” restaurant
Corey Mintz learns the power of a good chow mein from author and professor Lily Cho
Food & Drink
Lunch lesson: Getting schooled on noodles by two U of T profs in Chinatown
Corey Mintz gets schooled on noodles by two U of T profs
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Jackpot Chicken Rice, a Hainanese restaurant from the chef of Patois
If you guessed chicken and rice, you wouldn't be wrong
Food & Drink
Introducing: Provo FoodBar, a new place for cocktails and small plates
Ceviche, jambalaya and a whole lotta things on crostini
Food & Drink
Maker Pizza opens in Chinatown
And Parts and Labour's Matty Matheson designed the menu
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Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.5-million house that shows how Chinatown is changing
See inside an updated 19th-century home located steps from the Spadina strip
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Chinatown is getting a restaurant makeover
In Chinatown you can still find butcher shops with mahogany-skinned Peking ducks swinging in the windows and produce stands with...
Food & Drink
Lucky Red reopens as a licensed, late-night snack bar
After Banh Mi Boys co-owner David Chau shut down his Spadina Avenue spot, Lucky Red, last September after just a few months in...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: R&D, Chinatown’s new Alvin Leung and Eric Chong co-production
Name : R&D Neighbourhood: Chinatown Contact: 241 Spadina Ave. , 416-586-1241, rdspadina.com , @RDSpadina Previously: Strada 241...
Food & Drink
Chinatown’s Banh Mi Boys sister shop, Lucky Red, is set to reopen
Lucky Red , the Chinatown bao shop from the Banh Mi Boys team, had all the hype it needed to be a hit. Then—just months after...
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Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’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
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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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 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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