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Little Portugal loses Essen
Toronto’s only purveyor of Jewish ramen , Essen , has closed. Owner and chef Leor Zimerman first opened Quinta , the...
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Geraldine, Parkdale’s favourite absinthe spot, is no more
When the Parkdale restaurant Geraldine opened in the summer of 2013, it immediately commanded notice. It was an elegant throwback...
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The Atlantic dries up
After five years, and almost as many conceptual changes, The Atlantic has closed. When it opened on Dundas West in 2010, it...
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Crush Wine Bar gets squeezed out
Since it opened in 2002, Crush Wine Bar has been a King West fixture, but its new owners clearly weren't such big fans: it's now...
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Le Ti Colibri leaves Kensington Market
With rents rising and condos encroaching, Kensington Market’s patchwork of international shops, bodegas and restaurants is...
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Table 17 is set to close next month
After seven years of service, Table 17 is closing. The popular Riverside restaurant will serve its last meals on July 11. Owner...
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St. Clair West seafood spot Catch has gone fishin’
The restaurant that introduced Toronto to The Gout—a whole, oyster-stuffed trout roasted inside a baby goat—has...
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Swan Restaurant goes under
Queen West's Swan Restaurant , open since 1997, will no longer cure hangovers with its caesars and smoked trout eggs Benny. Owner...
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This End Up goes down
Dundas West sandwich shop and cocktail bar This End Up , popular for its secret sauce–laced burgers on sesame-seed buns, will...
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Marky and Sparky’s gets smoked out of the Junction
No longer will the intersection of Runnymede and Annette smell of hickory smoke: the co-owner of Marky and Sparky's Smokehouse...
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Rosedale loses Le Petit Castor
Le Petit Castor , a midtown restaurant that was half pub, half club, quietly closed last weekend. Open since 2008, the one-time...
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Gilead Café and Wine Bar is closing next month (but if anyone wants to keep it open, it’s for sale)
On Thursday, Jamie Kennedy announced through a tweet that Gilead Café and Wine Bar , his cozy bistro hidden down a Corktown...
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The Happy Hooker goes belly-up
The Happy Hooker , Dundas West's fish-focused taqueria that opened two years ago during the city's taco-craze, has flopped. The...
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Addis Ababa is having landlord problems again
For the second time in just over a year , Addis Ababa has been forced to close. In December 2013, bailiffs served the longstanding...
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Vita Sociale gets the boot
It was less than two years ago that Centro , a fine-dining destination, rebranded itself as the pizza-and-pasta-focused Vita...
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It’s curtains for Hudson Kitchen
It's a wrap for a Dundas West restaurant that made quite the entrance into Toronto's dining scene. The first guests to sample chef...
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Daiter’s Fresh Market, uptown’s go-to Jewish grocer, is closing up shop this spring
After decades in the blintz business, Daiter's Fresh Market , the much-loved deli on Bathurst, will close its doors for good on...
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RIP Ortolan, the pioneering restaurant on Bloor West
When Ortolan opened in 2011, its quiet seasonal cooking stood out on a strip of Bloor West known for its men's clubs and discount...
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The Grove will serve its final meals on November 15
It takes more than great reviews, interesting food and prestigious awards to keep a restaurant running these days, it would...
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Dundas West loses its all-hummus restaurant
Anyone who zoomed through Trinity Bellwoods on the 505 streetcar this morning may have noticed the papered-up windows at...
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Ursa on Queen West is closing (or rather, hibernating)
Jacob Sharkey Pearce, co-owner and chef of Ursa, announced on Facebook today that his high-concept Canadian kitchen will be...
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So Long, Red Tea Box
Queen West residents will soon have one less window to gawk at. Red Tea Box opened 14 years ago near the corner of Queen and...
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Mount Pleasant chipperie closes after 64 years
When Roly and Marion Johnston opened Penrose Fish and Chips near the corner of Mount Pleasant and Manor roads, Louis St. Laurent...
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Closing time for Red Sauce?
The Italian sandwich shop at College and Clinton—formerly fine-dining restaurant Acadia—appears to have shut its doors after...
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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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