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Trend We Love: boutique-slash-coffee shops
While an in-store barista may not draw hordes of customers into a store, it can certainly encourage shoppers to linger—and...
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Style
Store Guide: Easy Tiger Goods, a new lifestyle shop and coffee joint on Dundas West
Name: Easy Tiger Goods Sells: Home goods, stationery, grooming products, women’s apparel and accessories, and flowers, plus...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fika, a charming new café in Kensington Market from Victor Barry and Nikki Leigh McKean
Name: FIKA Neighbourhood: Kensington Market Contact Info: 28 Kensington Ave., http://Fika.ca/, @Fikakensington. Owners: Nikki...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons is making a new blend of coffee for the first-time ever
For the first time in the coffee-and-doughnut giant’s near 50-year history, Tim Hortons is creating a new roast. In a...
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Food & Drink
Beloved Riverdale hangout Rooster Coffee House has a second location
The east-end neighbourhood café cherished for its Loïc Gourmet sandwiches, goodies from Café Jules Patisserie and Pilot Coffee...
Food & Drink
A posh new coffee house opens in the Financial District
Dineen Coffee Co. is bringing a little coffee cred to the downtown core, an area otherwise dominated by Starbucks and Tim...
Food & Drink
Starbucks is renaming its Blonde Roast to sound more Canadian
As part of its never-ending quest to lure coffee drinkers away from Timmies, Starbucks has launched a campaign to find a more...
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Food & Drink
Coming Soon to Queen East: The Pink Grapefruit, a health-focused grab-and-go café
Formerly the site of a medical marijuana compassion club, 106 Queen Street East will soon be home to The Pink Grapefruit, a new...
Food & Drink
The Dish Holiday Gift Guide: 12 last-minute finds for food lovers
Buying gifts for foodies gives you an excuse to actually purchase some of the fancy ingredients and beautiful tools you’ve spent...
City News
The List: 10 things physician, undersea explorer and author Joe MacInnis can’t live without
1 | My customized hard hat I co-led an expedition to the Titanic in 1991. Everyone on board needed a hard hat, so I decided as...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons prices go up—but coffee is spared
The usual breakfast and lunch fare at Timmies will now set customers back an extra five to 20 cents to account for increased...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Arrow Café, Dundas West’s newest coffee and ice cream shop
Before it was The Arrow Café, 1164 Dundas St. W. was an accountant’s office. But when childhood friends Robin Eley, Owais Rafiq...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Indian Rice Factory Chai Bar, a new offshoot of the Annex institution (with a great patio)
The Indian Rice Factory has been a fixture in the Annex for over 43 years. Earlier this month, owners Aman Patel and his wife...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons starting to see declining in-store traffic
It looks like there really is a limit to how much coffee and doughnuts the Canadian populace can take: shares of Tim Hortons...
Food & Drink
Ever wonder why Tim Hortons coffee tastes like that? A behind-the-scenes tour of their roasting plant
We’re under no illusions that most Dish readers would rate Tim Hortons coffee up there with what one might expect from, say, a...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 21, because CAMH is Queen West’s hottest address
Over the last decade or so, West Queen West has transformed from actually grungy to artfully grungy, but even as designer pooches...
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Food & Drink
Attention those not yet caffeinated today: Starbucks is giving out coffee for a quarter
Starbucks, the green mermaid overlord of coffee, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in Canada (see the above video...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Sam James Coffee Bar’s new underground outpost in the Path
Back in December, we told you about Sam James’ plans to launch a third location in that downtown warren of chain coffee...
Style
Street Style: 16 looks at Queen Street’s baristas from east to west
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, British coffee bars employed a rule: stick to one type of clientele. Suits hung out with suits...
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The List: 10 things former CIBC insider and doomsday author Jeff Rubin can’t live without
1| My ride It’s a 12-year-old Audi A6 Turbo. I like driving, and I’ve always had a thing for European sport sedans. When they...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons’ new-ish lattes now available iced (whipped cream and caramel shots optional)
For many Tim Hortons devotees, the iced capp ushers in the start of summer. But this year, that iced coffee drink is going to have...
Food & Drink
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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City News
Celebrity Watch: Margaret Atwood is officially everywhere, from Twitter to Rob Ford: The Opera and more
The recent release of Payback , a new feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, confirms it
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Dark Horse owner on what you shouldn’t be looking at in her cafés
— Dark Horse owner Deanna Zunde fills The Grid in on the ground rules for spending time in a coffee shop for their Urban...
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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
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
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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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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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