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This fine-dining chef has opened a Mexican restaurant on Harbord
Guests can expect margarita flights and Mexican dishes with local flair
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Food & Drink
Introducing: THR & Co., the new restaurant on Harbord Street from the owners of The Harbord Room
Name: THR & Co. Neighbourhood: University Contact Info: 97 Harbord St., 647-748-7199, thrandco.com, @THRandCo Owners: David Mitton...
Food & Drink
Tati Bistro is closing next month
After nearly six years on Harbord Street, Tati Bistro is winding down. Co-owners Wayne Parent and Whitney Brown made the...
Food & Drink
Smoke BBQ House is reopening with new ownership and a slightly different name (UPDATED)
Smoke BBQ House has shut its doors after only three months on Harbord Street. The southern barbecue restaurant announced the news...
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Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 places to eat
Amid the cocktail swilling and celebrity gawking, eating can be an afterthought during TIFF. Good news: there are plenty of...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the heirloom tomato tartine at the newly renovated DT Bistro
This spring, Harbord Street’s DT Bistro reopened after nearly five months of renovations, unveiling a chic new dining room and a...
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GALLERY: a look at DT Bistro’s chic new renovation and second floor
Now in its seventh year on Harbord, Dessert Trends Bistro closed down on New Year’s Day for extensive renovations. Though the...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the refined decadence of Splendido’s holiday tasting menu
December’s here, and that means cold weather and holiday decadence. Splendido, Harbord Street’s temple of special-occasion...
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Introducing: Le Kensington, the new French bistro from the owners of Loire
Le Kensington Bistro , the second eatery from the owners of Harbord Street’s Loire (one of 2009’s best new restaurants...
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Sam James to celebrate his coffee bar’s second anniversary this Sunday with free lattes for all
Toronto espresso hero Sam James is celebrating his tiny Harbord Street coffee bar's second anniversary this Sunday, when he’ll...
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Food & Drink
Modern comforts: Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on Woodlot and Ici Bistro
Two neighbourhood restaurants serve up light-handed renditions of our rib-sticking favourites The comfort food revolution has...
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Krispy Kreme is open for business at Bathurst and Harbord
Long, long ago, there was a magical presence in Toronto, gracing food courts and office buildings like gleaming, artery-clogging...
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Introducing: Ici Bistro, Harbord Street’s little restaurant that could
Ici Bistro is open for business. No, really. Two years after they signed the lease on 538 Manning Avenue, J.P. Challet and...
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City News
Toronto’s six most memorable neighbourhood naming smackdowns
Toronto: city of neighbourhoods, multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, bureaucracy. These three attributes collide most often...
Food & Drink
J.P. Challet leaves the Windsor Arms (again) to pick up the pieces at Ici Bistro (again)
Master chef J.P. Challet is leaving the Windsor Arms Hotel ’s Prime just five months into his tenure —and nine years after...
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Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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City gives thumbs-down to community pizza nights and fun
First there was the liquor license debacle at Ici Bistro to prevent Harbord Street from turning into Skid Row, then the moratorium...
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J.P. Challet to take over at the Windsor Arms
We hear that George Friedmann of the Windsor Arms has asked local legend J.P. Challet and his team to take over the Yorkville...
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The Harbord Guide: 25 spots that are giving the strip a good name
Once-sleepy Harbord Street leaped into the spotlight last year when it became the setting of Toronto’s latest NIMBY vs. business...
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Ici Bistro gets its liquor licence; Joe Pantalone calls it the “beauty of democracy”
After winning over Annex residents and fighting a protracted battle with various bureaucracies, chef J.P. Challet and his partners...
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Joe Pantalone maintains his tough—and lonely—stand against merlot
Being a city councillor is a tough job—just ask deputy mayor Joe Pantalone . Fresh from killing Ossington’s buzz, he now finds...
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Beaujolais brawl: Will granting a liquor licence to J.P. Challet’s Harbord Street bistro bring down the neighbourhood?
It’s unusual to see a Toronto councillor acting against the wishes of his constituents, especially with an election looming, but...
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Just Opened: Sam James Coffee Bar
The caffeine crowd has kept the on-line forums busy over the past few weeks in anticipation of award-winning barista Sam James' s...
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Splendido re-opens with lower prices and less champagne
Champagne is out and cocktails are in at the newly made-over Splendido, which opened Tuesday for dinner. “Everything but the pea...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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