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Hooked
Food & Drink
“The sad truth is that Kensington Market isn’t healthy anymore”: Why this neighbourhood fishmonger is closing up shop
Kristin Donovan, co-owner of Hooked, on leaving a neighbourhood she loves
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Sailor’s Fish and Chips, a new takeout counter inside Hooked on Danforth
Unsurprisingly, the city's seafood experts make some pretty good snacks
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best fishmongers
These experts on everything piscine carry only the freshest of fish
Food & Drink
A breakdown of Toronto-based grocery delivery services
How to get everything from local produce to freshly baked croissants delivered to your doorstep
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s 10 best cooking classes
Have fun, learn stuff, eat tons: a schmoozy foodie’s guide to the city’s best cooking classes
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Kate Taylor Martin, the owner of Nutbar, Summerhill’s spot for superfoods
A few of the things it's stocked with: sauerkraut, nutritional yeast, organic burritos and Häagen-Dazs
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Nick Liu, the executive chef of DaiLo and Little DaiLo
A few of the things it's stocked with: Chef Boyardee ravioli, instant noodles and a whole lotta vodka
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Inside the kitchen of Brandon Olsen and Sarah Keenlyside, the owners of La Banane and CXBO
Just a few of the things it's stocked with: chocolate, foie gras, butter and a bowl of Dungeness crabs
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of chef and restaurateur Grant van Gameren
A few of the things it's stocked with: meat, canned fish and lots of mescal
Food & Drink
10 tasty Valentine’s Day gifts by the dozen that are way better than roses
Because flowers are nice—but you can't eat them
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Ten dishes you missed at What’s on the Table (and where you can still find them)
A look at The Stop's annual all-you-can-eat fundraiser to fight hunger
Food & Drink
Twelve dishes at What’s on the Table (and where you can still find them)
For those who missed The Stop's annual event,12 of the dishes served can still be found on the menus of the restaurants that created them
Food & Drink
The high price of cheap shrimp: where restaurants get their prawns from and why you should care
We’ve gradually come to care about how our beef is raised, who stitches together our clothes and the carbon footprint of our...
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Recipe: butter-poached lobster from the virtuous fishmongers at Hooked
PREP TIME: 45 minutes COOK TIME: 30 minutes Serves 4 BUTTER POACHED LOBSTER Coarse sea salt 6 lbs live lobster, about 4...
Food & Drink
Reason to Love Toronto: because there’s a new crop of old-fashioned food shops in Kensington
A decade after “locavore” and “foodie” entered the lexicon, Toronto has reached a fever pitch of $10 jams infused with...
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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Trend We Love: adorable restaurant power couples
A surprising number of buzzy new restaurants have opened in recent years that are owned or operated by married couples—and in...
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GALLERY: The Dinner Party, a celebration of women in the kitchen from some of Toronto’s top female chefs
Restaurant kitchens can be macho, male-dominated places. So, on Monday night, 60 guests gathered at The Great Hall to celebrate...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2012: Toronto’s top tacos, brunch, pampering service, pickling classes and more
Splendido 88 Harbord St., 416-929-7788 Even if a diner wheezed up to Splendido’s Harbord Street door in a beat-up...
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Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 20 to 26
Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 22 Thursday, August 23 Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Sunday, August...
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Introducing: Glas Wine Bar, Leslieville’s latest spot for a drink and a local, seasonal bite
After two and a half years, Leslieville’s Frankly Eatery, known for its Indo-Canadian fusion brunches, threw in the...
Food & Drink
Hooked set to take over Sanagan’s old Kensington Market space later this summer
Since it opened shop in Leslieville last year, home cooks and chefs alike have lauded Hooked for its resolutely sustainable...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: The Lox and Guac from The Bellevue’s new lunch menu
The Bellevue provides a rare midday patio escape that’s not jam-packed by 12:05. Tucked in a quiet corner in Kensington...
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Introducing: Leslieville Pumps, Toronto’s only barbecue joint that’s also a gas station
Bringing something novel to jaded Torontonians is a pretty tall order. By the looks of it, though, that’s just what brothers...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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