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Lai Wah Heen
Food & Drink
Lai Wah Heen is reopening in the same location but with new owners and chefs
After two years, the fine-dining dim sum restaurant is back
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Food & Drink
Where Lai Wah Heen chef and owner Canson Tsang gets to-go noodle dishes and steak dinners
We’re asking Toronto chefs and restaurateurs which takeout dishes have been getting them through the pandemic
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants doing Lunar New Year dinners for takeout and delivery
Happy Year of the Ox
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants offering fancy food for takeout and delivery
For when pizza and wings won’t cut it
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best Chinese restaurants
Our favourite places for dim sum, barbecue pork and Peking duck
Food & Drink
The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
Food & Drink
Lunch Lesson: five essential dishes that tell the story of Toronto’s Chinatown
From shrimp with lobster sauce to Peking duck
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Food & Drink
Chinese New Year Dinners: seven delicious spots to ring in the Year of the Horse
This weekend, Chinese New Year will usher in the Year of the Horse , and families all over the GTA will engage in raucous...
Food & Drink
Lai Wah Heen will close after Valentine’s Day—and hopefully reopen two weeks later
When Metropolitan Hotels announced the sale of the Metropolitan Hotel Toronto to the Bayview Hospitality Group last week, many...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for September 3 to 9
Monday September 3 Tuesday September 4 Wednesday September 5 Thursday September 6 Friday September 7 Saturday September 8 Sunday...
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Culture
At A Dangerous Method’s party at Soho House, A-list celebrities outnumbered the common folk
The sheer abundance of A-listers at A Dangerous Method ’s party at Soho House put celeb gossip mongers on overload, and by 2:30...
Food & Drink
Midtown’s Lai Toh Heen to close in September
Metropolitan Hotels put out a press release yesterday afternoon announcing that Lai Toh Heen, the cheaper Davisville cousin of...
Food & Drink
11 best bets for Summerlicious 2011: our chief critic Chris Nuttall-Smith makes his picks
Now in its ninth season, the city-run ’Licious phenomenon (there are both summer and winter incarnations, in case you’ve been...
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Food & Drink
Good Stuff Cheap: nine of the city’s best foods for under $6
A few bucks won’t fulfill your caviar dreams—if it does, you need to dream bigger—but it’s possible to taste the best of...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Lai Wah Heen
This legendary haute Chinese kitchen delivers a full—and fully delicious—dim sum experience in less than an hour The place:...
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Myth-busting study reveals that western wine can actually taste good with Chinese food
Drinking wine with Chinese food has always been a bit like wearing Kanye West shutter shades : more about fashion than...
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Decoding the real and imagined T.O. restaurants in Shinan Govani’s new novel
Food & Drink
Food Wars: Montreal 14, Toronto 1
We want Terrence Henry ’s job. The Atlantic has asked him to explore North America in search of our continent’s best...
Food & Drink
1,000 Tastes takes over Yorkville
While many foodies went to Yorkville’s Toronto Taste last weekend, others gathered at Harbourfront for 1,000 Tastes of...
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Maybe 36 hours is not enough time to experience Toronto
This past Sunday, Toronto was the subject of The New York Times' 36 Hours column—this is Hogtown’s second treatment in the...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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