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Real Estate News
The Chase: This couple thought they’d be renters for life. Then the market shifted in their favour
For six years, Dylan and Matt had been happily renting a two-bedroom apartment in Little Italy. They weren’t looking to buy, but when interest rate hikes put an end to bidding wars, they seized the opportunity
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Food & Drink
This is Toronto’s hottest new destination for steak sandwiches
Bear Steak Sandwiches has been attracting lineups since it opened in November
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at La Bella Sangweech, a new place for stacked Italian sandwiches in Little Italy
Mortadella for president!
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Contrada, Little Italy’s unconventional new Italian kitchen
Including a sweet-and-savoury roasted parsnip panna cotta
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.6 million for a quaint duplex located at one of Little Italy’s busiest intersections
At 1,900 square feet, this semi comes with four floors, a jewel-box staircase, a main suite that looks like a tent and a courtyard out back
Real Estate News
Rental of the Week: $5,400 for a Little Italy Victorian with a rooftop terrace peering above the trees
At 1,200 square feet, the unit has walnut all over, plenty of exposed brick, a wine fridge and a huge main suite
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bottega Volo, Bar Volo’s one-stop shop inside the Royal Theatre—now with sandwiches, cocktails and a patio
Best theatre concession stand ever
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Lardo, Little Italy’s new spot for Italian groceries, sandwiches and wine
And coming soon: dinner service
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Casa Paco, chef Rob Bragagnolo’s new Spanish restaurant and bar in Little Italy
Two words: paella Sundays
Real Estate News
Price Check: What can buyers get for $1 million and under?
How about a renovated freehold townhome in Moss Park, a century-home fixer-upper in Little Italy or a shiny condo in Swansea overlooking the lake?
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Food & Drink
“It was time to come home”: After Banknote Bar was booted from King West by the Ontario Line, owner Louie Cristello looked to Little Italy
How Ladybug Tavern landed on College Street
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Danny’s Pizza Tavern in Little Italy, an ode to classic American pizzerias
Including tavern-style pies, mozzarella sticks and fishbowl cocktails
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Campechano, the Toronto taqueria’s new Little Italy location
Tacos, tacos and more tacos
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Quadro, Little Italy’s new pizza and pasta spot from restaurateur Tony Longo and designer Joe Mimran
The owners have plans to open more Quadros across the city
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Pompette, Little Italy’s new all-day French café and bar with a perfect back patio
Coffee by day, cocktails by night
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Morts, a new mortadella sandwich business from Il Covo chef Ryan Campbell
Toronto has officially reached peak mortadella
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Pompette, Little Italy’s new French restaurant and bar with a big patio
And coming soon: a covered and heated patio for outdoor winter dining
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Dova, Cabbagetown’s new Sicilian restaurant from the owners of Ardo
Including wood-fired pizza, interesting cocktails and weekend brunch
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Happy Burger, the west end’s new spot for smash burgers, hot dogs and waffle fries
It's the comfort food we need right now
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Buena Copa, a new Mexican snack bar and cocktail lounge on College
It’s from the team behind Campechano and Good Hombres
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Boonsik, Little Italy’s new spot for Korean street food
Including “korn dogs,” egg sandwiches and tteokbokki
Real Estate News
How a product manager lives in a 350-square-foot basement studio
She used carpets and furniture to create the illusion of separate rooms
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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $4.3 million for an epic flat in a former Little Italy office space
This is not your typical Toronto family residence
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.5-million Little Italy home that proves buyers love a good coach house
See inside a home with some antique charm
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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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