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Mexican
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Chula Taberna, a Leslieville cantina with tacos, tequila flights and pig roasts
It's also got two patios and two tiki bars
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Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
Food & Drink
Say hola to Toronto’s Little Mexico
Hole-in-the-wall taquerias have been joined by new-wave taco slingers, torta stuffers and mescal mavens
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What’s on the menu at El Rey Mezcal Bar, Grant van Gameren’s new Kensington kitchen
It's another Mexican spot for the market
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What’s on the menu at Macho Radio Bar, a new Tex-Mex joint with arcade games and a giant patio
Also: frozen margaritas, cocktails by the pitcher and cornbread French toast made with Pop Rocks
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This new dessert bar does Froot Loop paletas, Dole Whip floats and vegan soft serve
Mexican ice cream parlours are hot, hot, hot
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Kensington Market gets a taco-free Mexican spot
Torteria San Cosme is all about sandwiches
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Review: As the city approaches peak taco, Campechano stands out from the crowd
Read on to see why we gave this casual Mexican spot a three-star review
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Introducing: Campechano, King West’s new gluten-free taquería
Where corn is king
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Playa Cabana’s Dave Sidhu is opening Cafetería in Dufferin Grove
This time, it's a Mexican diner
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Review: El Catrin brings Mexican-for-the-masses to the Distillery District
El Catrin Destileria ★½ 18 Tank House Ln., 416-203-2121 Chef Olivier Le Calvez moved from Mexico City to Toronto to oversee...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fonda Lola, a new Queen West cantina that serves kombucha on tap
Name: Fonda Lola Neighbourhood: Queen West Contact Info: 942 Queen St. W., @FondaLola Owners: Ernesto Rodriguez, Howard Dubrowsky...
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Introducing: Olé Olé, a new King East resto-lounge with an impressive social conscience
Name: Olé Olé Contact Info: 169 King St. E., 416-363-9000, oleoletoronto.com Neighbourhood: King East Chef: Rodrigo Aguilar The...
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Must-Try: Playa Cabana Hacienda’s sweet play on the fries-curds-gravy equation
At Playa Cabana Hacienda, the newest outpost of Dave Sidhu’ s trendy taco chain, playful fusion dishes round out a menu of...
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Introducing: Xola, a new spot for tacos, taquitos and tamales in the Beach
Name: Xola Neighbourhood: The Beach Contact Info: 2222A Queen St. E. Owner/Chef: Mali Fernandez, the former chef and co-owner of...
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Recipe: spicy ceviche tostadas from Agave y Aguacate chef Francisco Alejandri
PREP TIME: 20 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 30 minutes COOK TIME: 8 minutes Serves 12 CEVICHE 13 limes 1 lb fresh fillets lean white...
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Mexican pop-up Fonda Lola gets a permanent home on Queen West
The recipe for the modern Mexican eatery has never been simpler: tacos + pop-up = permanent digs. Fonda Lola, which popped up this...
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Introducing: El Catrin, the Distillery District’s new Mexican restaurant
Name: El Catrin Destileria Neighbourhood: Distillery District Contact info: 18 Tank House...
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Introducing: Playa Cabana Hacienda, the third location of the trendy taqueria
Name: Playa Cabana Hacienda Neighbourhood: The Annex Contact Info: 14 Dupont St., 647-352-6030, www.playacabana.ca/...
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Parkdale taqueria Grand Electric is now doing takeout
Grand Electric fans can scarf their pork tinga tacos and squid hoagies without enduring the hours-long waits and blaring ‘90s...
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Beloved taco spot Agave y Aguacate is back in Baldwin Village
Mexican-born chef Francisco Alejandri opened a Kensington Market taco stand in 2011, ahead of the current craze. With only a...
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Critic: How tequila-fuelled taquerias like Playa Cabana became the city’s buzziest places to eat—and party
Playa Cabana is on the ground floor of a slim Dupont semi just off Davenport, a convenient pit stop after a wardrobe binge in...
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Must-Try: the Bulgogi Torta from A-OK Foods, a Mexican-Korean spin on a fast food classic
The fundamental insight behind the addictive Bulgogi Torta from A-OK Foods: few sandwiches are as satisfying as a...
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Seven food trends at 2013’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Each year, we head over to the annual Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show to get a look at the big new food...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
Big Stories
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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