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How to get great wine delivered to your door (and a year of
Toronto Life
for free, too)
Because nothing goes better with a top-notch bottle than a really great read
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Toronto’s top chefs reveal their favourite spots for pizza, sushi, sandwiches and after-work drinks
Grant van Gameren, Mark McEwan, Victor Barry and a dozen other chefs share their go-to shops and restaurants in the city
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Planta review: chef David Lee gives vegan food a hit-and-miss Bay Street makeover
Skip the carrot dog and order a meat-free burger that's deeply satisfying—for real
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The Chase Hospitality Group and chef David Lee to open Planta, a plant-based restaurant
It's moving into Pangaea's old space
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Piano Piano is the best new restaurant of the summer
It has a Tim Burton meets Nancy Reagan '80s vibe—but the food is extraordinary
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What’s on the menu at this year’s Taste of Toronto
A sneak peek at 26 of the dishes being served
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Inside the kitchen of Piano Piano chef Victor Barry
A few of the things it's stocked with: roast chicken, fresh pasta and a "shit ton" of broccoli
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Inside the kitchen of Nota Bene chef David Lee
A few of the things it's stocked with: Bio-K, hemp hearts and homemade nut milk
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Taste of Toronto reveals the lineup for its third annual food festival
It's back again for four straight days of refined gluttony
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What’s on the menu at Nota Bene, David Lee’s redesigned restaurant
The eight-year-old kitchen just got a makeover
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Nota Bene chef David Lee cuts ties with The Carbon Bar
For the past year, executive chef David Lee has been dividing his time between Nota Bene, the six-year-old power-lunch spot on...
Spotted: Reese Witherspoon at Nota Bene
Shinan Govani tweeted Sunday night that Reese Witherspoon had been spotted enjoying an informal dinner at Nota Bene. There's been...
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Summerlicious: dignified dining program or “cash-grabby food factory”?
The idea of dining out on the cheap is nice, but what is Summerlicious like from the restaurant's perspective? Sure, bargain meals...
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Summerlicious 2014: our restaurant critic Mark Pupo picks his top 10 meals
Summerlicious meals can be hit-and-miss. That's why we narrowed things down—first to the 67 spots recommended by our...
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Slurp Noodlefest moves to 99 Sudbury for its second—and final—edition
After a sold-out run at The Great Hall in March, Slurp Noodlefest is returning for a sequel on April 2o at 99 Sudbury. This...
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The 15 Toronto restaurants recommended in Where Chefs Eat, a new culinary guidebook
Where Chefs Eat is a new 633-page collection of answers to a very simple question: where to go for a good meal? Those answers are...
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Alternalicious: a roundup of Winterlicious 2013’s prix fix rebels
Winterlicious can be a double-edged sword for diners. Yes, there’s the prospect of great deals that you’d never get...
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The Momofuku Effect: How David Chang took over the city’s menus long before Momofuku even opened its Toronto doors
The New York mastermind behind Momofuku is one of the most copied chefs of the last decade. His brand of fusion—Asian street...
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SPOTTED: Rob Zombie has dinner on Queen West, terrifies hundreds
Horror aficionado (and “Dragula” singer) Rob Zombie was spotted holding court at Nota Bene last night prior to the midnight...
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Friday Night Bites: Nota Bene, Marben and Scaramouche
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Splendido announces its new chef de cuisine: Tom McHugh
Back in May, we told you about Patrick Kriss’ s decision to leave his chef de cuisine gig at Splendido (where, in addition to...
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Toronto Taste 2012: We catch up with the chefs and owners of Buca, Nota Bene, Splendido, Salt and many more
This past Sunday marked the 22nd edition of Toronto Taste, which saw 2,000 food enthusiasts gathering at the ROM to meet some of...
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All-Beef Party: Toronto’s 25 best burgers ranked in order of heart-stopping, messy magnificence
Nine years ago, Mark McEwan scandalized Torontonians with his $35 truffled Bymark burger. That was before words like...
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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
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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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