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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Cry Baby, the secret cocktail bar behind a Dundas West art gallery
It’s from the people behind Mother Tongue and Museum Tavern
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Koukla, Ossington’s sleek new meze restaurant from the Mamakas team
Including a cocktail made with goat’s milk
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Blondies Ossington, the bright-pink pizza chain’s newest location
It's the only one of their shops to sell slices
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Favorites, a new Thai BBQ spot from the owners of Khao San Road and Paris Paris
It's hidden behind a Sam James Coffee Bar
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Here’s what went down at the latest members-only
Toronto Life
R&D Night dinner at Tanto
See what was served for the 15-course feast
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Tanto, an Argentine restaurant from a Cava alumnus
Where there's smoke there's a wood-fired grill
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Sybanne, a new Mediterranean tapas bar on Ossington
Chef Howard Dubrovsky is back at it
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Shopping
Inside the Local, Lululemon’s new menswear-only shop on Ossington
More of a men's lounge than another yoga pants-peddling storefront
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at La Banane, Brandon Olsen’s fancy, French-inspired restaurant on Ossington
Including something called a "Ziggy Stardust Disco Egg"
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Superpoint, Jonathan Poon’s new pizza and pasta bar
It's Bar Fancy's new "Italian-ish" sister spot
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Life
What Toronto’s first dog-friendly dinner club looked like
Who let the dogs out? Diner en Bark did, that's who
Food & Drink
Bar Habana is La Cubana’s new backroom cocktail lounge
And it serves cocktails by the pitcher
Food & Drink
At Omaw, Matt Blondin brings the American South to Ossington
Our review of the chef's sublime southern cooking
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Introducing: Omaw, Matt Blondin’s Carolina-inspired spot on Ossington
The old Levack Block space is now a low-country kitchen
Food & Drink
Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
There are plenty of great places to eat on the east side—it just hasn’t exploded the way the west has over the last five years. How come?
Food & Drink
Bobbie Sue’s, a mac-and-cheese spot from the owners of Poutini’s and Hawker Bar, is coming to Ossington
The people behind an all-poutine restaurant are expanding their comfort food repertoire
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Anice Jewellery has opened an Ossington outpost
Anice , Kensington Market’s bijou jewellery shop , has opened a second (much larger) location on Ossington. Like the original...
Food & Drink
Ossington butcher shop Côte de Boeuf is now also a snack bar, sometimes
Whether it needed one or not, the Ossington strip has gained yet another epicurean attraction. The peckish and thirsty can now...
Food & Drink
Hawker Bar is moving on up (to the second floor)
Ossington's Singaporean snack shop, Hawker Bar —currently the size of a street-food stall—is expanding its business to the...
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Ossington’s most ambitious restaurant says farewell with a 20-course feast
Yours Truly, the Ossington restaurant known for its gorgeous tasting meals, will be saying farewell to the strip in...
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Introducing: Mamakas, a homey Greek taverna on the Ossington strip
Name: Mamakas Contact Info: 80 Ossington Ave., mamakas.ca, @mamakasTO Previously: Fancy design shop Ministry of Interior...
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Ossington loses its Peruvian dinner destination
A message on the website for Ardor Bistro , the year-old restaurant at 59 Ossington Avenue from the owners of Celestin , confirms...
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Street Style: toddlers, artists and off-duty models hang out on the Ossington strip
Summer nights on Ossington have become even busier now that Bang Bang, the ice cream parlour and bakery that sells the world's...
Food & Drink
This may be the cheapest place to drink on (well,
near
) Ossington
The Ossington Stop ( formerly Ossington Station ) is a new late-night snack bar on Dundas, just west of Ossington. The bare-bones...
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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
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
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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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