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Food & Drink
A team of Toronto’s restaurant-industry heavyweights is behind Summerhill’s new seafood spot
Including an 11-time oyster shucking champ
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best oyster deals
Where to get the best shuck for your buck, every day of the week
Food & Drink
“Rodney was one of the great pearls of our industry”: Toronto chefs and restaurateurs remember oyster expert Rodney Clark
Clark, who passed away on November 6, had a major impact on the city’s food scene—and on those who worked in it
Food & Drink
Summerhill is getting a seafood restaurant with some serious pedigree
The team at Seahorse includes a former Quetzal chef and an 11-time oyster-shucking champ
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Island Oysters, a sweet little seafood bar in Bloordale
Come for the oysters, stay for the crispy cod cakes and pillowy prawn rolls
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Saint John’s Tavern’s new second-floor oyster house and raw bar
Including a take on Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits and a $250 seafood tower
Food & Drink
Tiers of Joy: Five of Toronto’s best seafood towers
From an à la carte budget option to the ultimate multi-tiered extravaganza
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A Q&A with Adam Colquhoun, a professional shucker, on oyster dos and don’ts for holiday party season
And the real reason oysters are an aphrodisiac
Food & Drink
A summer oyster bar is joining the eclectic mix at 99 Sudbury
The sprawling former glass factory at 99 Sudbury St., tucked between West Queen West and Liberty Village, has seen all kinds of...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Year: five inventive and delicious oyster dishes
Toronto is undergoing an oyster renaissance thanks to a gaggle of new seafood spots. Here, the top five tastes on the...
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Food & Drink
Must Try: Splendido turns the lowly oyster into an event
The smoked Rocky Point oyster arrives domed, looking like a mysterious ringed planet. When the server removes the lid, a dense...
Food & Drink
Introducing: John and Sons, the new Summerhill oyster house from the owners of Rodney’s by Bay
The highly anticipated John and Sons Oyster House is now up and running in the prime corner real estate previously occupied by...
Food & Drink
See Ontario’s best shuck it off at last weekend’s 2012 Oyster Fest
This past Sunday, Rodney’s Oyster House, the centre of gravity for all things bivalve in Toronto, played host to the annual...
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The Weekender: Beauty and the Beast, Festival of India and six other items on our to-do list
To July 22. $42–$150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W., 416-363-6671, dancaptickets.com. awkeotsang...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
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Introducing: De la Mer, the Bayview fishmonger’s outpost on Roncesvalles
“Would you like to enjoy an oyster while you browse?” De la Mer co-owner David Owen asks a tot-toting Roncesvalles mom, while...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 30 to May 6
Monday, April 30 Tuesday, May 1 Wednesday, May 2 Thursday, May 3 Friday, May 4 Saturday, May 5 Sunday, May 6
Food & Drink
Introducing: Midfield Wine Bar, Dundas West’s laid-back spot for oenophiles
Midfield Wine Bar, which opened without much fanfare at the end of January, is the vision of two front-of-house vets: sommelier...
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Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap 2012: bar snacks that are as lip-smacking as they are cheap
By Andrew D’Cruz, Matthew Hague, Rachel Heinrichs, Emily Landau, David Lawrason, Jason McBride, Mark Pupo, Peter Saltsman and...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Pizzeria Defina, Diana’s Oyster Bar and the Hoof Cocktail Bar
Thin-crust lust in Roncey, impeccable seafood in Scarborough and double-digit cocktails on Dundas West PIZZERIA DEFINA 321...
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Two Torontonians duked it out for national oyster shucking title last Friday
In what must have been acutely embarrassing for shuckers from the east and west coasts, the final round of the Canadian Oyster...
Culture
We chat with Top Chef Canada contestants at Thursday’s mock quick-fire
Thursday afternoon, Top Chef Canada head judge Mark McEwan , alongside host Thea Andrews , held a mock quick-fire challenge at the...
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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
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
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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