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Style
The best Toronto restaurants that double as affordable wedding venues
Whether you favour slightly surreal or minimalist decor, these venues may save you some scratch
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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
“I would absolutely hate to see it close”: Toronto chefs on their favourite (older) restaurants
And what their go-to orders are at each
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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
Food & Drink
Why the lobster at Rodney’s Oyster House is one of Toronto’s essential dishes
We're asking some of the city’s top food folks about their favourite T.O. meals
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
The high price of cheap shrimp: where restaurants get their prawns from and why you should care
We’ve gradually come to care about how our beef is raised, who stitches together our clothes and the carbon footprint of our...
Food & Drink
Coming soon to King West: the world’s biggest “permanent ice lounge”
It takes balls to open a frigid winter fortress in Toronto just as the city is finally beginning to thaw. That’s not stopping...
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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Food & Drink
Luminato announces lineup for 2012 edition of 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
On Friday, Luminato announced the full list of restaurants, vendors and food shops participating in its annual 1,000 Tastes of...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 16 to 22
Monday, April 16 Tuesday, April 17 Wednesday, April 18 Thursday, April 19 Friday, April 20 Saturday, April 21 Sunday, April 22
Style
Weddings 2012: eight trendy finger foods to satisfy the health nut, the gourmand and the junk-food addict
Check out all eight finger-licking good finger foods »
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Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fishbar, the new Ossington seafood restaurant from the people behind Salt
After keeping eager would-be patrons waiting for almost six months, Fishbar , the new restaurant from William Tavares (co-owner of...
Food & Drink
Toronto is Canada’s “party town,” Country Style is sold, wedding catering nightmares
• Montreal’s King of the Food Court, Stanley Ma (the owner of Yogen Früz and Sushi Shop ), buys Ontario’s second-largest...
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Food & Drink
Recessionary gratuities: Is 2009 the year of lousy tips?
What to tip at recession time? This is the latest question in the never-ending gratuity debate; and since the market went...
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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
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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
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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