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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
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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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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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A dessert at this new omakase restaurant went viral before it was even open
Get a load of Sushi Kiwami’s Japanese crown melon cake
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A Michelin-recommended seafood restaurant and steakhouse is coming to Toronto
Riley’s Fish and Steak will open in the old Shore Club space
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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What’s on the menu at Pii Nong, a 10,000-square-foot Thai restaurant, market and massage parlour
Including tropical cocktails, an ocean’s worth of seafood and teddy bear–shaped frozen tea
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What’s on the menu at Bar Clams, Matty Matheson’s new East Coast–inspired diner
Including donair, seafood cocktail, hot turkey sandwiches and, of course, plenty of clams
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Sort-of Secret: The new walk-in lunch service at Affinity Fish
Including one of the city’s best katsu sandos
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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
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What’s on the menu at Martine’s Wine Bar, a nostalgic farm-to-table restaurant from the Bar Raval team
Including sea urchin–topped pasta and a cocktail menu stacked with classics
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Sort-of Secret: Comma, a Korean restaurant on Queen West serving raw marinated crab
And pairing it with scotch whisky
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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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Inside Affinity Fish, a new Toronto fishmonger dedicated to sourcing Canadian freshwater fish
Specifically, those from the Great Lakes
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What’s on the menu at Prime Seafood Palace, Matty Matheson’s new Queen West steakhouse
Including A5 Wagyu, dry-aged salmon and sturgeon caviar
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Toronto’s best fishmongers
These experts on everything piscine carry only the freshest of fish
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What’s on the menu at Pink Sky, a swanky new seafood spot on King West
Including a very lobster-y mac and cheese
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What’s on the menu at Bar Mignonette, Craig Wong’s new spot for seafood and wine above Patois
And it has a rooftop patio
Food & Drink
Where to thaw out with the city’s best seafood soups
Secret no. 9 to making the most of the city this chilly season
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Review: At the Junction’s Honest Weight, John Bil lets seafood shine
The fishmonger extraordinaire makes a mean okonomiyaki at his fish-and-chip-less shop
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Introducing: The Commodore, a seafood-focused spot in Parkdale
The nautical-themed bar got a bit of design help from Captain John's
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Get dinner to go from De la Mer’s new Danforth store
“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it,” reads the Lao Tzu quote scrawled onto a subway-tiled...
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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...
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Q&A: John Bil, the in-demand oysterman who’s shucked his way to the top
How do you get to be one of Canada's most respected seafood experts? If you're John Bil, owner of the Junction's new fish...
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’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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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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