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Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh
Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce
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Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
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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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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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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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Introducing: Village Pizza, a place to get Spam-topped pies and Wild Turkey shots
You can't beat canned meat
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What’s on the menu at Piano Piano, Victor Barry’s new Italian restaurant
With a menu chock full of classics like veal parm and wood-fired pizza
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Victor Barry is closing Splendido
The Harbord Street institution will serve its last tasting menu on New Year's Eve
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Course correction: At his audacious new restaurant, Alo, Patrick Kriss revives the sullied art of the tasting menu
The new restaurant at Queen and Spadina is the best to open in the city this year—in many years, in fact.
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Taste of Toronto 2015: a sneak peek at some of the dishes being served at this year’s Fort York food fest
Taste of Toronto returns to Fort York this summer with another all-star line-up of culinary heavyweights. Besides the food...
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Taste of Toronto reveals its restaurant lineup for this year’s Fort York food fest
Taste of Toronto— not to be confused with Toronto Taste—is returning to Fort York this July for four days of refined...
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Top Five: the best celebration spots in Toronto
The finest venues for popping a cork or popping the question Two restaurants in a handsome 19th-century building are reviving surf...
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Q&A: Victor Barry, the fine-dining holdout behind Toronto’s most famously fancy restaurant
Over the past few years, Toronto has witnessed the rise of the snack bar and the decline of traditional fine-dining. In the midst...
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Cold Arts: 10 next-level ice creams and sorbets
Chefs are taking house-made ice creams and sorbets to new heights, goosing them with herbs, spices and savoury flavours to wildly...
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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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Must-Try: Splendido’s slow-roasted carrots prove that veggies have star power, too
Magical things happen when chefs treat vegetables with proper respect. At Splendido, Victor Barry elevates humble carrots by...
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Top Five: Toronto’s best brunch spots
Where to go for the city’s most hedonistic breakfast feasts Sunday-morning reservations are filled far in advance. The crowds...
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Prep School: Splendido chef Victor Barry offers three ways to prep truffles
As the fleeting truffle season nears its end, Splendido chef Victor Barry offers three ways to prep the black beauties at home...
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Must-Try: the award-winning black truffle and matsutake mushroom salad from Splendido
At this year’s city-wide Gold Medal Plates competition—the culinary equivalent of the Olympics for Toronto chefs— Splendido...
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Have cocktail, will travel: three popular bartenders-for-hire who are ready to shake and deliver
Any good holiday party shares a few key components: a killer playlist, an energetic crowd and, of course, a festive beverage or...
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Splendido owners Victor Barry and Carlo Catallo are breaking up
While other Toronto restaurateurs are forging new partnerships, Victor Barry and Carlo Catallo, co-owners of Splendido and Queen...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Splendido, Porzia and Bestellen
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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Superchef Supper Club: Victor Barry and Marc Thuet serve bison and bear for two nights at Splendido
Toronto chefs have become remarkably mobile, flying from food events to pop-ups to guest-chef gigs with the ease of musicians...
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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
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
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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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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
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
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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