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Food & Drink
Inside Toronto’s first Reserve Bar, Starbucks’ new 3,200-square-foot shrine to coffee
It's like Starbucks, but fancier
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Food & Drink
Here’s what went on at the
Toronto Life
Doughnut Festival presented by Dufferin Mall
Hundreds of doughnut-crazed Torontonians turned up on June 25 for the first Toronto Life Doughnut Festival presented by Dufferin...
Food & Drink
Ten all-day cafés that serve booze
They're cafés! They're bars! They're both!
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: my barista’s first name offends me—what can I do about her?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A barista at my local Starbucks, near Yonge and Bloor, is a Persian woman named Nazi, and she wears a name...
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Food & Drink
Canadian comedian opens a coffee shop called Dumb Starbucks; could go to jail
Vancouver comedian Nathan Fielder made headlines earlier in the week when he opened a coffee shop called Dumb Starbucks in a Los...
Food & Drink
You can send Starbucks coffees to your friends over Twitter now
As of yesterday, Canadian social-media users can send more than just sparkling witticisms and insensitive ideological tirades over...
Food & Drink
Starbucks jumps on the Cronut train with the Duffin; people get really mad
Starbucks U.K. solidified the chain’s rep as the dorky dad of the food world by coming way too late to the Cronut party with the...
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Food & Drink
A posh new coffee house opens in the Financial District
Dineen Coffee Co. is bringing a little coffee cred to the downtown core, an area otherwise dominated by Starbucks and Tim...
Real Estate News
A rent hike in the heart of Kensington Market could force out several long running businesses
The leases in a building at the centre of Kensington Market expire May 31, which could mean big changes for the eclectic area. The...
Food & Drink
Starbucks is renaming its Blonde Roast to sound more Canadian
As part of its never-ending quest to lure coffee drinkers away from Timmies, Starbucks has launched a campaign to find a more...
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Food & Drink
Balzac’s Coffee almost set to open in the Toronto Reference Library
The head office at Balzac's Coffee has confirmed with The Dish that its newest location (hot on the heels of the recent Ryerson...
Culture
How one Toronto musician fooled Starbucks into shilling his songs
Struggling musicians have traditionally had to endure a lot of hardships: working at a coffee shop ( Starbucks, for example) to...
Food & Drink
Attention those not yet caffeinated today: Starbucks is giving out coffee for a quarter
Starbucks, the green mermaid overlord of coffee, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in Canada (see the above video...
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Food & Drink
Starbucks to remove the red bug juice from its Frappuccinos
Starbucks Strawberries and Crème Frappuccinos will no longer contain the ground-up bodies of insects, and frapp-loving vegans...
Food & Drink
Rogue vegan barista outs Starbucks for using ground-up bugs as a red dye
Strict vegans and others who prefer not to eat ground-up insects were upset to learn that a sauce used in certain Starbucks drinks...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: a McDonald’s honcho reflects on the new, breezier atmosphere at his restaurants
— John Betts, CEO of McDonald’s Canada, talking to the Toronto Star’ s Francine Kopun about some of the ways the fast food...
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Style
Canada Goose sues International Clothiers for (allegedly!) ripping off its logo
Canada Goose takes its image very seriously, which is why it’s currently suing International Clothiers for producing a jacket...
Style
Walmart might have Happy Meals, but Target Canada will have venti chai lattes
• Target partners with Starbucks in Canada [Toronto Star]
Food & Drink
With its new blonde roast, Starbucks ups the ante in its simmering coffee war with Tim Hortons
Like us, you’ve probably pondered Starbucks’ complete and total domination by asking, rhetorically, “What’ll they serve...
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Tim Hortons adds new extra-large cup, outguns Starbucks
In news that’s already sending shock waves across the nation, Tim Hortons announced today that it’s introducing a new, larger...
City News
Where to Buy Now: St. Lawrence, because everything an urbanite needs is within a five-minute walk
Established in 1803, St. Lawrence isn’t exactly a scrappy young upstart. But what it’s done exceptionally well on the...
Food & Drink
Latte sippers rejoice: Starbucks just started taking mobile payments in Canada
Starting today, Toronto’s latte-sipping elite will be able to get their caffeine fix that much more quickly with the Canadian...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons to bring espresso to the 99 per cent
Tim Hortons, that Canadian bastion of par-baked doughnuts and extreme folksiness , announced yesterday that it will soon be making...
City News
Gawker gotchas: a roundup of Toronto’s most embarrassing moments according to the gossip giant
Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail’ s “Caption Writing Person” set off an online frenzy with a series of epic one-liners...
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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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