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What electroclash icon Peaches loves about Parkdale
Including filthy martinis, drag brunch and pinball wizardry
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Food & Drink
Where the Drake Hotel’s executive chef eats in Leslieville and Riverside
Daniel Hyam’s favourite spots for Cantonese cuisine, Thai food and apple fritters
Food & Drink
A dozen of the best dog-friendly patios in Toronto
Complete with pawgaritas, puppy plates and beer for your four-legged friends
Style
Real Weddings: Inside a wintry celebration at Prime Seafood Palace
Featuring a walk in the snow, a cheese-wheel cake and a cameo by Matty Matheson
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City News
Real Weddings: Inside a
Canada’s Drag Race
star’s glamorous celebration
Featuring a wedding cake topped with Polaroids, a performance by Sarah Slean and a groom tied with a bow
Food & Drink
Twelve Toronto bars that have decked their halls for the holidays
Including a chic chalet and a gloriously gaudy cocktail bar
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Taylor McMeekin, the new executive chef at the Drake Hotel
Featuring 14 boxes of cod tongues, a dozen De Buyer saucepans and a full floor dedicated to McMeekin’s home bar
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Food & Drink
How to stock the perfect booze-free bar cart for Dry January
Featuring zero-ABV tips and tricks from Gord Hannah, corporate beverage manager at the Drake
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants and caterers making Easter and Passover meals to go
For your family Zoom celebrations
Food & Drink
Toronto Life
hosted an exclusive wine tour last night. Here’s how it all went down
And it's just the first of many
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Drake Commissary, the hospitality group’s new production bakery, bar and restaurant in the Junction Triangle
The 5,000-square-foot kitchen is the new heart of the Drake's culinary network
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
Food & Drink
What happens when a bunch of Toronto and Montreal chefs get together for a hockey game? They make a ton of killer food (and also play some hockey)
It was more about food than sport
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Food & Drink
Q&A: The Drake’s Ted Corrado on this weekend’s hockey game that pits Toronto’s top chefs against Montreal’s
"We’re actually having our first practice tomorrow morning to see who can skate"
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of the Drake Hotel’s chef Alexandra Feswick
A few of the things it's stocked with: fruit, baby food and lots and lots of pickled stuff
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at this year’s Taste of Toronto
A sneak peek at 26 of the dishes being served
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Carver, Rob Bragagnolo’s new King West sandwich counter
Starring slow-roasted meat made using his grandfather's 92-year-old recipe
Food & Drink
Taste of Toronto reveals the lineup for its third annual food festival
It's back again for four straight days of refined gluttony
City News
How Jeff Stober turned the Drake Hotel into an empire
The Drake's owner is a master at exporting his quirky brand of twee
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #36, Jeff Stober
The king of Queen West has taken his quirky brand of Canadiana on the road
Culture
Catch an Oscar contender at TIFF, see AC/DC live and six other things to do this week
Watch Jake Gyllenhaal’s film festival opener Montreal director Jean-Marc Vallée ( Dallas Buyers Club, Wild ) comes to TIFF for...
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
The Critic: with its new downtown restaurant, the Drake continues to conquer Toronto
Even for a hotel, the Drake comes with a lot of baggage. Ten years ago, the dot-com entrepreneur Jeff Stober spent $6...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the Month: lobster goes casual in five pub-style plates
After a recessionary hiatus, the symbol of culinary luxury is back on menus, but something’s changed: lobster has gone...
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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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