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The Real Jerk
Food & Drink
12 of Toronto’s best Caribbean restaurants
Our favourite places right now for roti, jerk chicken, curry goat and beef patties
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Life
Q&A: Edward Pottinger, owner of The Real Jerk, where Drake and Rihanna shot their new music video
Our Six in the Six interview with the owner of the east end's best known Caribbean restaurant, now a hip-hop landmark
Culture
Rihanna releases a music video she shot with Drake inside The Real Jerk
Watch the video Drake shot at the east-end's favourite Caribbean restaurant
City News
Where to spot celebrities during NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto
A field guide to the weekend's famous (and semi-famous) visitors
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Food & Drink
The Real Jerk is coming to the Beach
There was a time, not too long ago, when it looked like the Caribbean restaurant's days were numbered, so this expansion story is...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk turns to crowd-funding to bring its old mural to its new space
No Caribbean restaurant in Toronto has managed to attract quite as much press coverage as The Real Jerk, whose scrappy story of a...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in September
Openings Closings Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in May
• Kinton— The owners of the Toronto outposts of Guu opened this summer’s first new ramen bar (there are others on the...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk’s new location will be a five-minute stroll from the old location
Sure, it totally sucks that The Real Jerk was booted out of its spot at 709 Queen Street East after 24 years in business. But a...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk to throw a farewell party this Saturday
The day that roti lovers across the city have been dreading is finally nigh: after fighting an eviction notice and then steeply...
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Food & Drink
The Real Jerk’s days in its Queen Street shop are numbered (22, to be precise)
It looks like the Real Jerk’ s long, drawn-out tenancy saga is about to come to an end—the last chance to grab a roti at the...
Food & Drink
Real Jerk landlord seeks to overturn injunction, calls judge’s decision “astonishing”
In what’s turning into the Toronto restaurant story that just won’t die, Bill Mandelbaum, the new owner of the Queen Street...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk wins the right to stay put (Injunction: 1; Eviction: 0)
The eviction saga that cast Real Jerk owners Ed and Lily Pottinger as Davids against Bill Mandelbaum ’ s Goliath is over (for...
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The Real Jerk calls in the lawyers (well, one of them) to fight eviction
Ever since the The Real Jerk’ s new landlord told the Caribbean resto to close up and move on, owners Ed and Lily Pottinger have...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk fights closure with protest and online petition
After Riverside landmark The Real Jerk announced it was being forced to close its doors (as a result of its building being...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk, Riverside’s cult favourite Jamaican restaurant, gets an eviction notice
The iconic smiling sun that’s shone down on the corner of Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue for the last 22 years is about...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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