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City News
Canadians have turned against tipping
The country is ready to press "skip" when prompted
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Food & Drink
“It’s not fair for your paycheque to be contingent on a stranger’s mood”: David Neinstein on his decision to go tip-free at Barque Smokehouse
The Roncesvalle barbecue joint joins a growing list of full-wage restaurants
Food & Drink
“This is the right thing to do morally and socially”: Why these restaurants are using the pandemic to do away with tipping
The goal: to create greater financial security for their employees
Food & Drink
Why tipping is going away (and why I’ll miss it)
As more Toronto restaurants go gratuity-free, how are we to reward good service?
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Food & Drink
Chef Bobby Flay on Toronto’s dining scene, no-tipping and where he’ll open his next spot
"There have been countless American chefs that have tried this city, and they’ve not done very well"
Food & Drink
Another Toronto restaurateur does away with tipping
The owner of Sidecar and the Toronto Temperance Society is the second in Toronto to ban tips
Food & Drink
Hey, Toronto, you’re not a great tipper (relative to Ottawa and Montreal)
Torontonians are a pretty parsimonious bunch when it comes to tipping, according to a recent study by Square, a San...
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Food & Drink
The Tipping Point: the arbitrary social convention that’s due for debate in 2014
Here's the thing about tipping: it's messed up. It's an inconsistent and unreliable source of income for servers, and it's...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Portlandia’s elegant solution to the problem of splitting the cheque at a restaurant
Even with a table of smarter-than-average friends, splitting a bill can be tricky, especially at the end of a long and boozy...
City News
A fancy Muskoka resort orders its spa workers to hand over their tips (or get out)
A Marriott resort in cottage country is forcing some of its staff to give nearly half their gratuities to the hotel—if they...
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Food & Drink
Michael Prue to resurrect his attempted “tipping-out” ban for restaurants
Next week, Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue will be resurrecting his bid to end the practice of server “tip-outs” to...
Food & Drink
The Star wades back into the (never-ending) tipping debate
Torontonians seem to have an endless appetite for reading about the when, who and how much of tipping. Anyone still confused has a...
Food & Drink
Richard Branson gives Toronto props for its shark fin ban
A note to the business owners and city councillors concerned about the legal, cultural and ethical implications of the city’s...
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Food & Drink
POLL: How much should you tip for fancy, pricy cocktails?
Over at the advice section of the New York Times Dining Journal, Florence Fabricant writes: Of course, even if bartenders are...
Food & Drink
Is 20 per cent the new 15 per cent? Restaurant tips nudge ever upward
In today’s Toronto Star, Amy Pataki reports on the latest trend sweeping Roncesvalles: credit card machines suggesting a 20 per...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s the etiquette for tipping with Groupon?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I used a Groupon recently to get my hair done at an expensive Rosedale salon. It saved me 65 per cent. When...
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Food & Drink
Empire State clamps down on restaurant tipping practices
As the tipping debate rages on in Toronto—with skirmishes breaking out around who’s entitled to them and whether or not they...
Food & Drink
Spotted! Gordon Ramsay dining (and tipping decently) at the Black Hoof
If you’ve ever wondered just how devoted the Black Hoof is to its no-reservations policy, consider this: when chef-owner Grant...
Food & Drink
Proposed law would make “tipping out” illegal at restaurants
The gravy train could be coming to an end at Toronto’s restaurants, as well as at city hall. Many restaurant owners are in the...
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Culture
Spotted! Uma Thurman orders off-menu Mexican at private Brassaii dinner with Jason Reitman
Brassaii chef Bruce Woods served up honey-mustard-glazed salmon, goat cheese–stuffed chicken and champagne risotto for the cast...
Food & Drink
Bill could end automatic tipping in restaurants
Restaurants may have to cross out the “20 per cent gratuity will be added to parties of six or more” line on their menus if a...
Food & Drink
Restaurant owners taking tips from staff—and not in a good way
The restaurant industry in Ontario struggled more during the recession than most other industries. The one-two-three punch of the...
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Food & Drink
Cash and booze are the keys to becoming a resto regular
Grub Street ’s Ben Leventhal has posted instructions on how to become a regular at a restaurant (full version here ). It turns...
Food & Drink
Robert Pattinson cheaps out, forks outsell knives, measuring restaurant pretension
• Twilight star Robert Pattinson has outraged New York waiters by leaving a 14 per cent tip. The English actor munched on...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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