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Is this Bloor Street or the 11th arrondissement? A new French restaurant brings a piece of Paris to the Annex
Brasserie Côte is the sister spot to Union and Côte de Bœuf
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One of Toronto’s best bistros is opening something new in the Annex
Brassiere Côte will be the new sibling spot of Union and Côte de Bœuf
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“Not everybody needs a 10-course meal for romance”: Toronto chefs on their favourite date-night spots
Including a Pakistani kitchen, a French standby, a pizzeria and a dive bar
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Destination Dining: A roadside tavern in Grey County from the team behind Union
We’re hitting the road and highlighting road-trip-worthy eats across the province
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“We came really close to selling the place”: Two Toronto restaurateurs on the struggle to open their dream Grey County restaurant
The story behind Heart's, the roadside tavern that almost wasn't
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants and gourmet grocers selling Thanksgiving dinner for takeout or delivery
Get your turkey to go this year
Food & Drink
Eleven breakfast sandwiches you need to eat right now
Including one that's actually a burrito
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Toronto’s top takeout spots
Our guide to the most deliriously delicious dishes now available for pickup and delivery
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Toronto’s best French restaurants
Our list of favourites for tartare, duck confit and steak frites
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The 100 best restaurants in Toronto
After hundreds of meals over many months, these are our absolute favourite places to eat in the city right now
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The best restaurants on Ossington right now
Our dining picks for the perennially hip north-south strip
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Inside the kitchen of Prince Edward County winemaker Norman Hardie
A few of the things it's stocked with: Marmite, maple syrup, and a whole lotta meat
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Toronto’s top 10 burgers, according to a guy who ate a burger every day in 2016
#goals
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The 13 best restaurants in Trinity Bellwoods and Little Italy right now
Our highest-rated restaurants in these two 'hoods
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Meat and Co.: how restaurants like Yorkville’s opulent NAO are reinventing the steak house
Last fall, I met with five friends for a bachelor party at Barberian’s, that most old-school of steak houses. Little has changed...
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Ossington butcher shop Côte de Boeuf is now also a snack bar, sometimes
Whether it needed one or not, the Ossington strip has gained yet another epicurean attraction. The peckish and thirsty can now...
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Slideshow: Côte De Boeuf’s
Game of Thrones
-inspired dinner party
On Wednesday and Thursday, Ossington haute butcher Côte De Boeuf and The Kitchen Bell hosted A Feast For Kings , a Game Of...
City News
How Jackie O’Brien, owner of streetwear shop Jonathan and Olivia, would spend a perfect Saturday on Ossington
“My husband, Nic, and I chose to set up our shop on Ossington because of its mix of new, dirty, gritty and dynamic. I can’t...
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Friday Night Bites: tables for two at Union, Origin Liberty and Aria
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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The Dish Power Rankings: Brandon Walsh edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. The top...
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Introducing: Côte de Boeuf, a new butcher and food shop from the owners of Union
Name: Côte de Boeuf Neighbourhood: Ossington Contact info: 130 Ossington Ave., 416-532-2333, @CDBOssington Owners: brothers...
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10 most romantic Toronto restaurants—good for everything from popping the question to illicit affairs
Whether you’re hoping to impress a new flame or celebrate with a long-time lover, the right restaurant can be the difference...
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Union is launching spin-off food shop Côte de Boeuf later this month
In late December, Côte de Boeuf popped up briefly at 130 Ossington Avenue to sell a variety of holiday provisions and then...
City News
Is the Four Seasons being stingy when it comes to severance pay?
The storied Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville is going condo, but not without a snag or two: several laid-off banquet servers are...
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’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
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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
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
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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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