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Food & Drink
Ten Cupid-approved restaurants for Valentine’s Day dinner
Love is on the menu—as are foie gras, truffle lasagna and desserts galore
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Culture
Twelve things to do this Valentine’s Day—including a mass wedding and
Star Wars
burlesque
Red roses, dark chocolate and candlelit dinners be damned
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
Valentine’s Day: These Toronto restaurants are offering multi-course takeout meals, bagel brunches and charcuterie bouquets
Say it with... meat and cheese
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Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants doing Valentine’s Day dinner for takeout and delivery
Celebrate with your stay-at-home someone (even if that's just yourself)
Culture
Ten touching wedding photos guaranteed to warm your cold heart
Our favourite shots from the Gladstone's annual
Love (Actually)
photo exhibition
Food & Drink
15 of our favourite restaurants and bars perfect for last-minute Valentine’s Day dates
No reservations required
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Food & Drink
10 new no-reservation restaurants and bars perfect for last-minute Valentine’s Day dates
Perfect for people who didn't plan ahead
Culture
Ten gorgeous Valentine’s Day cards from the past 200 years
How we used to say "be mine"
Life
These 10 heartwarming wedding photos will make you believe in love again
Our favourite shots from the Gladstone Hotel’s
Love (Actually)
photo exhibition
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Life
Ten wedding photos that will make you believe in true love
You will cry. Don't say we didn't warn you
Culture
A risqué comedy show, a burlesque bonanza and five other things to do on Valentine’s Day
Seven date ideas for this February 14
Food & Drink
10 tasty Valentine’s Day gifts by the dozen that are way better than roses
Because flowers are nice—but you can't eat them
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Food & Drink
Eight ways to eat heart in Toronto on Valentine’s Day
This weekend, treat someone special to chicken (or duck or horse or bison) ticker
Food & Drink
Where can you still score a table for two on Valentine’s Day? These places. (But hurry.)
No Valentine's Day reservations? Don't break out that that fail-safe bolognese recipe just yet. We called around to places that...
Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: 28 great ideas for every kind of relationship
Choosing the right Valentine's Day gift can be a delicate business. Most long-term beaus expect more than just a funny card, but a...
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Food & Drink
Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s drop-in, heart-obsessed Valentine’s Day feast
For those whose Valentine’s Day plans haven’t quite panned out, take heart—literally. For this weekend only, the offal...
Shopping
Toronto Valentine’s Day Gifts for Women: 15 gifts she will actually adore
A note for bewildered boyfriends: few women want to gorge on chocolate or squeeze into ill-fitting lingerie after consuming a...
Shopping
Toronto Valentine’s Day Gifts for Men: 15 gift ideas for guys, from simple to extravagant
Guys can be tough to shop for on Valentine's Day: they don’t tend to gush over romantic gestures and sappy cards, and there's no...
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Food & Drink
Valentine’s Day 2014: eight delicious ways to celebrate (or ignore) the heart-obsessed holiday
For a day devoted to blissful sentiments, Valentine’s Day certainly causes a lot of headaches. Participating in the love fest...
Food & Drink
Trend We Love: adorable restaurant power couples
A surprising number of buzzy new restaurants have opened in recent years that are owned or operated by married couples—and in...
City News
Spotlight: soulful pop rockers the Arkells trade in Hamilton dive bars for the ACC
In this post-Bieber era, when any bedroom singer with a YouTube account and a good hook can become a global pop star...
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Shopping
The Find: Toronto-made lingerie that you’ll still want to wear after Valentine’s Day
Although Valentine’s Day gift guides are usually chock full of lingerie, most women actually prefer to buy their own lacy bits...
Food & Drink
The Dish Power Rankings: The Valentine’s madness edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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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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