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Food & Drink
“We’re cranking out 60,000 pizzas a month”: Piano Piano chef Victor Barry on his plans for worldwide frozen pizza domination
Barry is now the proud owner of General Assembly’s line of frozen pies
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Piano Piano’s whimsically wacky new St. Lawrence location
Including pizza, pasta and a full-size carousel horse
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Piccolo Piano, chef Victor Barry’s new pizzeria and snack bar
It's in the old Café Cancan space
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Victory Burger, chef Victor Barry’s new virtual smash burger business
The business is virtual, the burgers are real
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Food & Drink
Toronto chefs and restaurateurs on what they hope to see more (or less) of in 2020
“I would love for people to stop thinking Instagram is the be all and end all”
Real Estate News
Take a look inside a colourful Annex cottage that’s built for entertaining
Piano Piano's Victor Barry and his wife opened up the dark, awkward main floor into a big box of natural light
Food & Drink
Toronto Life
is hosting a series of epic dinners at the city’s best restaurants, and you’re invited
You don't want to miss these one-night-only menus
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Real Weddings: Inside an elegantly low-key ceremony at Piano Piano
Rain didn't ruin a thing
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Café Cancan, Victor Barry’s new French bistro in the old Harbord Room space
And in true Harbord Room fashion, there's a signature burger
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
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Food & Drink
Chef Victor Barry is opening a French bistro in the old Harbord Room space
Café Cancan is scheduled to open later this spring
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of STK chef Tommy McHugh
Just a few of things it's stocked with: Champagne, Marmite and Taco Bell sauce
Food & Drink
Toronto Life’
s most-read restaurant reviews of 2016
From a fast-casual salad counter to a Bay Street sushi spot, these are Mark Pupo's most popular reviews of the year
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Piano Piano is the best new restaurant of the summer
It has a Tim Burton meets Nancy Reagan '80s vibe—but the food is extraordinary
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at this year’s Taste of Toronto
A sneak peek at 26 of the dishes being served
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Piano Piano chef Victor Barry
A few of the things it's stocked with: roast chicken, fresh pasta and a "shit ton" of broccoli
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What’s on the menu at Piano Piano, Victor Barry’s new Italian restaurant
With a menu chock full of classics like veal parm and wood-fired pizza
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
Food & Drink
Victor Barry is closing Splendido
The Harbord Street institution will serve its last tasting menu on New Year's Eve
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Q&A: Victor Barry, the fine-dining holdout behind Toronto’s most famously fancy restaurant
Over the past few years, Toronto has witnessed the rise of the snack bar and the decline of traditional fine-dining. In the midst...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious: dignified dining program or “cash-grabby food factory”?
The idea of dining out on the cheap is nice, but what is Summerlicious like from the restaurant's perspective? Sure, bargain meals...
Food & Drink
Recipe: the supremely fluffy raisin scones from Fika in Kensington Market
PREP TIME: 15 minutes REFRIGERATION TIME: 24 hours BAKE TIME: 15 minutes Makes 12 to 14 scones RAISIN SCONES 3 ½ cups all-purpose...
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Must-Try: Splendido’s slow-roasted carrots prove that veggies have star power, too
Magical things happen when chefs treat vegetables with proper respect. At Splendido, Victor Barry elevates humble carrots by...
Food & Drink
Prep School: Splendido chef Victor Barry offers three ways to prep truffles
As the fleeting truffle season nears its end, Splendido chef Victor Barry offers three ways to prep the black beauties at home...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
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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