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Food & Drink
How Patois makes its potent Party Pineapple cocktail
We visited the Dundas West restaurant to see how a hollowed-out piece of fruit becomes a tropical vacation
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Food & Drink
Inside the new Death in Venice gelato laboratory
See where flavours like Everything Bagel and Strawberry Juniper Thai Basil come to life
Food & Drink
How Alobar Yorkville assembles its masterful mille-feuille
We went inside the kitchen at Alobar Yorkville to see how the signature pastry tower is made
Food & Drink
How Beach Hill Smokehouse makes its over-the-top brisket sandwich
We went inside the east-end smokehouse to see how The Austin comes together
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Food & Drink
The juicy story behind Yukashi’s rare melon
We went inside the kitchen at Yukashi to learn about the Shizuoka crown muskmelon
Food & Drink
How Donna’s makes its anything-but-ordinary roast beef sandwich
We went inside the kitchen at Donna's to see how the sensational sandwich comes together
Food & Drink
How Momofuku Kojin prepares its top-notch T-Bone steak
We went inside the kitchen at Kojin to follow one of the restaurant's prime cuts from the aging fridge to the super-hot grill to the plate
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Style
Get a behind-the-scenes look at our 2014 best-dressed list
Toronto Life Stylebook , which features our annual best-dressed list, is for sale today on newsstands and online , and our...
City News
VIDEO: the trailer for a touching, hilarious (and entirely made-up) Rob Ford movie starring Chris Farley
Our current favourite of the many, many, many, many, many Rob Ford spoof videos circulating online? This fake trailer for Rob...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford’s lawyer on why the mayor wants the public to see the crack video
— Dennis Morris, who has the unenviable job of being Rob Ford’ s lawyer, making an unexpected push for police to release the...
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Food & Drink
VIDEO: a supercut of the 39 best pizza scenes in the history of film
In the movies, pizza is most often portrayed as fuel for teenaged stoners, but this new supercut proves its range is quite a bit...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Rob Ford befriends an owl and reporters get excited
Rob Ford visited the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show yesterday, where he showed off his well-honed fishing skills, fired a gun and got...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Watch Jennifer McLagan peel lamb’s testicles with Matty Mattheson
The last time the words “sizzle reel” were deployed on TorontoLife.com, they were in reference to Lake Shore, the ill-advised...
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VIDEO: Watch this naked man show off Gotstyle’s new Skype shopping service
Toronto men’s retailer Gotstyle has launched a video shopping service for the very busy (or the very lazy). Here’s how it...
City News
VIDEO: Rob Ford gets Gangnam Styled
Sure, this video is pure Internet silliness, but we couldn’t help but laugh at the awkwardness of Rob Ford trying to pretend not...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Vice’s Munchies series gets Guu-y for its second Toronto video
For the second round of its Toronto sojourn, Vice 's Munchies crew stopped by Church Street’s Guu Izakaya. While Jen Agg praised...
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Food & Drink
VIDEO: A wonderfully bizarre Yelp review of Schnitzel Queen read by a real actor
The Real Actors Read Yelp series, which has been making the rounds of the food blogopshere for a couple months, hit Toronto 12...
Culture
VIDEO: Watch Toronto Life’s online editor talk star-spotting and celebrity gossip at TIFF 2012
Our online editor Andrew Wallace appeared on Global’s The Morning Show bright and early yesterday morning to talk all things...
Food & Drink
All Mixed Up: SpiritHouse’s Brad Gubbins mixes a Man of Interest
Founded by the Toronto Institute of Bartending’ s Len Fragomeni, SpiritHouse is a King West bar and lounge that features a...
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VIDEO: watch a hot dog fly into space and then land and then get eaten
These are wondrous times to be alive. Behold: the proprietors of San Francisco’s Zog’s Dogs launched a humble hot dog, bun and...
City News
Watch a naked Jose Bautista swing his baseball bat (almost NSFW)
Don’t worry about Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista getting ribbed in the clubhouse for his second-place finish at the home run...
City News
VIDEO: Steve Jobs as a drug-dealing murderer (in this news cartoon about RIM)
This animated slap in Research In Motion’ s face comes courtesy of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio also responsible...
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City News
Video: TD Bank jumps on the “It Gets Better” train—as a business decision
TD Bank has made a video for Dan Savage’ s “It Gets Better Project” in support of LGBT youth, and they're the first of...
City News
Andy Byford writes an icy memo to TTC employees
The TTC has had a few customer service embarrassments over the last few years (workers texting on the road, leaving their routes...
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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
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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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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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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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