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Weekly Lunch Picks
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a refined Italian splurge at Modus Ristorante
At Modus , one of our Best New Restaurants for 2012, executive chef Bruce Woods (Centro, Brassaii) services refined Italian...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the battered calamari po’boy at Fuel House
Fuel House is tucked away in a cozy Victorian house behind Café Diplomatico on Clinton Street, just north of College. The demure...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the Granny Smith chicken caesar at Toronto’s newest pop-up, Come and Get It
It takes a special gift to transform a humble salad into a delicious pile of artery-clogging cream, crunchables and greens. Jon...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: The soup and grilled cheese combo at Cool Hand Luc
Cool Hand Luc opened last June as King West’s first ice cream parlour. But come fall, owner Luc Essiambre branched outside the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the sustainable trout at Pangaea
Although Winterlicious kicked off last Friday (see our 61 best bets ), it’s still possible to secure a seat at one of the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: an escape from winter at Yorkville’s Mideastro
With Toronto’s wet, sloppy winter weather setting in, it’s nice to be reminded of warmer climes. The five-month-old Yorkville...
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Year in Review: each of 2011’s weekly lunch picks, ranked
Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a pair of Asian snacks at Banh Mi Boys
After days of holiday excess, cheap, hearty and delicious food is just what’s called for. Banh Mi Boys, opened by brothers and...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a weekday feast for two at Chinatown’s newest dim sum restaurant
Up on the third floor of an old Chinese mall on the south side of Dundas sits Dim Sum King, a new Chinatown spot that serves...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the refined decadence of Splendido’s holiday tasting menu
December’s here, and that means cold weather and holiday decadence. Splendido, Harbord Street’s temple of special-occasion...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a perfectly elegant sandwich at a perfectly elegant Summerhill pastry shop
Sandwiched between Summerhill’s five thieves, Nadège Nourian’s second outlet is a jewel box of pretty confections and...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a delicate rainbow trout at a Spadina Avenue café
At noon, a queue snakes out from the mezzanine barista bar and kitchen at Sense Appeal, the King and Spadina café with its own...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a hearty Japanese meal in a box down on Front Street
The homey rice bowls at Front Street’s Take Sushi are a nice break from the tempura-and-teriyaki-filled bento box you get...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a thin-crust prosciutto pizza in the theatre district
The new theatre district location of Paese opened relatively quietly about a year ago and, like its older uptown sibling, serves...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a luxe take on a classic sandwich at a new King West TIFF hub
This Thursday marks the start of TIFF, with its usual flurry of stars. Celeb hunters hoping to avoid the red carpet crush should...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a pretty beet salad and a pair of seared scallops at O&B Canteen
Finding decent fuel between movies and celebrity gawking can be difficult during TIFF, but one advantage of the festival’s move...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a beer and a guinea fowl sausage on King West
Wvrst , the new King West version of a Munich-style beer hall, takes a simple concept and provides enormous variety, with 18...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a classic roast beef sandwich in the Path
There are two ways to cope with a heat wave at lunchtime: barricade yourself inside an air-conditioned restaurant or grab...
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Summerlicious Lunch Pick: Bymark’s B.C. halibut
Summerlicious officially launched last Friday ( see our complete guide ), and instead of serving a second-string menu, many...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a splurge at one of the prettiest new restaurants in town
First impressions matter, and Aria ’s Stephen Pile –designed room, with its vaulted ceilings and dazzling Moooi lights...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a quick, tasty and affordable combo from Taste of Orient
A food court gem located in the newly renovated Richmond Adelaide Centre , Taste of Orient serves heaping plates of simple but...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: The Boulevard Café’s 30th anniversary lunch prix fixe
The Boulevard Café has been serving Peruvian staples from its cozy, two-storey Annex home for the last 31 years, and to mark the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the fluffy ricotta gnocchi at Carisma
Steps away from the King Eddy, this Italian restaurant—owned by the Pagliaro family, of Il Mulino fame—is full of...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the heavenly tinga tostada at Agave y Aguacate
Desperate for decent street food, eager Torontonians line up daily at this little Mexican food stall in Kensington...
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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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