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Weekly Lunch Picks
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the sumptuous tawük lunch plate at Tabülè
This Middle Eastern restaurant is a midtown favourite—the room is already packed when we arrive for lunch. Our order of tawük...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a spread of diverse northern Chinese dim sum
The rustic northern-style dim sum at Asian Legend is a hearty alternative to the dainty small plates found at most Cantonese...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a sumptuous tart with an earthy soup
A favourite with financial district suits, Biff’s combines bistro decor—art nouveau posters, yellow walls, black and white...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: Delica Kitchen’s hearty soup-and-sandwich combo
Wholesome soups, hearty sandwiches and homey baked goods are the big draws for this busy midtown lunch spot. We opt for the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: Gallery Grill’s hearty, hand-rolled fregola
Hart House’s gem of a restaurant is a reliable spot for inventive takes on seasonal ingredients. The menu card offered by chef...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: Ematei’s unique take on the bento box
This old school, expat-filled izakaya elevates the traditional bento box ($8.50-25). Instead of generic teriyaki and tempura, our...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: one of the best pizzas in the Annex
A favourite with professors on long (and liquid) lunches, this slick Annex haunt dishes up rustic Italian fare with unpretentious...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: grilled octopus that almost convinced us it isn’t January
A trip to Elm Street's Adega is the perfect way to remain in denial that spring is still months away. The Portuguese...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the 24-hour sam gye tang soup at Etsu
Taking responsibility for holiday excesses might be a painful task, but Etsu’s sam gye tang ($23) goes a long way in helping...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $6 chicken curry burrito at the Drake Café
The café at the Drake Hotel is showing a bit of mercy to busy office workers who don’t have time for a sit-down lunch. Its new...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the gooey Dungeness crab mac-and-cheese at Reds
Top toque Michael Steh, bronze medallist at Toronto’s annual Gold Medal Plates competition, is the culinary mastermind behind...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $38 Trust the Chef prix fixe at Didier
Didier Leroy, English Canada's first Maître Cuisinier de France, offers one of Toronto's more curious lunch experiences: a...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $7 stew at Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu
What this little Korean institution lacks in decor it more than makes up for with its namesake specialty, served as part of a set...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the lobster burger at Luma
At the Bell Lightbox’s sleek upmarket restaurant, chef Jason Bangerter elevates Bay Street bistro standards with innovative...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the $22 Lunch Special at George
Bay Street bistros can be frantic at midday, but at George, a few streets over, noon hour is a tranquil experience, set in a room...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: the beef sukiyaki at Tokyo Grill
Turns out Guu isn’t the only place to go for Japanese comfort food. Homesick expats and Japanophiles often turn to the...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Vertical
This financial district mainstay keeps the food fresh and the patio busy The place: Vertical's lofty canopy-covered terrace rises...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: Marben’s Monday brunch
The revamped Wellington West hot spot nails that perfect brunch ratio of sweet to savoury—even on Monday The place: Marben’s...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Lai Wah Heen
This legendary haute Chinese kitchen delivers a full—and fully delicious—dim sum experience in less than an hour The place:...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Yuzu
At $31, this artful sushi platter is equal parts beautiful, original and affordable The place: Tucked away in the northeast corner...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Aunties and Uncles
This urban oasis near U of T nails the '50s nostalgia and the chicken sandwich The place: If restaurants were swimsuits, Aunties...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Loire
The French dishes at this Harbord Street restaurant stun as much at lunch as they do at dinner The place: This south Annex gem...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Delux
Ossington’s French-Cuban fixture has started serving lunch—and there’s plenty to celebrate The place: Now chugging toward...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Daniel et Daniel
Many Torontonians have sampled this caterer's delights at parties, but boxed meals from its small lunch counter satisfy, too The...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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
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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
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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