Toronto Life

Toronto Life is a monthly magazine based in Canada that explores entertainment, politics, and lifestyle in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to its regular issues, Toronto Life also releases several annual special interest publications that focus on various aspects of the city, such as Real Estate, Stylebook, Eating & Drinking, City Home, and Neighbourhoods. Founded in 1966, the magazine is currently owned by St. Joseph Media. It boasts a circulation of 81,816 and an estimated readership of 856,000. Toronto Life is renowned for its excellence, having won a remarkable 110 gold awards at the Canadian National Magazine Awards, including three titles for Magazine of the Year in 1985, 1989, and 2007.

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Hot dog! This new Junction spot specializes in top-notch street meat

2 days ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

This past May, Venezuelan-born Rafael Bastidas (the owner of Inmigrante, an excellent Latin kitchen in the Beaches) and his wife, Valerie Jil, joined the Junction’s restaurant scene with a loud Get yer hot dogs heeeeeeere!To the untrained eye, Tino’s—with its bright-orange accents, funky stadium seating and adorable wiener dog logo—appears to be the mom-and-pop sausage shop version of a street-meat vendor. They’re just hot dogs, right?
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is our hometown NBA hero

3 days ago | torontolife.com | Ali Amad

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is officially the best thing to happen to Canadian basketball since Steve Nash. On Sunday night, the Toronto-born, Hamilton-raised baller capped off one of the most dominant seasons by an individual athlete in NBA history, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a Game 7 victory over the Indiana Pacers and taking home the NBA Finals MVP award—the first Canadian to ever do so. The 26-year-old logged 29 points and 12 assists in the deciding game.
After 40 years, a Toronto-based hot dog company with a cult following is back

3 days ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

For hot dog enthusiasts, nothing says summer like throwing an all-beef Hebrew National or Chicago 58 on the grill, then biting into it and getting that Proustian snap. And while most street meat still screams summer in the city, true frankfurter fiends (the ones who remember the days when Kwinter’s was pumping out 20,000 all-beef hot dogs a week from their North York factory) can only daydream when they hear that sentimental sizzle.
Where Jerome Robinson, the Heartbreak Chef, eats in Parkdale

4 days ago | torontolife.com | Tiffany Leigh

Jerome Robinson, otherwise known as the Heartbreak Chef (which also happens to be the name of his restaurant), is excited for summer. “We’re about to build out our lunchtime specials with meal deals—think $15 combos with our signature Half-Ass Chicken Sandwich, wedges, a side of mac and cheese, plus a drink.” And for dessert: house-made brownie ice cream sandwiches. Robinson says it’s perfect for long summer days and park picnicking.
John Tory may run for mayor again. The question on everyone's minds: Why?

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Courtney Shea

Is former Toronto mayor John Tory planning a political comeback in next year’s municipal election? In a new report from the Toronto Star, various unnamed sources say Tory is currently “on the fence” about running and put his chances at “more likely than not”—but also “50/50,” “90 per cent,” and “changing by the day,” so the situation is obviously super clear.
After closing six years ago, Harlem Restaurant has returned to Queen West

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Liza Agrba

Name: HarlemContact: 745 Queen St. W., harlemrestaurant.com, @harlemrestaurantNeighbourhood: Queen WestOwners: Carl CassellChef: Sasiban KulsegaramAccessibility: Not fully accessibleIn 2006, the original Harlem opened at Church and Richmond—part restaurant, part venue and an all around buzzing creative space for Toronto’s Black community. Above the dining room, the second floor hosted live musical acts and spoken word performances. Artists from across the city came to perform and share their work.
The Cheese Boutique is throwing a CNE-style street party next month

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Erin Hershberg

Afrim Pristine, maître fromager and co-owner of Toronto’s premier cheese emporium, is hosting a charitable cheese-palooza on Canada Day, with all proceeds going to St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s mental health programs and support services. What better way to celebrate the birth of the country than by eating cheese in the name of charity?
"I don't need a megaphone courtside. I'm that loud": How Lilly Singh became the Toronto Tempo's chief hype officer

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Courtney Shea

Before you were a WNBA exec, you were a Toronto basketball fan. I seem to recall you partying during the Raptors’ 2019 championship run. I grew up enjoying the Raptors but didn’t have the means to go to games. Then superfan Nav Bhatia started letting me sit with him. I’m spoiled: I fell in love with the team watching courtside. I moved to LA in 2015 but flew back and forth during the 2019 playoffs. It was a top-five experience of my life.
Where Pearl Morissette chef Eric Robertson eats in Hamilton

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Renée Suen

When Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list was announced in May, it was a Niagara Benchlands kitchen that took the top spot. In Jordan Station, Eric Robertson and Daniel Hadida own and operate Restaurant Pearl Morissette. Already the recipient of a Michelin star—and a Michelin green star for its commitment to sustainable practices—the restaurant is also a winery, a bakery, and a 17-hectare regenerative farm, orchard and garden.
"Many of us have a Rob Ford in our lives": The director of Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem on the late politician's bewildering legacy

1 week ago | torontolife.com | Courtney Shea

It’s been over a decade since Toronto was caught in the throes of the Rob Ford crack-smoking drama—the most egregious of a multi-scandal story arc that made Toronto an easy target for late-night comedians and ended tragically with Ford’s death in 2016. Now, this chapter of recent history is being revisited in Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem, a new Netflix documentary that presents Ford as a flawed yet sympathetic anti-hero who wrote the playbook on populist politics.