Pompette has been through more transformations than most Toronto restaurants experience in a lifetime, and every iteration has made it more interesting. What started as a simple cocktail and wine bar with snacks in April 2020 evolved through pandemic pressures into a French restaurant, then became Vinoteca Pompette with a distinctive green exterior — and […]
Grant van Gameren is one of the most influential names in Toronto’s restaurant industry. The force behind Bar Raval, El Rey Mezcal Bar, Martine’s Wine Bar and Harry’s Charbroiled has shaped the city’s dining culture in ways that are hard to overstate. Now, he’s doing something new — and the city’s food community is paying […]
When Kramer’s Bar & Grill closed its doors in Davisville Village in the summer of 2025, it marked the end of a beloved neighbourhood era. But as it turns out, the team behind Kramer’s wasn’t stepping away from the restaurant industry — they were quietly preparing something far more ambitious: not one, but three new […]
Toronto never needs much of an excuse to throw a party, and Cinco de Mayo 2026 proved that the city knows how to celebrate in spectacular fashion. From rooftop takeovers and live mariachi to circus-inspired activations and creative margarita programs, the city delivered a week’s worth of events that made the most of the tequila-soaked […]
There’s a quiet revolution happening on King Street West, and it has everything to do with what time kitchens close. When Portland Square opened in summer 2025, INK Entertainment founder Charles Khabouth made a deliberate decision: two of the four restaurants inside the building — Honey Chinese and Prima Donna — would stay open until […]
Winterlicious has always been a beloved fixture of Toronto’s dining calendar, but 2026’s edition is shaping up to be the most successful the festival has ever seen. Just days into the prix-fixe event, restaurants across the city reported exceptional turnout — and more than that, the arrival of first-time visitors who were returning again after […]
Toronto’s restaurant scene is in one of those glorious phases where there are simply too many good options and not enough nights to try them all. This week’s new openings represent the full diversity of the city’s culinary imagination, spread across neighbourhoods and cuisines and price points that make it genuinely difficult to choose where […]
If you follow food culture online, you know that a Keith Lee visit can change a restaurant’s trajectory overnight. The wildly popular food reviewer — who famously broke the Toronto internet during his 2024 tour of the city’s restaurants — returned to Toronto in March 2026, and his first stop was a statement in itself: […]
Origin was one of the restaurants that defined Toronto dining in the 2010s. Claudio Aprile — celebrity chef, MasterChef Canada judge and culinary force of nature — opened the concept in 2010 and built it into a cultural landmark before closing both locations in 2017. Nearly a decade later, the concept is making a comeback, […]
Leslieville’s culinary scene keeps delivering surprises, and the latest is Bar Etc. — a new “tropical in essence” cocktail bar that’s about to bring something genuinely exciting to a neighbourhood already building serious momentum on the Toronto food and drink map. Set to open at 1036 Gerrard St., Bar Etc. is a collaboration between sommelier […]