Every summer, the conversation about Toronto’s best rooftop bars starts fresh, as if the city needs reminding. It doesn’t. Lavelle, on Adelaide Street West, remains the benchmark against which every other elevated outdoor experience in the city is measured — and the spring and summer of 2026 are giving it every opportunity to remind everyone […]
Summer in Toronto is peak frozen-treat season, and while classic ice cream will always have its place, the city’s dessert scene has evolved well beyond the cone. Here are six frozen treats worth hunting down when the heat hits and you want something a little different. The options range from dairy-free soft-serve in tropical flavours […]
Toronto’s dining scene has had a complicated relationship with Asian fusion over the years — sometimes brilliant, sometimes cynical, rarely indifferent. NOYAA, one of the city’s newest upscale offerings, makes a compelling case for the concept done right: a restaurant where dramatic interiors and modern dishes designed for sharing create an experience that’s more than […]
The story behind Eloise is as interesting as the restaurant itself. Graham and Dan Hnatiw — the brothers who grew up in the shadow of the Old Spaghetti Factory, the family business their parents built into a Canadian institution — have opened something at once deeply personal and completely unexpected. Located on the Esplanade, Eloise […]
The Broadview Hotel has been one of Toronto’s most compelling destinations since its meticulous restoration transformed a Victorian-era building in Riverside into a boutique hotel with genuine character. Now, the hotel’s new restaurant concept — Archie’s — gives east-enders another compelling reason to make the neighbourhood a regular destination. Named after the hotel’s original builder, […]
Toronto’s Financial District has never lacked for steakhouses, but it has sometimes lacked for steakhouses with genuine personality. Riley’s Fish + Steak, which opened on Wellington Street in April 2026, brings the kind of Michelin-recommended pedigree typically associated with Vancouver’s dining scene to the heart of downtown Toronto — and the result is exactly as […]
There are restaurants that arrive with a concept, and there are restaurants that arrive with a point of view. Brasserie Côte, the new Annex opening from the team behind Côte de Boeuf and Union Restaurant, belongs firmly in the second category. Ranked second on Toronto Life’s 2026 best-new-restaurants list, it’s already being talked about as […]
Toronto’s nightlife landscape is about to get a whole lot more rhinestone-studded. The team behind the beloved Old Spaghetti Factory is planning to open a massive country bar in the city — and the inspiration is none other than Dolly Parton herself. The project represents a significant pivot for an operator known for family-friendly Italian […]
The Annex just got a genuinely exciting new arrival. Bellis, a Japanese- and Italian-inspired dining bar inside the newly opened Nomas Hotel, brings a sophisticated dual-concept energy to the neighbourhood that feels both fresh and surprisingly well-calibrated for the space it occupies. What makes Bellis unusual — and immediately appealing — is its commitment to […]
Planta, the Toronto-founded plant-based restaurant group that helped define upscale vegan dining in Canada, has announced it is closing all of its Canadian locations and pivoting its future to the United States. It’s a bittersweet moment for a city that helped build the brand from the ground up. The group made waves when it launched […]