Toronto Life

05/06/2025

To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals.

Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit:

To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a...

04/11/2025

Save the date and prepare your appetite for Toronto Life's Best Restaurants on May 12 at the Evergreen Brick Works. Buy your tickets now at

Toronto Life's Best Restaurants event is back this May! Toronto Life’s iconic Best Restaurants event, presented by Uber Eats, is back on May 12, 2025, at the Evergreen Brick Works. Save the date and prepare your appetite for an immersive culinary experience, featuring talented chefs as well as the...

12/18/2024

A meal at Eric Chong's Akin is 10 courses and three hours long, with dishes drawing inspiration from the cuisines of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Japan

Including a molecular interpretation of hot pot

12/17/2024

What house off Major Mac would be complete without a great glass floor, an ecclesiastical kitchen, a pop art mural and an outdoor pizza oven?

12/17/2024

Internationally acclaimed Franco-Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan dreams of making Palestinian cuisine a mainstream choice

It’s home cooking, modernized (but not molecular)

12/17/2024

Cait Alexander was beaten by her partner and left for dead in their Leaside home. Despite overwhelming evidence, the case never went to trial for one simple reason: it took too long

In 2021, I was beaten by my partner and left for dead in our Leaside home. Despite overwhelming evidence, the case never went to trial for one simple reason:...

12/16/2024

After a Barbados elopement, this couple hosted a 50-person destination wedding in Morocco with fire performances and belly dancers in a private villa

Inside a regal celebration at a Moroccan estate

12/16/2024

Save for a truffle shaving or two, the pasta dishes that fire out of the kitchen at Occhiolino are mostly proletariat but extremely high quality

Including oodles of house-made noodles and fancy pork and beans

12/16/2024

For those who aren’t inclined to read all 941 pages of the auditor general's report, we present a holiday-themed guide to the six most ho-ho-holy crap revelations, complete with lumps of coal

Lumps of coal included

12/12/2024

This Italian-Canadian event series is for people who are hungry for experiences that are familiar and informal—less sit-down restaurant, more Nonna’s kitchen party

It’s a love letter to Italian grandmothers

12/12/2024

Pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men’s pro team in Canada, on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club

The world’s best woman pitcher on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club, breaking into the sport as a young girl and why she’s crossing the world to...

12/12/2024

Andrea Werhun was the head consultant on Sean Baker’s buzzy new film, Anora, about a young s*x worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch

The writer, performer and s*x worker advocate talks working with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison, the truest moments in the film and how the city can make...