35 h. ago Here are some Toronto laundromats that also serve coffee and snacks

Doing your chores can really work up an appetite, which is why these Toronto laundromats double as restaurants, cafes and ice cream parlours.Perpetually spilling ice cream and coffee on your shirt? Us too, but it doesn't have to be a trip-back-home-to-change level emergency.From swanky, upscale dry cleaners with full-service cafes inside to hole-in-the-wall snack bars hidden behind the facade of a retro coin-operated laundromat, these cafes are bringing you the best of both worlds, all with that novelty spin that the city can't seem to get enough of.Here are four cafes in Toronto that just so happen to double as laundromats::Creeds Coffee BarArguably the innovators of the laundry-cafe concept in Toronto, this dry cleaner and coffee shop comes with a history of more than a century in the making. Jesse MilnsWe'll spare you all the details, but nowadays, all you need to know is that you can drop off a load of dry cleaning at before knocking back an Americano all w...

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3 d. ago Toronto's newest seafood spot is a joint venture from some iconic local restaurant owners

One Toronto neighbourhood is about to get a new go-to seafood restaurant, and it's coming courtesy of a local culinary dream team.If you find yourself faced with some serious seafood cravings this month, set your sights on Summerhill. There, sometime around mid-August, you'll discover Seahorse, a new seafood restaurant by a team that can only be described as Toronto's culinary Avengers.Individually, though, they're known as Richard Renaud (Piano Piano, Speducci Mercatto), Simon Bower (Lucien, Mercer Street Grill), and 11-time oyster-shucking champion Eamon Clark, who also just so happens to be a member of the Rodney's Oyster House family. We mean that literally — the titular Rodney is his father.Bower told us that, when it came to assembling the group, so to speak, the key players were a no-brainer. It also helps that both Renaud and Clark are longtime friends of Bower's."I met Richard about six or seven year...

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4 d. ago Tacos from this Toronto restaurant were just ranked best in the city

Tacos from a Mexican restaurant in Toronto were just voted the best in the entire city, so here's everything you need to know about them.Another annual Toronto TacoFest has come and gone, leaving a tortilla crumb trail of carnage in its wake. While taco lovers across the city are nursing their birria-induced food comas, one taco joint in the city is busy celebrating its newly minted title as the creator of the best taco in Toronto.According to the scores of attendees at the food festival, at least.From Friday, Aug. 8 to Sunday, Aug. 11, dozens of local Mexican restaurants joined forces with food fanatics in the thousands to spend a weekend consuming as many tacos (among other things) as their bodies would allow.On the last day of the festival, the pièce de résistance came in the form of a golden taco trophy awarded to the local taqueria that won the majority of votes from attendees.This year, it went to Kensington Market force Birria C...

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4 d. ago New Korean spot in Toronto is such a hit that it's had to impose a daily customer limit

A recently opened Korean restaurant in Toronto has gotten so popular so quickly that they’re already having to turn guests away.North York's Nakwon Kisa Restaurant at 4895 Yonge Street is so new to the neighbourhood that you may not have even known it was there. For those in the know, however, it's already become one of the city's hottest (and hardest to get) meals in the short month that it's been open.The latest location in a three-and-a-half restaurant chain called Nakwon, which also has haunts in Markham, North York, and Richmond Hill, Nakwon Kisa is not only a new concept for the chain, but quite possibly also its most popular.While the elder three locations operate as full-service Korean restaurants replete with bibimbap, pork bone soup, all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue and hot plate offerings, Nakwon Kisa is something of an outlier.Inspired by quick-service gisa sikdang restaurants in Korea, Nikwan Kisa serves up a ...

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5 d. ago Upscale Toronto restaurant lowers menu prices amid economic pressures

A Toronto restaurant known for its elevated dining offerings is slashing its prices to better fit customers' shrinking budgets.For many Toronto residents, their wallets are feeling increasingly light amid skyrocketing inflation, cost of living, and tariffs. No matter what your job pays you, you're likely feeling the pinch these days, and often, a shrinking budget means that eating out at restaurants is among the first expenses on the chopping block.It's a reality that former Top Chef Canada winner and current owner of the Financial District's Richmond Station, Carl Heinrich, knows all too well.For the past 13 years, Richmond Station has stood as a neighbourhood staple at 1 Richmond St. W, emphatic in its assertion that it isn't a fine dining restaurant, per se, but rather a restaurant that cooks and serves its food properly. It's an undeniably upscale restaurant, with dinner entrées in the $30 to $50 ra...

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5 d. ago New Italian restaurant from renowned Toronto restaurateurs is their best yet

A pair of Toronto restaurateurs closed down their previous restaurant to make way for a new spot in Little Italy. It was a great choice.Restaurateur Michael Sangregorio and Chef Fabio Bondi are no strangers to the Toronto food scene. In fact, they're currently on their third restaurant as a duo after shuttering their previous venture, the Junction's Lucia, to make way for their new project.It's called Sal's Pasta and Chops, and it opened its doors in the heart of Little Italy this past July.An unpretentious, comfortable spot lined with plush banquettes and framed black and white photos, it's a welcome addition to the neighbourhood, and perhaps Sangregorio and Bondi's best project yet. A healthy amount of its success can be attributed to the passion behind the project.The sons of two Italian fathers — both named Sal, hence the restaurant's name — Sangregorio and Bondi created Sal's as a love letter to the Italian-Canadian cui...

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5 d. ago Former Toronto Raptor Pascal Siakam surprises restaurant by paying everyone's bill

Former Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam certainly made sure the visitors to one fast food spot would never forget their meal.On a recent trip to Grenada, Siakam decided he was in the mood for the local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, and chose to pay for everyone else's meal in line as well."We don't want attention," Siakam said, perhaps somewhat ironically, in a clip he uploaded to his social media channels. "They're saying the Caribbean KFC is different, so I'm trying to see what it's about."P in 🇬🇩 — this is not an ad @kfc pic.twitter.com/WkSz8vLZuT— pascal siakam (@pskills43) August 8, 2025"I just wanted some chicken," Siakam said. "I haven't had KFC in a long time… probably since college.""This is the first time in history that anyone has ever purchased meals for everyone in the building," a worker in the video shared. "Our menu is sort of different to the ot...

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8 d. ago Top Toronto restaurant opening new stall inspired by summer backyard barbecues

One of Toronto's most unique Michelin-recommended restaurants is about to launch a new kebab stall inspired by summertime backyard barbecues.The news that the teams behind two Michelin-approved restaurants (on top of Bear Steak Sandwiches, another local favourite) in Toronto would soon be joining the already impressive ranks of The Well's Wellington Market food hall thrilled scores of local food fans in early July.At the time, the food hall announced that the teams behind both Baldwin Village's Koh Lipe and Yonge and St. Clair's Taline (Toronto's only Michelin-recommended Armenian restaurant) had new, fast-casual concepts in the works. In the case of Koh Lipe, it was Kao Kang, a venture from owner Patrick Sukasen, centred around Thai comfort foods.At the time, the details around the other project from the Yacoubian brothers, the owners and chefs behind Taline, remained tightly guarded. Now, we finally have our answer.O...

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9 d. ago Secret sausage business quietly supplying some of Toronto's trendiest restaurants

An under-the-radar sausage business run by a Toronto chef is making waves at some of the city's most buzzy new restaurants.Ever find yourself sitting at a restaurant, wondering how the sausage gets made? Not in a metaphorical way, but literally, how the sausage you're currently eating was actually made? Moreover, who made it?Maybe that's a niche experience that only we've had, but we think that sausages and the people who make them deserve more respect. After all, it's a messy business, but someone's got to do it, for the greater good of pizzas, sandwiches and barbecues everywhere.One such sausage-maker is Ferdi's Foods, which, despite only having come into existence in early 2025, is already making a splash on Toronto's food scene, supplying sausages to a selection of noteworthy restaurants in the city.Ferdi's quick success (which is only growing, might we add) is largely, if not exclusively, due to its founder, Theo, who, before s...

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1 week ago Kehlani shouts out Toronto restaurant for 'best Vietnamese food I've ever had'

A Toronto restaurant is reaching new heights after getting a huge shout-out from R&B star Kehlani following a performance in the city.All it took was one taste of pho from an Ontario institution for singer/songwriter Kehlani to start saying "I Like Dat," going as far as posting about it on TikTok.What restaurant could have elicited such an enthusiastic reaction from the superstar? None other than the third and most recent location of Mississauga-founded Vietnamese food staple, Pho Ngoc Yen.The chain, which boasts locations in Mississauga, Etobicoke, and, most recently, in downtown Toronto on Adelaide, the latter of which was the location that Kehlani visited following a performance at Cabana Pool Bar in celebration of Caribana.To say that the singer enjoyed their meal would be a major understatement.@kehlani i’m finna start Life wit a Back Back Taurus series. TORONTO ILL BE DREAMING OF U PHO NGOC YEN! on Adelaide W lol @Towfu @Jamie-Lee B. ♬ original sound - Kehl...

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4 w. ago Toronto restaurant owner fighting to keep business alive after being hacked

The owner of a family-run restaurant in Toronto is fighting to keep the business alive after hackers took hold of his social media accounts.The morning of July 7 started off like any other for Julian Morana, the owner of Toronto's longstanding Bar Volo and its spinoffs Bottega Vol0, Birreria Volo, and Keep6 Imports. Little did he know, it would spiral into a weeks-long headache that would put his businesses and livelihood at risk."I have a newborn baby, so I was up quite early, and I had noticed Facebook advertisement charges on our business Amex," Morana explains, "and I don't remember the last time I had posted a sponsored ad, so I thought that was peculiar."Upon further investigation, Morana discovered not only that there were multiple charges for Facebook advertising on the card, but that the daily spending limit had been increased and was only rising.His first instinct was to flag the activity to Amex, but when he t...

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4 w. ago Acclaimed Toronto chef taking over former home of legendary Italian restaurant

Toronto was shocked to learn that a legendary Italian restaurant was closing down, but its new owners plan to carry the torch well.Little Italy locals and other diners across the city were gutted earlier this July to learn that, after two decades in business, College Street stalwart Vivoli had closed down permanently.At the time, the Vivoli team didn't offer much explanation behind why, after two fruitful decades, the beloved restaurant was shutting down, nor any hints towards what might be coming next. It wasn't until the new owners of the building contacted us that we finally had our answer — and, we're pleased to confirm, it's something to get excited about.The new owner of the former Vivoli restaurant space is none other than respected Toronto chef Adam Pereira, who plans to breathe new life into the location while still honouring its roots with his latest venture.The mastermind behind St. Clair West's Cano since 2017, Pereira couldn'...

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