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THE CONVERSATION

Food Criticism for the Ages • Last summer’s opening of Nobu Toronto was a splashy affair. Star athletes, local celebrities, influencers and journalists like me got a chance to tour the dramatic interior, sample the menu and order a cocktail from the soaring backlit bar. In the main dining room, I spied James Chatto, Toronto Life’s restaurant critic from 1987 to 2010. As we caught up, TikTokers milled about, livestreaming their voracious consumption of miso black cod and lychee martinis.

Fare Price • Toronto will soon be the launch pad for Canada’s public grocery experiment

Fever Pitch • Sharon Bollenbach, the city’s World Cup executive director, is overseeing Toronto’s largest sporting event ever. Her biggest challenge? Convincing skeptics it was worth the money

The Loyalists • These North York points enthusiasts earn $400,000 a year. How do they spend it?

Foot Notes • Toronto is gearing up for the biggest sporting event on the planet. An everything guide to World Cup mania

Urban Adventure • After missing out on eight rentals in two days, this couple found the waterfront home of their dreams

Urban Diplomat

The City’s Best New Restaurants • Our 44th annual ranking of the best places to eat right now

Taste of the Town • A hundred pivotal moments in the annals of Toronto dining

HOOP DREAMS • NOW IT JUST HAS TO LIVE UP TO THE HYPE. INSIDE THE MAKING OF THE TEMPO

Follow the Money • THE TEMPO’S OWNERSHIP GROUP

DEAD RECKONING • WHEN SAMI AND JUNE SUOMALAINEN DIED, THE EXECUTOR OF THEIR WILLS WAS SUPPOSED TO SELL THEIR MILLION-DOLLAR MIDTOWN HOME AND SPLIT THE PROCEEDS AMONG THEIR INHERITORS. SEVEN YEARS AND SIX LAWSUITS LATER, THE ESTATE IS BANKRUPT AND THE BENEFICIARIES HAVEN’T SEEN A CENT

Eat, Drink and Be Married • Three creative couples, three uniquely personal celebrations

No Place Like Home • Kathleen Munroe, of Law & Order Toronto fame, filled her Roncy loft with sentimental objects

Hailey Gillis’s Beaches • The Dora-winning actor takes us on a tour of her favourite haunts

Stylebook • The swankiest partygoers at this year’s Biblio Bash

The Hot List • Our monthly compendium of current obsessions

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Tile and Error • I started playing mahjong to make new friends. It brought me closer to my culture than I’d ever been