Karen Kwan, Author at NUVO

Three Top-Tier Spots in Toronto to Level Up Your Wellness Routine

From a modern hot/cold-therapy hub to a sleek fitness mecca to an intense Pilates workout, there are three new players on Toronto’s wellness scene.

New Toronto Hot Spots for Delicious Asian Cuisine

Toronto foodies will tell you to venture to the city’s suburbs (Markham, in particular) to enjoy Asian cuisine, but over the past few months, some hot spots with modern takes on Asian dishes, great service, and spot-on design have opened downtown, setting them apart from old Chinatown favourites.

The Weighted-Blanket Pros Have Set Up Shop in Toronto

A good night’s sleep is the ultimate luxury, and after five years and over 300,000 blankets sold, Hush has perfected the art of promoting sleep.

Banff Gets Bold With Brazen

This restaurant from Pursuit Banff Jasper Collection pays homage to its past as a gathering spot for adventurers—thus its name—while highlighting its contemporary aesthetic.

The Obsession With this Racquet Sport is Real

George and Amal Clooney are into it. The Kardashians have tried it, too. Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly indulges daily. What’s got these celebs, just a fraction of the growing legion of fans around the world, captivated? Pickleball.

Diptyque Opens Its First Canadian Boutique

Diptyque, the luxury fragrance house from France, has opened up its first Canadian boutique. Its coveted fragrances can be discovered in a Parisian apartment setting in Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre.

W Hotel Lands in Toronto

Nearly 25 years since W Hotel opened in New York City, Toronto gets its own outpost in the city’s Yorkville neighbourhood.

With the Arrival of Casa Madera, Toronto’s Restaurant Scene Goes Coastal

Casa Madera, inside the fetching 1 Hotel Toronto, could well be a see-and-be-seen type of restaurant–if only the food and drinks weren’t stealing the show with their theatrics.

Contactless, Automated Restaurant Openings in Toronto

We may not all have flying cars and robotic housekeepers just yet, but slick, contactless, automated hot spots are popping up around Toronto making life in the city a little more Jetsons-esque.

What Is Caremongering? And Why Is It So Uniquely Canadian?

Although we should’ve been able to predict this, given our reputation for being kind and generous folk, Canadians are uniting in a grassroots movement to help one another out during the coronavirus outbreak, in what has been dubbed “caremongering.”