Katherine Ashenburg weighs in on the latest sites and eats in Toronto, for the New York Times:

Just a year ago, the Rolling Stones came to town for a celebratory Toronto's-back-in-business concert and announced that the city was "a gas." This summer, their optimism seems justified. Tourists are returning, and taxi drivers and hoteliers are happier...Tourists or not, it's been a lively year. Toronto is in an architectural ferment, with a new Opera House going up, and additions or renovations - or both - moving along at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. At the Royal Ontario, the makeover is designed by Daniel Liebeskind, while Frank Gehry, a native son, is directing the Art Gallery of Ontario's redesign.