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Jen Agg will open a wine and cider bar in Kensington Market
The Black Hoof owner is expanding her already-impressive empire
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Food & Drink
Why Toronto’s west side has more (and better) restaurants than the east
There are plenty of great places to eat on the east side—it just hasn’t exploded the way the west has over the last five years. How come?
Food & Drink
What went down at the Kitchen Bitches conference
Following the publication of Kate Burnham’s story , alleging horrific workplace sexual harassment at Weslodge restaurant, The...
Culture
See Idina Menzel in concert, meet Gillian Anderson and six other things to do this week
Hear Idina Menzel belt “Let It Go” live Rent, Wicked, Enchanted, Glee —this American actress-musician has amassed an...
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Q&A: Jen Agg, Toronto’s most loved and loathed restaurateur
Since opening The Black Hoof in 2008, Jen Agg has established herself as one of the most influential—and divisive—restaurant...
Food & Drink
Q&A: Max Rimaldi, the Pizzeria Libretto owner who made Neapolitan pizza a thing in Toronto
In the seven years since Pizzeria Libretto first opened on Ossington, co-owner and creator Max Rimaldi has become one of the most...
Food & Drink
Mind Your Manners: 10 things you do at restaurants that chefs and owners can’t stand
When a restaurant fails on any level, everyone hears about it on social media, or Yelp, or from the latest disgruntled food...
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Summerlicious: dignified dining program or “cash-grabby food factory”?
The idea of dining out on the cheap is nice, but what is Summerlicious like from the restaurant's perspective? Sure, bargain meals...
Food & Drink
Bro-y chef culture, and four more things The Black Hoof’s Jen Agg dislikes about Toronto’s dining scene
Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind Dundas West restaurants The Black Hoof and Rhum Corner, was interviewed by tech...
Food & Drink
The Critic: Jen Agg strikes again with the city’s first haute Caribbean restaurant, Rhum Corner
Jen Agg, the woman who could make Torontonians line up for weird animal parts at the Hoof, strikes again with a new restaurant...
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Food & Drink
Recipe: Hoof Raw Bar lives on in a peppery Marmite caesar from Jen Agg
PREP TIME: 10 minutes INFUSION TIME: 1 week Serves 1 MARMITE CAESAR 1½ oz pink peppercorn–infused vodka ¼ oz Marmite, thinned...
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Hoof Raw Bar, The Black Hoof’s pescatarian offshoot, is closed
If there’s one thing Toronto restaurateur and power-tweeter Jen Agg knows, it’s how to keep things interesting. Since the...
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Five romantic Toronto bars for cocktails, conversation and hardcore canoodling
1. Cocktail Bar At Dundas West’s jazz-humming speakeasy, cocktails by owner-bartender Jen Agg—an eye-glazing barrel-aged...
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The Dish Power Rankings: buzzing diners and taco insurgents
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Dish Power Rankings: brunches and bans
Toronto Life’ s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
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The Hoof Café’s popular brunch service is back—at the Hoof Raw Bar
Over the weekend, Black Hoof owner Jen Agg tweeted a piece of news that Toronto brunchers have been waiting to hear since the cult...
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Culture
The Layover in Toronto: Anthony Bourdain’s favourite spots and best quips
For last night’s episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain and his merry crew squeezed as many of Toronto’s culinary delights...
Food & Drink
Chef swap: Jesse Grasso replaces Brandon Olsen as chef at The Black Hoof
In a note posted on The Black Hoof’ s blog, owner Jen Agg announced today that chef Brandon Olsen (who took over from Colin...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: Vice’s Munchies series takes a look at The Black Hoof
Munchies is a Vice web TV show in which the producers basically hang out with a bunch of hipster restaurateurs and chefs as they...
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New Reviews: Hoof Raw Bar, Lamesa Filipino Kitchen and Edulis
A raw seafood bar, a serious locavore bistro and Filipino fusion downtown Hoof Raw Bar 926 Dundas St. W., 647-346-9356 Jen...
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 20, because we have magicians for bartenders
Toronto has long been a city for the food obsessed, but we’ve only recently brought the same slavish worship to our booze. We...
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Introducing: Hoof Raw Bar, the new seafood addition to the Hoof family
For many Toronto food lovers, Hoof Raw Bar, the latest eatery in Jen Agg’ s burgeoning Dundas West mini-empire, came out of left...
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We engage in a little armchair speculation about who’s behind Chef Grant Soto
Who is the real “Chef Grant Soto”? The rumors started almost as soon as the oft-offensive and always entertaining Twitter...
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Best Bars: Toronto’s top 16 cocktail lounges, dives and speakeasies
CHECK OUT ALL 16 COCKTAIL PICKS » JUMP TO: BEST ROOFTOP TIPPLES | CLASSIEST DRINKS IN A DIVE | BEST DRINKS AFTER A 12-HOUR DAY |...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
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The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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