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Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
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Ex–Black Hoofer Colin Tooke opens Grand Electric in Parkdale
Shortly after Jeremy Day shuttered his Parkdale wine and cheese bar Café Taste in October, rumours began to fly that someone...
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New Reviews: Pizzeria Defina, Diana’s Oyster Bar and the Hoof Cocktail Bar
Thin-crust lust in Roncey, impeccable seafood in Scarborough and double-digit cocktails on Dundas West PIZZERIA DEFINA 321...
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Grant van Gameren and Guy Rawlings take over the reins at Lucien
Six weeks or so after leaving the Black Hoof behind him, Grant van Gameren has found a new home. Alongside Brockton General’ s...
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The Black Hoof Cocktail Bar to kick off its guest chef series next Wednesday with Colin Tooke
The Black Hoof has seen a whirlwind of changes in recent months (culminating of course in co-founder and chef Grant van...
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The vodka backlash backlash is here, apparently
Today’s Globe and Mail has a piece about the anti-vodka movement, championed by people like the Black Hoof’ s Jen Agg, and the...
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Chef and co-owner Grant van Gameren leaves the Black Hoof (UPDATED)
About an hour ago on Twitter, news broke that the Black Hoof ’s founding chef and co-owner, Grant van Gameren, was no longer...
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The next stage in the saga of the former Hoof Café: the Black Hoof Cocktail Bar
Back in June, we reported that Jen Agg and Grant van Gameren ’ s ambitious plans to launch Black Hoof and Company this spring in...
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The Black Hoof’s Jen Agg takes on the latest cocktail trend—barrel aging
Inspired by the experiments of Portland bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler , forward-thinking mixologists across the continent have...
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Geoff Hopgood on leaving the Hoof empire and opening his own place (and yes, there’ll be brunch)
A while back we told you about Food Truck Eats, tomorrow’s food truck event in the Distillery District, noting the participation...
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Jen Agg announces Black Hoof and Company launch delayed until spring 2012
Black Hoof co-owner Jen Agg announced yesterday on the restaurant’s blog that chef Grant van Gameren ’s highly anticipated...
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New bacon inhaler (yes, that’s right) arrives right on trend
A couple of years back, we told you about Le Whif, a French product that allows you to taste chocolate without the hassle of...
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Pizza Gigi reopens after “cleaning up” shop
Pizza Gigi reopened suddenly yesterday, much to the delight of hungry neighbourhood residents who have been going through...
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Goodbye Hoof Café, hello Black Hoof and Company
After just over a year of bone marrow doughnut holes and lineups out the door, Toronto's most unabashedly carnivorous brunch...
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The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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A photographic tour of one of Toronto’s best brunch menus
A mere six months after opening, the brunch at the Hoof Café has become the city's most coveted (witness the lineups snaking out...
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The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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The Black Hoof and Niagara Street Café host Haiti fundraiser this week
Jen Agg, co-owner of The Black Hoof, is hosting a benefit on Wednesday to raise funds for victims of last week's devastating...
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Cora Pizza reopens, Joanne Kates picks her top restaurants, the fooderati’s top Twitterers
• U of T students, rejoice: Cora Pizza reopened its doors last week. The restaurant, a long-standing refuge of drunken...
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Just Opened: The Hoof Café melds Grant van Gameren’s charcuterie with brunch favourites and bar food
Last year, the Black Hoof ’s tiny kitchen ignited the city’s love of carnivorous delights with its bold charcuterie plates and...
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The Black Hoof trots across the street
The west end’s temple of charcuterie, The Black Hoof , is expanding. A new café under the same management will be located just...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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
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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
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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
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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
Deep Dives
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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