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The Black Hoof
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Grey Gardens review: Jen Agg divides opinion, but it’s hard to deny that her new Kensington Market restaurant is a casually sophisticated success
It's her most ambitious Toronto project since the Black Hoof
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The Black Hoof is temporarily closed and Cocktail Bar is expanding
As of April 1, the Hoof will have a new kitchen and Cocktail Bar will have more seats
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These are the best dishes of the year, according to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs
Jen Agg, Rob Gentile, Patrick Kriss and more of the city's top chefs, dish on their favourite meals of the year
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The 13 best restaurants in Trinity Bellwoods and Little Italy right now
Our highest-rated restaurants in these two 'hoods
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What’s on the menu at CXBO, a colourful new sweet shop in Brockton Village
Bonbons, caramels and fruit jellies as if designed by Jackson Pollock and Buckminster Fuller.
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What’s on the menu at Le Pavillon, Luminato’s fancy French pop-up in a power plant
For 17 days in June, the Hearn Generating Station is a fine-dining destination
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The 10 biggest moments in Toronto restaurants in the last 50 years
The openings, chefs and dishes that mattered most
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Eight ways to eat heart in Toronto on Valentine’s Day
This weekend, treat someone special to chicken (or duck or horse or bison) ticker
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Ex–Bar Isabel chef Brandon Olsen is opening a chocolate shop in Brockton Village
While he might be known for his work with foie gras and fried chicken, his true love is sugar
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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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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?
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Weird and Wonderful: Natural wines, the funky punk-rock stars of the wine world, are coming into vogue
Purists will love the idea of natural wines. They’re made from grapes that are grown using organic practices, for starters, but...
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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...
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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...
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Meathead: Grant van Gameren is Toronto’s hottest chef, and he’s about to prove it again
Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren’s latest project, is named after a seedy neighbourhood in Barcelona. You wouldn’t know it from...
Culture
Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
Drop
by the Princess of Wales Theatre
In the gritty crime drama The Drop , living meat man Tom Hardy plays a Brooklyn bartender drawn into the seedy Chechen crime...
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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...
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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...
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Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s drop-in, heart-obsessed Valentine’s Day feast
For those whose Valentine’s Day plans haven’t quite panned out, take heart—literally. For this weekend only, the offal...
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Must-Try: The Black Hoof’s apple skillet cake has a surprisingly salty topper
The Black Hoof, the Dundas West bistro from restaurateur Jen Agg, is famous for amping familiar dishes with unusual, offal-centric...
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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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Trend We Hate: lineups
Ever since the late aughts, when Pizzeria Libretto, The Black Hoof and Guu opened with strict no-reservations policies, lineups...
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The Dish Power Rankings: muddied waters edition
Toronto Life’s roundup of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to snag. After four...
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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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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions