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Food & Drink
Into the Fold: Toronto’s eight best tacos, from the traditional to the tricked-out
Here, the best of the spicy, messy bunch Start the slide show »
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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...
Food & Drink
More details on Chris Cosentino’s trip to Toronto
A few weeks back we noticed that Chris Cosentino, chef at San Francisco offal temple Incanto, was tweeting about his visit to...
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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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L’Ouvrier set to open on Dundas West in September; hard workers invited
Dundas West’s hipster restaurant row is about to get yet another new addition to its ranks. Behind L’Ouvrier are Justine...
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Offal king Chris Cosentino smells Toronto’s Chinatown from three blocks away
Chris Cosentino, America’s reigning king of offal and chef at San Francisco’s nose-to-tail mecca Incanto, is currently in...
Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Tosho Knife Arts, the new Mirvish village mecca for fans of Japanese blades
Sitting down with knife enthusiasts Olivia Go and Ivan Fonseca , we couldn’t help but flash back to Kill Bill: Vol. 1 , when Uma...
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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...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $900,000 for a two-storey Trinity Bellwoods townhome
ADDRESS : 1-257 Euclid Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD : Trinity Bellwoods AGENT : Stacey Robinson , Royal LePage Real Estate Services...
Food & Drink
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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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 28, Sweetbreads are the new chicken nuggets
When nose-to-tail restaurants like Cowbell and the Black Hoof started serving offal a few years back, diners debated the...
Culture
Top Chef Canada: season two casting call
Although we’re only halfway through season one of Top Chef Canada, it looks like Food Network Canada has already decided to sign...
Food & Drink
Check out liquid nitrogen–poached doughnuts and other molecular miracles from a recent Modernist Cuisine demo
What’s it like to sear caramel on a -34 °C anti-griddle, poach doughnuts in liquid nitrogen (around -196 °C), or use low...
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Greatest Hits: Chris Nuttall-Smith picks the 25 most delicious dishes of the last year
The 25 most delicious dishes tasted this year, ranging from lowbrow comforts (potato puffballs) to high-minded masterpieces...
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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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Gordon Ramsay praises Black Hoof in Food Network interview
Gordon Ramsay , the British chef known for his passion (read: yelling profanities) in the kitchen, has heaped even more praise on...
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Introducing: Campagnolo, the new meat-loving spot on Dundas West’s carnivore row
After 2010, it’s hard to remember what a sad little patch of real estate once existed along Dundas West, between Bathurst and...
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Introducing: Porchetta and Co., the new sandwich shop that’s turning Dundas West into a carnivore’s carnival
Like Ossington and Harbord before it, Dundas Street West keeps surprising us with new cafés, bars and restaurants. The latest is...
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Spotted! Gordon Ramsay dining (and tipping decently) at the Black Hoof
If you’ve ever wondered just how devoted the Black Hoof is to its no-reservations policy, consider this: when chef-owner Grant...
Culture
Indies thriving in Canada says Daydream Nation director
Whoever says high school is the best time of your life obviously never went to high school in Arva. The small town—population...
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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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