NEXT JEN

Why Canada’s ballsiest foodtrepreneur is never not hustling.

toronto restaurateur Jen Agg is the living embodiment of SHOUTY text. And we mean that as a compliment. When she’s passionate about something—whether it’s her restaurant empire (the Black Hoof is the reason you are obsessed with cocktails and charcuterie right now), equality or even nachos—she’s unapologetic and unapologetically loud about it. “Don’t hate me for running my business the same way men run theirs” is her call to arms—one of many in her memoir/feminist manifesto, I Hear She’s a Real Bitch (out May 16). We asked Agg, who just added Grey Gardens to her roster of buzzy restos, which includes Cocktail Bar and Rhum Corner in Toronto and Agrikol in Montreal (a venture with Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne), to tell us what’s on her radar.