Mexican street food reborn in the market, a greasy spoon–less diner on Dupont, and Liberty Village’s latest bistro
Agave y Aguacate 
214 Augusta Ave., 647-208-3091
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Chef-owner Francisco Alejandri’s excellent food stall is the headliner in a shoestring–budget Latin American food court in Kensington Market. It consists of little more than a stainless steel prep table with a deep fryer, two induction burners, a small refrigerator, a toaster and a food processor. Alejandri, who wears a suave white Panama hat while he works, is an exceedingly good cook. He does a fantastic flank steak salad—the meat, sliced into thin strips, is tossed with tomatoes, red chilies, red onion, cilantro and lime juice, then garnished with house-fried tortilla chips. It makes for a brilliant lunch. The lime charlotte is better than most desserts you get in proper restaurants: the sweet-sour lime curd and Maria cookies are decadent but light with a squirt of lime juice and a drizzle of arbequina olive oil. Wait times can exceed 20 minutes but the trade-off is that the place is incredibly cheap. It would be thrilling to see what Alejandri would do with more space and a properly equipped kitchen. Closed Monday.
How can there still be reporters who are surprised to discover that English Canada hasn’t warmed to the Bloc Québécois being in parliament? This piece from the Toronto Star reports that “the current election campaign appears to be opening up a deep vein of anger in English Canada toward the Bloc Québécois,” but what struck us is how little evidence is given to support the theory. There’s a bit about negative reactions to Gilles Duceppe during the leaders debate, but for academic heft, the Star gives us this:
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