Big News!

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We've got a new name!

Big News! 🎉 We've got a new name!

Mess Hall is now The Magpie Incubator. Same mission, fresh new name.

We’re here to support Toronto’s east-end food community with commercial kitchen rentals, pop-up opportunities, and business support for bakers and food entrepreneurs.

The new name brings everything we do—bakeshop, baking school, and incubator—under one roof, reflecting the growth of our community and the businesses we’re proud to support.

Stay tuned for more sweet details about what we’re baking up!

Want to grow your food business? Learn more about our incubator program.
Craving something sweet? See what’s fresh at the bakeshop.
Ready to bake with us? Check out our baking workshops and events.

Libby and Maggie celebrate the re-naming of Mess Hall to The Magpie Incubator with a macaron cheers

Kitchen Rentals and Support for Food Entrepreneurs.

Food has a way of bringing us together. From birth it connects us, we have stories about it, we nurture others with it and we use it to share joy.

Mess Hall is a place to gather around food. Whether it’s attending a baking class, discovering a cool new food startup, or enjoying a coffee break with neighbours and friends, this place is for you.

We’re a space where Leslieville enjoys great coffee and supports local dreams!

Kitchen Residency

Attention bakers and makers! We’re accepting applications for new residents in our kitchen community. Residents share kitchen and studio space to produce goods, do R&D, take photos, host pop-ups, test concepts and menus, or anything else one might need in a kitchen share.

If you’re interested, please fill out the application and let’s talk!

Kitchen Incubator Residency Application

A Sweeter way to Celebrate!

Join in the fun with The Magpie Cakery Baking School

Maggie Frith, local East End mom and Semi-Finalist on Season 4 of the Great Canadian Baking Show shares her passion for baking as she brings bakers of all ages together in entertaining and delicious workshops and private events.

What we’re up to on Instagram.

View fullsize ✨ More Women in Business, More Women in Food ✨ The Magpie Incubator exists for one reason: to make sure more women-led food businesses have the space and support to thrive. We know that starting a food business isn’t just about talent—i
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View fullsize ✨ New Year, New Beginnings! ✨ As we said goodbye to 2024 and welcomed 2025, our cozy little corner was glowing with warmth, community, and possibility. 🌙☕️🍰 This year, we’re brewing up something big! Changes are in the works for Mess Hall
View fullsize 🎁✨ Last-Minute Gift Idea: Tea Blending Workshop! ✨🎁 Looking for a unique, thoughtful gift? Treat the tea lover in your life (or yourself!) to an evening of creativity and relaxation at The Magpie Cakery Coffee and Bakeshop. 🫖 Tea Blending Worksh
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Host your event.

Looking for a place to gather with friends and family? Our cooking studio and event space is perfect for hosting dinner parties, work socials, birthday parties (kids and grownups too!), corportate team building - whatever you’re celebrating.

Rent our Kitchen.

The Magpie Incubator is a commercial kitchen co-working space for Toronto’s growing food community. Join our small food producers - from food start-ups, caterers, sauce makers, spice mixers, cakers and bakers, to well seasoned chefs. Come create and share your food dreams.