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Le Cafe Vert in the Deadpool?
It looks like Le Cafe Vert has served its last meal of gluten free pancakes. The once popular Leslieville brunch and organic eats spot closed its doors on January 12th with no announced plans to re-open. A sign on the door hints that the closure may be temporary, but like nearby Kubo Radio (which will re-open as Roy's pub in the Spring) rumours abound that the restaurant is done for good.
Here's a look at the notice stuck to the front door where the owner thanks past customers for their support and friendship.
For those keeping score, this is yet another place that has succumbed to the often-fatal Restaurant Makeover.
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The food was decent but the service was absolutely terrible- slow, slow, slow.
Please fill me in on any further happenings with the owner.
Listen in order to get a former dodgy area bumping again its nice to have artists and small organic resto's. However, you need people with money(Jeff Stober with the Drake and the Zeidler's with the Gladstone) to really anchor the area as a hotspot. This is what set queen west apart from Leslieville.
@clara: ditto on pulp kitchen: terrible hours, inaccurate at best, and frustrating service
The only organic served there were the grains, everything else came from No Frills. The rats loved the food just as much as we did.
What the hell happened, they just put in 15 grand and RM matched the other so 30 grand put in for them to close, how sad and unfortunate.
The cook that was there really didn't look that happy or motivated tho either when the Chef was teaching him how to prepare new meals etc.
Shame, i just looked it up so i could try heading out and trying it out.
o well....
RM is a a death sentence for most restaurants in TO. It is really unfortunate. And just so you know they dont pump 30 grand in. It is TV.
Tv shows are in to make money, not spend it. Then these resturants give 15 grand to a project, they spend that money first. THEN they spend production cash. So if it only costs 20k to fix the place up they spend 15 from the owner and 5 from the production company.
Overall the show is Igors show. Just like Mike Holmes has his shows, Igor has RM. His company will never need to look for work while this show still exist.