I admit, I haven’t visited since around 2006. I liked the Dundas St Chinatown location in 2003/2004.
I haven’t eaten any XLB since a visit to Ding Tai Fung in Scarborough around May 2018.
Boom Breakfast St Clair is closing. This is their last week. The landlord says they’re taking it over to start their own business. I suspect this is going to be the latest Toronto landlord scam along the lines of “my family needs that rental property.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-8mjqrShYD/
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Don’t believe everything you read online, there’s aways 2 sides to every story…
Oh, and the Vaughan location is also closed.
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And the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
A lot of restaurants are having cashflow problems and trouble making rent.
Especially hard for relatively affordable spots with table service, when a trendy sandwich shop without table service or tables can charge $12-$15 for a breakfast sandwich, while Boom and affordable diners can’t really price things beyond what their market will bear.
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A commercial landlord can’t just break a lease because they want to open their own business, there’s other reasons at play here. Once the lease expires, they can do whatever they want.
I have it on very good authority that the landlord negotiated a buyout of the remaining two years on the lease, agreed to by both parties.
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I have zero knowledge about Boom’s situation.
My comment was a general one about midrange greasy spoons in the current market
I went to the Eglinton location of Boom once, and I went to the College St location once.
Well now you know the truth, you’re welcome 
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Lol.
I’m surprised no one has corrected Boom’s story in the Instagram comments yet.
They have, and he just deletes them
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Phyllo Café on Pape is closing due to the Metrolinx construction. It will reopen elsewhere at some point. The article doesn’t mention where it will reopen.
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Follow up: a notice has popped up that appears to imply Golden Court is “scheduled to reopen” as Purple Orchid Seafood Cuisine on September 9th. Owner of Golden Court says it’s not them.
The notice goes on to say “We promise to do better” but better than who? A quick google of Purple Orchid Seafood Cuisine returns no such restaurant by this name, so what is re-opening? The telephone number on the notice is a cell phone number.
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No Dinesafe inspection record, no dice.
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Wow! This may be the first case ever of a Toronto landlord being the good guy.
I know some nice landlords, believe it or not.
Were they from Toronto? I am ever so glad to never have to deal with them again.
Yep.
I have friends and relatives who are landlords in Scarborough, East York, Mississauga, London ON. Prince Albert.
One of my friends, who is a midrange Thai resto restaurateur, is also a residential landlord. It’s not like he is rolling in dough. He is doing okay. He lives in a modest condo.
I’ve rented 5 different apartments in Toronto since 1997.
I’ve had one horrible landlord experience in Toronto, and that landlady lived overseas. My other 4 landlords for my apartments in Toronto have been based in Toronto or Windsor, and they have been okay, if not great.
Plenty of asshole landlords and plenty of good ones, but you never hear about the good ones only the shitty ones.
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I was renting houses. Its a different ballgame. 3 for 3 atrocious landlords.
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55 years is a good run.
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