{"id":4021,"date":"2022-01-25T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:52:21","slug":"destroying-my-life-owner-of-famous-toronto-restaurant-has-popular-patio-shut-down-by-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/destroying-my-life-owner-of-famous-toronto-restaurant-has-popular-patio-shut-down-by-city\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Destroying my life&#8217;: Owner of famous Toronto restaurant has popular patio shut down by city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/destroying-my-life-owner-of-famous-toronto-restaurant-has-popular-patio-shut-down-by-city-1.5752353\">TVNews<\/a> &#8211; The owner of one of Toronto\u2019s longest-standing restaurants, who was using his patio as a means of keeping his business alive during Ontario\u2019s most recent COVID-19 lockdown, says the city has forced him to close the popular outdoor space.<\/p><blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CYhNrtdAQzi\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"margin-left: auto;\"> <div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div> <div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div> <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\"> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div> <div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CYhNrtdAQzi\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Caf\u00e9 Diplomatico (@cafedip)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to run my business anymore,\u201d Caf\u00e9 Diplomatico owner Rocco Mastrangelo Jr. told CTV News Toronto over the phone. \u201cEvery day, we\u2019re on pins and needles. We don\u2019t know if [we\u2019re going to be ordered to] close or open. Like, this is really screwing with people\u2019s heads and livelihoods.\u201d<\/p><p>Mastrangelo took over the College Street landmark 27 years ago that his father, Rocco Mastrangelo Sr.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/founder-of-popular-toronto-caf%C3%A9-dies-aged-88-1.5406106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who died last year at 88<\/a>, started back in 1968.<\/p><p>However, according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/regulation\/r21216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Reopening Ontario Act&nbsp;<\/a>(ROA), outdoor patios are only permitted so long as two full sides of the area are open to the outdoors. If the patio has a retractable roof, which Caf\u00e9 Dip does, and the roof is retracted, the patio must have at least one full side of the outdoor area open to the outdoors.<\/p><p>The patio was shut down last week by the city, and Mastrangelo said he\u2019s been served with notices to comply and notices of violation.<\/p><p>Mastrangelo acknowledges that the space was not in compliance with those rules, and says he is working to reopen the space on Jan. 31, but admits the space is virtually useless if temperatures drop significantly.<\/p><p>\u201cThis is destroying my life, my family, my wife, my kids, my mother\u2019s getting sick,\u201d Mastrangelo said. \u201cIf I\u2019m doing something wrong, which I agree I was, I was doing it to come back and be viable, give my staff employment so that they can feed their families and give my customers a place to go.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cPeople are tired of this. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p><p>In a statement to CTV News Toronto, Toronto Public Health\u2019s enforcement team said, \u201cthe City of Toronto continues to use an educational approach to provide operators and businesses with information and regulations under the ROA.\u201d<\/p><p>They said they were unable to provide any additional comments specific to the closure of Caf\u00e9 Diplomatico\u2019s outdoor patio as their investigation into the business is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/destroying-my-life-owner-of-famous-toronto-restaurant-has-popular-patio-shut-down-by-city-1.5752353\">TVNews<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TVNews &#8211; The owner of one of Toronto\u2019s longest-standing restaurants, who was using his patio as a means of keeping his business alive during Ontario\u2019s most recent COVID-19 lockdown, says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-09.44.03.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}