Is Italian Garden Still Open? Restaurant Takeover Update (Brampton, ON)

Italian Garden, at 10069 Hurontario Street in Brampton, was the second episode of Restaurant Takeover (Food Network Canada) season two, which aired on 2013-09-04. According to TVmaze's episode page, owner Joe had opened the restaurant about 15 years earlier and was confident that his hot table of traditional Italian dishes was top notch. The space told a different story: the synopsis describes dated Italian-themed decor, worn floor tiles, and bland pastas and sandwiches, giving the room the feel of a 1990s cafeteria more than the tavola calda (Italian hot-food counter) style it was aiming for. The show sent in chef Adam Hynam-Smith and designer Paula Velez to convince Joe, whom the synopsis nicknames Status-Quo Joe, that his resistance to change was costing him money.

The pages read for this entry do not describe what the makeover actually changed. None of them gives a new menu, new decor, a new name or a relaunch date. TV Foodies, a fan directory of TV-featured restaurants, lists Italian Garden Restaurant in Brampton as featured on the show and gives the Hurontario Street address and a phone number; that listing was published and last modified on 2014-07-21 and repeats the episode synopsis without adding detail about the result.

Since the episode, the record is thin. A Google Maps listing for Italian Garden Restaurant at 10069 Hurontario Street, checked on 2026-10-19, shows the business as operational, at an address that matches the one on the TV Foodies page. The website address attached to that listing redirected, when checked on 2026-10-19, to the home page of the SkipTheDishes delivery service rather than to a restaurant site, so it is not used here. No news story, owner statement or dated customer review turned up in the checks made for this entry, which means the Google Maps listing is the only current source behind it.

A Google Maps listing checked 2026-10-19 shows Italian Garden Restaurant at 10069 Hurontario Street in Brampton as operating, with nearly 300 Google reviews, and the newest reviews shown on the listing are dated January 25, March 12, June 18 and July 2, 2026. No source read reports a sale, a name change or a closure.