What Happened to Konrad Lounge After Restaurant Makeover? (Toronto, ON)

Restaurant Makeover (HGTV Canada / Food Network Canada) featured Di and Gabby's, a business in Etobicoke, Toronto, in an episode that aired on 2008-06-02. The Rotten Tomatoes episode description says only that the show sought a way to make the business viable. Wikipedia's Restaurant Makeover table credits chef Massimo Capra and designer Tracy Kundell with the episode, lists the name after the makeover as Konrad Lounge, and gives Di and Gabby's as the original name. The episode is the 23rd of 26 in the season 4 listing on Rotten Tomatoes. No source that was found describes the owners, the specific problems, what was changed in the menu, decor or staff, or how the relaunch went, so none of that is described here.

For the years since, the sources are a map listing and a lead. A Google Places listing for Konrad Lounge at 2902 Lake Shore Blvd W in Etobicoke, retrieved on 2026-10-19, was marked permanently closed. The listing's name matches the post-makeover name in Wikipedia's table and the neighborhood matches the table's location. Wikipedia's table marks the business as still open, but that table gives no date or source, and the fresher Places listing points the other way. A web search for the lounge together with the earlier name and the street returned only hotel and real-estate pages along Lake Shore Boulevard West, none of which mentioned the business.

No news article or owner announcement about Konrad Lounge was found, so no date or reason can be given for the listing's status. The Places status reflects the listing as retrieved on 2026-10-19, not the date of any closure. The address shown with this entry is the one on that Places listing; the pages read do not give the address of the Di and Gabby's space seen in the episode, so the match rests on the name and the neighborhood.