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Is Pizzeria Via Mercanti Still Open? You Gotta Eat Here! Update

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 4 Toronto, Ontario

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Pizzeria Via Mercanti is listed open on pizzeriaviamercanti.ca, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website, whose server record shows a modification date of 2026-10-20, offers dine-in, takeout and online ordering for its Kensington Market pizzeria. How we decide a status →

What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?

In the You Gotta Eat Here! episode that aired on 2015-01-30, the season 4 premiere, TVmaze's episode summary says the show featured authentic Neapolitan pizza and pasta at Pizzeria Via Mercanti in Toronto. Toronto Life reported on 2012-02-09 that the restaurant at 188 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market was a new opening from two Sicilian expats, Romolo Salvati and Massimo Di Lascio, who had left Queen Margherita about two months earlier and set up in the recently shuttered Back Alley Woodfire BBQ and Grill space. The magazine described a laid-back Neapolitan-style pizza operation with two brick ovens that bake each pie in 60 to 85 seconds. The restaurant's current website, whose server record shows a modification date of 2026-10-20, describes wood-fire Neapolitan pizza in Kensington Market and offers dine-in, takeout and online ordering.

The episode You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 4

Episode 1
Aired
Title: Pizzeria via Mercanti, Moonshine BBQ, Cheshire Cat · What was featured: Authentic Neapolitan pizza and pasta, per TVmaze's episode summary

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : Authentic Napoletana pizza and pasta is featured at Pizzeria Via Mercanti in Toronto; and host John Catucci joins in on the rib rubbing at Moonshine BBQ in Lynnwood, Wash. Also: The host visits the Cheshire Cat Pub in Ottawa.

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. pizzeriaviamercanti.ca http://www.pizzeriaviamercanti.ca/
  2. torontolife.com https://torontolife.com/food/introducing-via-mercanti/
  3. api.tvmaze.com https://api.tvmaze.com/shows/15676/episodes
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Record ygeh-213 · checked by Cal Marchetti.