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What Happened to Rock Lobster After You Gotta Eat Here!? (Toronto, ON)

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3 Toronto, Ontario

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Rock Lobster has closed — confirmed via media.blogto.com, June 2016.

What the source shows: BlogTO reported in 2016 that the Ossington restaurant was closing, the Leslieville outpost had closed in 2015, and the last Queen West location was closing to be replaced by a different business. How we decide a status →

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What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?

Rock Lobster Food Co., chef Matt Dean Pettit's Toronto seafood restaurant, appeared in the April 4, 2014 episode of You Gotta Eat Here! (Food Network Canada), which Rotten Tomatoes' season-three listing describes as featuring lobster dishes. BlogTO's opening-era profile of the Ossington Avenue restaurant, in the former Watusi space, described a lobster-focused menu that included lobster poutine, a lobster roll, a raw bar, and seafood towers, and said the restaurant grew out of an earlier pop-up. The business operated more than one Toronto location. BlogTO reported in February 2016 that the original Ossington Avenue restaurant would close on March 1, 2016, that a Leslieville outpost had closed in 2015, and that Pettit planned a smaller concept called Matty's Seafood Co. In June 2016 BlogTO reported that the last remaining Rock Lobster, on Queen West, was closing and would be replaced by a restaurant and bar called The DIME.

The episode You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3

Episode 2
Aired
Title: Rock Lobster, Harper's Burger Bar, Casa Calzone · What was featured: Lobster dishes from a Toronto lobster-focused restaurant

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : John visits a restaurant specializing in lobster and a place famous for calzone. Also: Harper's Burger Bar in Kingston, Ont.

Also in Season 3 You Gotta Eat Here!

Season 3: 37 of 78 still open · 5 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. media.blogto.com https://media.blogto.com/eat_drink/2016/06/rock_lobster_is_closing_its_last_toronto_location
  2. media.blogto.com https://media.blogto.com/eat_drink/2016/02/the_original_rock_lobster_on_ossington_is_closing
  3. blogto.com https://www.blogto.com/restaurants/rock-lobster-food-co-toronto/
  4. rottentomatoes.com https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/you_gotta_eat_here/s03
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