What Happened to The Richmond Rogue After Restaurant Makeover?

The Richmond Rogue was a Toronto pub featured in the Restaurant Makeover episode aired on 2007-12-10. The series paired a chef with a designer to overhaul a restaurant on a limited budget, with the owner's funds matched by the production. According to Rotten Tomatoes' synopsis, the owner, Todd, had bought the pub five years earlier, had already lost a business partner and had seen a smoking ban take away his patio, and the synopsis frames the pub's troubles as needing an exorcism. TV Guide's season listing describes the venue as a haunted pub that designer Meredith Heron turned into a restaurant.

Her work, as TV Guide describes it, included painting the brick, while the build crew's Igor dealt with problems with the floor and the table bases. Chefs Lynn Crawford and Susur Lee reworked the food and added a brunch menu. The sources read give no budget figure and no account of the relaunch.

Wikipedia's list of Restaurant Makeover restaurants gives the location as Toronto, lists Crawford as the chef and Heron as the designer, and marks the restaurant as not still open, with no date or source for that mark. A Google Places listing checked on 2026-10-19 lists The Richmond Rogue Kitchen + Bar at 284 Richmond Street East, Toronto, M5A 1P4, as permanently closed. The Kitchen + Bar wording suggests a pub that moved toward a restaurant format, though no source read says when that name was adopted.

A web search for the pub together with its closure returned no news article, review or listing page naming the Richmond Rogue, so the Places record is the only dated item found. The sources read do not say when the business stopped operating, whether it changed hands first, or what occupies the address now.