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What Happened to Hoito Resta… After You Gotta Eat Here!? (Thunder Bay, ON)

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As of October 2026, Hoito Restaurant has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 17, 2025.

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What the source shows: Northern Ontario Travel (page modified 2025-04-17) said the Hoito's iconic original location was closed due to fire and listed only a pancake stand at the Thunder Bay Country Market, and a second Northern Ontario Travel page (modified 2025-01-30) referred to the restaurant's closure at the start of the pandemic and a fire that destroyed the Finnish Labour Temple.

  • Season / episode Season 1, Episode 3
  • Original air date
  • Address 314 Bay St, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 1A7

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What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?

The Hoito in Thunder Bay, Ontario, was the third stop in the third episode of You Gotta Eat Here!, which aired on Flavour Network on 2012-08-25. According to TheTVDB's episode entry, host John Catucci ate thin Finnish-style pancakes there. The restaurant occupied the ground floor of the Finnish Labour Temple at 314 Bay Street, and Wikipedia's article on The Hoito says it was founded in 1918. Wikipedia also says the restaurant was closed from March 2020 because of the pandemic and that a fire damaged the building on 2021-12-22 during renovations. Northern Ontario Travel reported on 2025-04-17 that the original location was closed because of the fire and that Hoito pancakes were being sold at the Thunder Bay Country Market, 435 Northern Avenue. A Google Maps listing checked on 2026-10-19 lists a Hoito restaurant at 251 Red River Road as operational; none of the pages read describes a reopened dining room.

Northern Ontario Travel's Hoito page, last modified 2025-04-17, said the iconic original location was closed due to fire and listed the pancakes at the Thunder Bay Country Market, 435 Northern Avenue, on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings. A Northern Ontario Travel roundup modified 2025-01-30 referred to the restaurant's closure at the beginning of the pandemic and a later fire that destroyed the Finnish Labour Temple. An undated TBnewswatch article, written nearly a year after the 2021-12-22 fire, reported that the Finlandia Co-operative planned to lease space in a new building at Bay and Algoma streets to reopen the Hoito.

Featured on You Gotta Eat Here!

Season / episode
Season 1, Episode 3
Original air date
Episode title
Salvatore's Pizzaiolo Trattoria, The Harbour Diner, Hoito Restaurant
What was featured
Thin Finnish-style pancakes served in the Finnish Labour Temple
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Hoito Restaurant

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Address
314 Bay St, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 1A7
Venue type
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Sources

  • northernontario.travel — https://northernontario.travel/thunder-bay/finn-pancakes-thunder-bay?s=1864
  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoito
  • TheTVDB — https://www.thetvdb.com/series/you-gotta-eat-here/allseasons/official
  • Google — https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Hoito+restaurant+251+Red+River+Rd+Thunder+Bay+ON+P7B+1A7
  • northernontario.travel — https://northernontario.travel/thunder-bay/discover-what-s-new-in-thunder-bay

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