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Is Monkey Bar and… Still Open? Restaurant Makeover Update (Toronto, ON)

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As of October 2026, Monkey Bar and Grill is listed open on origin-www.audible.in, reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

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themonkeybar.ca ·

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What the source shows: A podcast episode listing dated 2024-11-26 describes Monkey Bar as an operating bistro-style restaurant at 3353 Yonge St, and the restaurant's own website (checked 2026-10-19) lists hours and a phone number, with Google Places showing it operational on the same date.

  • Season / episode Season 2, Episode 11
  • Original air date
  • Address 3353 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4N 2M6

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What happened after Restaurant Makeover?

Monkey Bar and Grill, at 3353 Yonge Street in Toronto, was the subject of the eleventh episode of the second season of Restaurant Makeover, a series on Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada, which aired on January 30, 2006. Rotten Tomatoes' season listing describes cleanliness problems, including dirty fixtures, a cluttered menu and a grill that had not been cleaned in years. Nothing read describes what the chef and designer changed in the menu, decor, staffing or name, or how the relaunch went. Wikipedia's list of renovated restaurants adds a note that the restaurant was renovated again in 2015; no page read corroborates that.

The series paired a chef with a designer to rebuild a restaurant on a small budget and a tight schedule, and TVmaze's listing for the show says the owners put up half of the funding, watched the demolition and returned to see the finished room.

The most recent dated description comes from a podcast. A Toronto Eats episode from the Eats + Beats + Bar Seats feed, released on November 26, 2024 under the title Monkey Bar - Booked 5 Days a Week, described Monkey Bar as a bistro-style restaurant blending Canadian, Italian, French and Asian cooking, at 3353 Yonge Street in the Yonge and Lawrence area and established more than 25 years earlier. The restaurant's own website, loaded on October 19, 2026, lists the telephone number (416) 486-2288, hours of Tuesday to Saturday from 5 p.m., private-party bookings seven days a week, and a line saying the restaurant is in its twenty-ninth year. The page carries no date. Google Places showed the business as operational on that date. Rotten Tomatoes names six chefs among the season's hosts, Brad Long, Rene Chauvin, Lynn Crawford, Massimo Capra, Corbin Tomaszeski and David Adjey, but nothing read says which of them or which designer worked on the Monkey Bar episode, and the listing places it between the High Point Restaurant episode of January 23, 2006 and The Empress Restaurant episode of February 6, 2006.

Featured on Restaurant Makeover

Season / episode
Season 2, Episode 11
Original air date
Episode title
Monkey Bar and Grill
What was featured
Makeover of a Toronto bar and grill with cleanliness and menu problems
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Monkey Bar and Grill

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Visit info

Address
3353 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4N 2M6
Venue type
restaurant
Official website
themonkeybar.ca

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