What Happened to Oasis Restaurant After Restaurant Makeover? (Toronto, ON)

Oasis Restaurant was the twelfth episode of Restaurant Makeover's first season, aired 2005-06-21 according to the Google Play, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb listings. Google Play's description says a bohemian restaurant with hidden strengths needed a facelift and a menu update, on a budget far below what the owners had asked for; the description gives neither figure. Rotten Tomatoes says only that the restaurant needed a makeover. RealityTVWorld's show page credits chef David Adjey and designer Meredith Heron.

The Google Play detail about a budget below the request is the only money detail we found for this episode. RealityTVWorld and Wikipedia's article on the series describe the usual format as a very limited budget and time, with owners' funds matched up to $20,000 (later $15,000). We found no description of what the menu update contained, what the facelift changed in the room, whether staff changed, or how the relaunch went.

The episode description on Food Network Canada's former show page, as preserved by the Internet Archive in 2010, adds detail: the walls carried original murals by a well-known artist, the chairs came from an office-furniture sell-off, a terrazzo inlay floor lay hidden under a threadbare carpet, owner Francis had only managed stopgap fixes, and the tapas menu had become dated.

No listing gives a street or a city. This entry identifies the restaurant as Oasis at 294 College Street in Toronto, a match by name, city and character rather than by a source that names the show. NOW Magazine's 2006-08-24 listing for the Savannah Room at 294 College Street says the spot had been known as Oasis until that spring and kept much of its humble, eclectic charm under the new owners, whose kitchen served a soul-food take on tapas. City of Toronto business-licence records show the Savannah Room licensed at that address from 2006-06-02. Yelp still carries a page for Oasis Restaurant at 294 College Street, with no reviews. No source read gives the exact date Oasis stopped trading.