“After 18 years of business it is time for change,” chef Anthony Rose wrote in an Instagram post, announcing that restaurants Rose and Sons and Big Crow are closing.
The chef wrote a long and heartfelt caption explaining that this isn’t goodbye forever, but that what comes next will be something different.
In the explanation, Rose compares the restaurant business to love, closing up a spot to heartbreak, and running an eatery to art.
“Don’t you ever get tired of doing the same thing everyday day in and day out. Don’t you get tired as an artist of painting the same nude or landscape or portrait constantly?” he wrote, before answering his own question with: “Well we certainly do.”
And in wanting to experience something new and different for themselves, those behind the scenes are gearing up to offer something different for guests.
“There is a story in here, and it is a deep story of the dining scene in Toronto. Restaurants are closing left right and centre. We are closing but we are reinventing ourselves to something bigger and better and more interesting to us and for you,” Rose wrote.
He shared that the last service at Big Crow will be October 6, and that starting on October 3, Rose and Sons will be recreating classics.
“Ours and your favourite dishes,” he wrote.
So make sure you swing over to 176 Dupont Street in the next few days to get your fill.
