After six years of struggling to figure out what its patrons want, C5, the Royal Ontario Museum’s swanky restaurant perched atop the futuristic Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, will be closing its doors at the end of the month. The restaurant opened to much fanfare in 2007, with an expensive, high end menu created by chef Ted Corrado. However, despite critical praise (it was named one of Toronto’s top restaurants by Toronto Life in 2009), the hefty prices kept potential diners away, and in 2011 they decided to change it up completely. They brought in celebrity chef Corbin Tomaszeski of Restaurant Makeover fame, and went for a cheaper, more accessible menu. Now, The Compass Group, the foodservice company in charge of running the operation, has cancelled their contract with the ROM, and with no one to replace them at this point, C5 is closing on April 30th. However, the ROM is hoping to have another company come in and take over the contract, so C5 may yet live again by the end of the year.
I actually had no idea there was a restaurant up there, which might be half the problem. Have any readers eaten there? What direction do you think the new C5 should take?
[via Toronto Life]
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Megan Patterson is the Science and Technology Editor at Paper Droids and currently a Toronto Standard intern. She also tweets more than is healthy or wise.
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