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apparently Pickel Barrel at VaughanMills is rebranding to Olive Garden as they are both under Recipe Limited brand

I can't find anything concrete about that Pickle Barrel closing, other than an offhand Reddit comment. I'm a little skeptical about the timing, too. They would have to renovate the entire restaurant inside and out if they wanted to transform it into an Olive Garden for the summer of this year, no? Those things take time, but the location seems to still be open. It would have had to shut down a while ago with how long these things can take.

There's been another empty space that's been left since Designer Depot downsized though, on the opposite side of the mall. Maybe it could be going there too? That space has been empty for quite some time, but it does seem pretty big. There's no mall access but they installed new doors going into the space.

If that's true though I'm sad. Pickle Barrel is a dying chain, and a guilty pleasure of mine. Hopefully no one there is losing their jobs.

 

[torontowest91]

any permits yet?

 

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any permits yet?

Only permit I can see online in Vaughan Mills is for a Bready cafe, but I have no idea where that would be in the mall.

EDIT: Actually the map is extremely unusable, so there's more than one permit open... I can't find anything about Olive Garden thus far, but I did see something about Honestly Good Chicken Fingers too. I don't know where they're getting this space.

 

[narduch]

I can't find anything concrete about that Pickle Barrel closing, other than an offhand Reddit comment. I'm a little skeptical about the timing, too. They would have to renovate the entire restaurant inside and out if they wanted to transform it into an Olive Garden for the summer of this year, no? Those things take time, but the location seems to still be open. It would have had to shut down a while ago with how long these things can take.

There's been another empty space that's been left since Designer Depot downsized though, on the opposite side of the mall. Maybe it could be going there too? That space has been empty for quite some time, but it does seem pretty big. There's no mall access but they installed new doors going into the space.

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If that's true though I'm sad. Pickle Barrel is a dying chain, and a guilty pleasure of mine. Hopefully no one there is losing their jobs.

I think the new Playdium is going in the Designer Depot spot

 

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I think the new Playdium is going in the Designer Depot spot

Oh man, I totally forgot about that. That makes a lot of sense as well as that won't need mall access. Pickle Barrel may indeed be toast then. Still one of my favorite malls though....

 

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Went to Vaughan Mills today. Bready and Honestly Good are replacing the closed Aroma Espresso Bar and Blaze Pizza, respectively. Didn't see any construction going on around the empty Designer Depot space. Pickle Barrel was still bustling with boomers as always.