[AlbertC]

Feels a bit too hoity toity for me but they do appear to be taking ongoing reservations and operating:

https://tableagent.com/toronto/vintage-conservatory-lombard/

Fred Loimer Winemaker Dinner at The Vintage Conservatory, King Street

Carrying on his family’s winemaking tradition, Fred Loimer studied oenology at Austria’s Klosterneuburg University before gaining valuable work experience in Nahe, Germany, and the Napa Valle…

www.goodfoodrevolution.com

 

[DSC]

This is for the wine club? It looks fairly unadorned for the front area. Which I guess, is the way it's always looked.

Looks like the smoking area outside a rather low-end old folks home!

 

[GenerationLee]

That, or a shuttered restaurant with patio space due to the pandemic. That's all I see when I look at the last attachment.

 

[neuhaus]

Yup, I walked by the other day and it still looks like an abandoned retail space.
It’s sad that almost nine years since this was built no real restaurant has ever opened here yet.

 

[Parkdalian]

That reno job is unforgivably dire.

 

[rdaner]

I wonder what sort of restrictions are placed on this space? Nine years is a bit long.

 

[Natika33]

I wonder what sort of restrictions are placed on this space? Nine years is a bit long.

https://www.vintageconservatory.com/
It appears to be a private club for members only.

 

[officedweller]

So the gray panels (are they wraps?) are actually worse that having a Shoppers Drug Mart's wraps (?).

 

[neuhaus]

That’s unfortunate and disappointing. The plaza most likely won’t be occupied and animated by a patio (which it was designed for) and the windows covered from the public — the building will continue to look unfinished, dead and uninviting at the street level.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Sigh...

 

[DarwinP]

Seems this is done?

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it’s so unfortunate considering the location and building. It had so much potential to offer a beautiful restaurant/bar patio to animate the street.

 

[interchange42]

The problem apparently is the awkward internal layout that restauranteurs have found unworkable. That, though, provides no excuse to the wine club for the terrible ground level treatment.

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