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Meca Grill

Grill restaurant · Scarborough · Greater Toronto Area

A Scarborough grill remembered in Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter, where its staff made memorial donations together as 'the gang at Meca Grill'. That small gesture — a kitchen crew honouring a community elder — is exactly how Toronto's Macedonian restaurant tradition has always worked.

The society lists it from community records and would welcome details from the family.

Sources (1)

  1. https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter_2022.pdf

  • Macedonian Mermaid Motel Мотел „Македонска сирена“

    Motel · Wasaga Beach

    Very likely the only motel in Canada with 'Macedonian' on the sign. Canadian Macedonian Place's newsletter records that Kosta Stanwyck, the cheese-maker and cat...

    Macedonian connection: Purchased in 2019 by Kosta Stanwyck, co-founder of Triple "A" Cheese and a builder of St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral — at the age of 89.

    Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13225-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-r1-FL-cropped.pdf

  • PowerBev Inc.

    Beverage distribution · Toronto

    The beverage venture of Tom Bitove, a third-generation member of the family that built Toronto's great Macedonian catering empire. PowerBev has sponsored lunche...

    Macedonian connection: Tom Bitove's beverage company — third generation of the Bitove family, grandsons of immigrants from Gabresh, Aegean Macedonia; a recurring Macedonian Open sponsor.

    Sources: https://canadianmacedonianplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/13886-CMP-Zdravets-Newsletter-SinglePage-FINAL.pdf

  • Summer Fresh Salads Inc.

    Prepared-foods manufacturer · Woodbridge (Vaughan)

    In 1991 Susan Niczowski, a University of Toronto-trained chemist then working as a microbiologist at Shopsy's, began making hummus from Macedonian family recipe...

    Address: 334 Rowntree Dairy Road, Woodbridge, ON L4L 8H2

    Telephone: 905-856-8816 / 1-877-472-5237

    Website: https://summerfresh.com

    Macedonian connection: Founded by Susan Niczowski, born in North York to Macedonian parents of the Detsa Begalci generation; Macedonia 2025 board member, honoured by Canadian Macedonian Place at its 2024 ReImagine Gala.

    Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Niczowski

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