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Montecito Restaurant

Closed 2020s

Restaurant · Toronto (Entertainment District) · Greater Toronto Area

The Bitove brothers' Entertainment District restaurant, opened with filmmaker Ivan Reitman, carried the family's hospitality name into Toronto's premiere-night circuit. The community remembers it for something homier: during the pandemic, Tom and Jordan sent Mother's Day lunch from Montecito's kitchen to the seniors of Canadian Macedonian Place.

Details

Founded
2014
People
Tom and Jordan Bitove (with director Ivan Reitman)

Sources (1)

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

  • Mobilicity

    Wireless carrier · Toronto

    Closed sold to Rogers, 2015

    Bitove's run at the wireless oligopoly: Mobilicity launched in 2010 as a discount carrier in Canada's biggest cities and was sold to Rogers Communications in 20...

    Macedonian connection: The discount wireless carrier founded by John Bitove Jr.

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

  • Nortel Networks — the Zafirovski years

    Telecommunications (affiliated leadership) · Toronto

    Closed Nortel entered creditor protection 2009

    Nortel was never a Macedonian company, but from 2005 to 2009 the century-old giant was steered by one: Mike Zafirovski, born in Skopje in 1953, formerly of Gene...

    Macedonian connection: Canada's telecom giant was led through its final chapter by Skopje-born Mike Zafirovski — an affiliation entry, not a Macedonian-owned business.

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

  • Patrician Grill

    Diner · Toronto (King St E)

    Closed 9 May 2026

    For seventy years the Papas family kept the grill on at 219 King East — Louie, newly arrived from Greek Macedonia in 1953, then his son Terry, serving all-day b...

    Address: 219 King Street East, Toronto

    Macedonian connection: Founded by Louie Papas, a Greek-Macedonian immigrant, and run by his family for seventy years.

    Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/patrician-grill-closing-after-70-years-9.7167062

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