The iconic Cambie Street eatery Tomato is likely to return somewhere near its old location at West 17th Avenue, according to owner Christian Gaudreault.
Gaudreault was a vocal critic of the way Canada Line developers used the cut-and-cover method of building the tunnel underneath Cambie Street.
He moved his restaurant to the corner of West Broadway and Bayswater Street in 2007, but the building that he moved to is now slated for demolition.
Gaudreault received a payout from Mark James, who owned both the building and operated the clothing store Mark James Clothing, which is scheduled to close by the end of September.
Tomato officially closed on Bayswater on May 30.
“When you close a place, you have to reassess and charge your batteries, come fresh,” Gaudreault told Business in Vancouver July 8. “There are so many new restaurants in town now. We are looking for a new place now, not actively, but it looks like we want to go back to where we were [on Cambie Street].”
Gaudreault spent 20 years working for Umberto Menghi at restaurants such as Il Giardino and Settebello before buying a stake in Tomato in 1995.
He co-owned the venture with founder Diane Clement and her daughter Jennifer Clement until 2001, when he bought the family out.
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