restaurantRestaurant Takeover · Season 1, Episode 11 · Aired November 8, 2012
Naan & Kabob
Toronto
This one survived. It remains in business.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 11 · November 8, 2012 · Afghan restaurant
P2 SPINE-FIX: city backfilled from status
What happened after
Afghan restaurant at 691 Yonge Street (Church-Wellesley Village), Toronto. Yelp listing explicitly marked "Updated July 2026" with 188 reviews; a 2013 SBWire piece separately confirms the restaurant was still thriving one year after its Restaurant Takeover makeover.
What happened on the show
For one set of siblings, Naan and Kabob was the thing holding the family together, which meant its slump threatened more than the balance sheet. The Afghan restaurant, in the Church-Wellesley Village of Toronto, had become the glue between its owners, and as business lagged the strain risked pulling the family apart along with the restaurant. Restaurant Takeover framed the rescue in exactly those doubled terms, saving a struggling room and the relationships bound up in it. The Food Network Canada reboot of Restaurant Makeover sent chef Massimo Capra and designer Alison Milne in on its six-day clock to revive an ailing Afghan kitchen at 691 Yonge Street. The stakes the episode drew were personal: get the food and the room working again, and you steady a family; let it keep sliding, and you lose both at once. It is the show's favorite kind of double bind.
After the cameras left
Naan and Kabob is the strongest survivor in this batch. As of our latest verification pass the Afghan restaurant is still operating at 691 Yonge Street in the Church-Wellesley Village, and its Yelp listing carries an update stamp from within the current month alongside 188 reviews. A separate 2013 report confirmed it was already thriving a year after the makeover, so the recovery held early and has lasted. That is a rare clean arc for Restaurant Takeover: struggling on camera, steadied by the intervention, and still serving well over a decade later. When we say a room is confirmed open, this is the caliber of evidence we mean.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.