The South Bayview Bulldog

Pimenton, the Spanish and Mediterranean food restaurant, cooking school and catering service at 681 Mt. Pleasant Rd. has closed at that location. A notice in the window says the company continues to offer “catering services, cooking classes, supper club and event planing.” The phone number is that of the Pimenton kitchen and office at 19 Curity Ave in East York. Pimenton will be missed from Mt. Pleasant although it was no doubt a challenge to make money there. The restaurant’s wonderful Paella dishes offered on the street during the BIA’s Restaurantacular were always delicious.

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The Baskin Robbins store has re-opened at the corner of Bayview and Millwood. The new franchisee is an experienced ice cream man Raj. He has shops already in Mississauga and Stouffville. He says he doesn’t mind driving between them. Hard-working man. Drop in and say hi.

The United States government has slapped a $105 million fine on Fiat-Chrysler for not following through on a recall of fire-prone Jeeps and RAM pickup trucks. The company must buy back 500,000 of the vehicles and the move has left Canada “blindsided”. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said she still doesn’t know the impact on Canada of the recall of Fiat-Chrysler vehicles. “I simply was left blindsided on this issue,” Raitt told CBC News.  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined the Italian-American automaker a record $105 million for poorly executing 23 vehicle safety recalls covering more than 11 million defective vehicles over several years. As part of that deal, Fiat-Chrysler has been ordered to fix or buy back 500,000 Ram pickup trucks and 1.5 million Jeeps that might be vulnerable in rear-end collisions.