How one of Toronto's oldest Italian restaurants has survived for generations Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. A Toronto Italian restaurant that's survived for two generations has managed to stay around by both maintaining their connection to the past and stepping into the future. "The papier mache nose hanging outside, which was my dad poking fun of his own nose," Margio Rana of Gio Rana's tells blogTO, "the name Gio Rana's Really Really Nice Restaurant, show humour has always been extremely important to the original vision. With our Instagram, we still try to do the same."