Matthew James Matheson was born on February 7,1982 and is a Canadian chef, restaurateur, actor and internet personality.
27 Facts About Matty Matheson
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Matty Matheson portrays the handyman Neil Fak on the FX series The Bear.
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Matty Matheson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick; his parents are engineer Stephen and waitress Joan Matty Matheson.
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The family lived in Nova Scotia until Matty Matheson turned 11, when they moved to Fort Erie, Ontario.
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Matty Matheson's grandfather was a restaurateur and former RCMP officer from Prince Edward Island, the family having roots in PEI dating back to the 1700s.
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Matty Matheson's grandfather owned and operated The Blue Goose restaurant in DeSable, where Matty would spend his summers.
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Matty Matheson moved to Toronto in 2000 and attended Humber College's cooking program.
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However, Matty Matheson found he had a talent for butchering meat, and he continued his culinary career by handing out resumes to random restaurants until he found employment.
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Matty Matheson began working at Le Select Bistro in Toronto in 2003 under chef Rang Nguyen, who taught him French culinary techniques.
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In 2006, Matty Matheson was hired at the restaurant La Palette.
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Matty Matheson was hired to host Viceland's It's Suppertime and Dead Set on Life.
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In June 2022, Matty Matheson joined the cast and crew of FX's The Bear.
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Matty Matheson portrays handyman Neil Fak, and he serves as a producer and culinary consultant on the show.
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Matty Matheson partnered with Shlomo Buchler in 2015 to create a pizza restaurant called Maker Pizza, which has opened and expanded into numerous locations within the Greater Toronto Area.
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In October 2020, Matheson opened another pop-up restaurant in Toronto, a continuation of Matty's Patty's, which was originally located in Hawaii with a short stint in Shibuya, Japan.
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Matty Matheson's Patty's opened a permanent location in the Trinity-Bellwoods neighbourhood in Toronto in December 2020.
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In January 2022, Matty Matheson teamed up with his mentor and friend Rang Nguyen and opened Ca Phe Rang, a Vietnamese restaurant serving pho and banh mi.
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Matty Matheson had been working on opening the restaurant since 2016.
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In November 2022, Matty Matheson opened Rizzo's House of Parm, a restaurant serving old-school Italian-American cuisine, at Crystal Beach in Fort Erie, Ontario.
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Matty Matheson has incorporated all of his restaurants into his company, Our House Hospitality Company.
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Matty Matheson recorded a series of YouTube videos to coincide with the release of this book.
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In March 2020, Matty Matheson and artist Alex 2Tone, co-founder of streetwear brand Born X Raised, started a podcast titled Powerful Truth Angels, with producer Jason Nelken.
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In 2020, Matty Matheson teamed up with Toronto chef Keenan McVey and opened Blue Goose Farm, a small farm in Fort Erie, Ontario; the farm, named after a restaurant owned by Matty Matheson's grandfather, helps to supply vegetables to some of his restaurants and other restaurants in Toronto.
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In 2022, Matty Matheson started the "hyper-local entrepreneur" workwear clothing line, Rosa Rugosa, with production based in the West Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale.
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In 2025 Matty Matheson announced the formation of Pig Pen, a hardcore punk band featuring Wade MacNeil and Daniel Romano.
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Matty Matheson quit using drugs and alcohol at the end of 2013.
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Seven months after becoming sober, Matty Matheson shot his first episode of Keep It Canada.