Chef Grant Soto outs himself as…an aspiring screenwriter

Chef Grant Soto, the resident Twitter troll of the Toronto restaurant scene, has come out to the Star’s Amy Pataki. His real name: Taylor Clarke. And his real profession: screenwriter. The Soto persona, it turns out, is the basis for a one-hour TV series called, naturally enough, Chef Grant Soto, which Pataki reports has drawn interest from HBO Canada and Showcase. Clarke himself is not a cook, but he did at one point wait tables at Marben. So now you know. Read the whole story [Toronto Star] »

UPDATE: Turns out Pataki’s report of interest from networks was a little premature; a correction has been appended to the Star’s story.

(Images: Soto, Twitter; screenplay, marioanima)