It's a few hours before dinner service on a late summer afternoon. Antonio Cayonne and Andrew Jameson are seated in their restaurant's dining room, laptops open and chairs stacked around them. We begin talking about their early years, long before Say Mercy! even broached the horizon. The business partners—who speak to each other with evident admiration and clear respect—met in Toronto over a decade ago while working in the hospitality industry. It would only be a few years later when they both found themselves in Vancouver for different reasons: Jameson had family in the city and Cayonne, a talented actor and performer, wanted to further explore the West Coast film industry. But fate would have it that the duo soon meet a skilled chef named Sean Reeve.

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