For the folks at Ottawa's Riviera restaurant, it was a reservation request unlike any other. "It was a great little legend for us, but I don't think any of us knew that he was still alive," said Alex McMahon, Riviera's wine director, earlier this week. "He [took] us through where everything was when it was the bank, and how he did it, how he pulled off the robbery," McMahon said. They ended up sharing a glass of bubbly inside the former bank vault that now serves as Riviera's wine cellar. An Instagram post made by Ottawa restaurant Riviera after former bank robber Boyne Johnston paid a visit on Aug. 10, 2018.

Source: CBC News August 17, 2018 11:30 UTC