Chef Matt Gillan has confirmed the closure of Heritage, his crowd-funded restaurant-with-rooms in the West Sussex village of Slaugham – and apologised for his “radio silence” in recent months. Acknowledging that suppliers and customers with outstanding vouchers had been unable to contact him, he said “I intend on making this right, however best I can.” He […]
Dynamic Glasgow restaurateur Nico Simeone has closed his fish specialist Sole Club to make way for a new pan-Asian concept, Extra_Ordinary, headed by Australian-born chef Tobias ‘Toby’ Fiegel (pictured). Sole Club, which combined experimental seafood cuisine with classic fish ‘n’ chip shop fare, opened in February last year in the Finnieston premises where Simeone founded […]
Studio Frantzén at Harrods has closed permanently after only two years, and plans to relocate to a new address in London this summer. It will be replaced by the new in-house Grill on Fifth, which opens next week. Swedish superstar chef Björn Frantzén’s London outlet has been the marquee attraction headlining the Knightsbridge department store’s […]
Gary Usher has announced the closure of Burnt Truffle in Heswall on the Wirral, his original crowdfunded venture, just short of its tenth birthday. Almost 900 individual donors pledged £100,000 in what Gary believes was Britain’s first non-investment restaurant fundraising campaign, enabling him to open Burnt Truffle in July 2015 as a follow-up to his […]
Giorgio Locatelli has closed his Marylebone flagship after 23 years, indicating that the decision was forced on him and that he has no plans to quit the London restaurant scene. The tousle-haired Italian chef and his wife Plaxy opened Locanda Locatelli 23 years ago in the Hyatt Regency – Churchill hotel, off Portman Square. The […]
Casa restaurant in Bristol, successor to the famous Casamia from Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, has closed ‘until further notice’– without any explanation. A notice posted on the restaurant’s website this week reads: “At this moment, we are closed for future bookings. If you’re looking to book a restaurant, please check out our sister restaurant, Paco Tapas. “All vouchers […]
One of the capital’s most popular fish and seafood restaurant concepts of the past decade, London Shell Co, is to abandon its distinctive floating barges, switching focus to dry land. The Grand Duchess static barge moored in Paddington Basin will run its last service tomorrow (28 September), while the Prince Regent will make its final […]
Leeds chef Liz Cottam is to close her ambitious and highly rated restaurant Home at the end of September as tough economic conditions continue to weigh heavily on the industry. New government figures show hospitality insolvencies rose by 20% in the 12 months to May, effecting 3,752 businesses. Liz founded Home in 2017 on Kirkgate […]
Prominent vegetarian restaurant Greens, of Didsbury in south Manchester, has closed down after 33 years following a 35% rent hike – while Copper & Ink in Blackheath, southeast London, is another New Year casualty of rising costs. Greens’ founder Simon Rimmer, a regular on television, announced the closure in a video posted to social media […]
One of Devon’s best-known gastropubs, The Swan in Bampton, has closed down in the face of escalating costs and the burden of debt left over from the pandemic. Landlord Paul Berry and his wife Donna, who have run The Swan for 13 years, will now concentrate on their efforts on the restaurant Spelt, also in […]
