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 […]
One of London’s most ambitious and accomplished new restaurants of recent years, Oxeye in Nine Elms, has closed down, founder Sven-Hanson Britt announced in a long and heartfelt Instagram post this week. Several years in the planning, Oxeye opened in late 2021 and was awarded the highest score of 5 for its cooking in this […]
The Glasshouse in Kew, one of London’s highest-rating neighbourhood restaurants of the past two decades, is to close down next month. There was no immediate explanation of the move, which was announced with a terse message on the restaurant’s website. It read: “It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of The Glasshouse […]
Two prominent independent restaurants have announced their permanent closure – Le Cochon Aveugle in York and House of Feasts in Peterborough – highlighting the struggles faced by the industry since lockdown was lifted. Le Cochon Aveugle (pictured above) was opened in 2014 and serves only a ‘blind’ tasting menu to just five tables. The current Harden’s 2022 […]
Osteria San Lorenzo, the celebrity haunt in Knightsbridge launched as the Swinging Sixties took off in 1963, will not reopen, having remained closed since last year’s Covid lockdown. Named after the early Christian martyr roasted to death on a grid-iron, who coolly asked his torturers to turn him over because he was “done on that […]
Two longstanding Oxford eating institutions have experienced contrasting fortunes following recent changes in trading conditions: Gee’s (pictured), which has occupied a Grade II listed Victorian greenhouse in wealthy North Oxford for 40 years, is doubling its capacity following a million-pound makeover, while the Nosebag in the city centre has closed down permanently after 51 years. […]
