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 […]
Iconic Southall restaurant Brilliant is to close next month after 50 years, to be replaced by the new Brilliant Gastro in the town’s nearby Green Quarter. The restaurant was founded by Gulu Anand in 1975, becoming a stalwart of the west London suburb’s famous south Asian dining scene, with guests including King Charles. The founder’s […]
Peripatetic wild food restaurant Native has closed after less than a year at its latest location, the Netherwood Estate on the Worcestershire-Herefordshire border, following a failure in its extraction system that “broke the camel’s back“. Chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes (pictured) and his business partner Imogen Davis launched the zero-waste, foraging-based project in 2012, winning widespread acclaim […]
Italian-inspired supper club-turned-restaurant Forza Win is to close next week, with founders Bash Redford and Michael Lavery planning to expand their successful spinoff Forza Wine. The pair started out on a casual basis at the Truman Brewery in Whitechapel in 2012, before switching to a permanent base in a Peckham warehouse. That closed during the […]
Highly rated Norwich chef Roger Hickman is to close his self-named restaurant after 15 years, blaming economic conditions and changes in the industry for his decision. It will serve its last meals on March 30. Roger worked at Adlards restaurant on the same site before taking it over himself in 2010. Since then, it has […]
Two heavyweight French restaurants are pulling out of London, with the closure of La Dame de Pic in the City and Café Lapérouse in the Old War Office (OWO) building in Whitehall. La Dame de Pic, the UK outpost of highly decorated French chef Anne-Sophie Pic (pictured), will serve its final meals next Saturday, 15 […]
Café Britaly, the hybrid British caff/Italian comfort food restaurant that opened to critical acclaim in Packham last year, has closed down after just eight months. Co-owners Richard Crampton-Platt (left in picture) and Alex Purdie (right) say they were unable to build enough momentum to generate sustainable revenue in the face of “challenging trading conditions, which were […]
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 […]
