Restaurant Closures

One of Portland’s best spots for Southern-inspired cooking is shutting its doors.   The Country Cat, the Montavilla neighborhood restaurant famed for its skillet fried chicken and nose-to-tail butchery, announced on social media today that it will close following brunch service on Aug. 4.   “We’ve seen babies born, proposals happen, weddings planned, birthdays celebrated, kids go off to college,

Despite its growing popularity, Poe’s Sandwich Joint in Fishtown has closed after only eight months in business, the owner, Richard Tamaccio Jr., announced on Sunday.    The popular sandwich spot at Frankford Ave. and Marlborough St. is closed, effective immediately. The sandwich spot opened in December of last year by Tamaccio, also known as N.A. Poe. He

  A longtime Jacksonville staple for authentic and traditional Indian cuisine is closing its doors this weekend.   India’s Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Road, will serve its last meal after 22 years in business on Sunday, the owners announced via a sign taped on the restaurant’s door.   “It is with a heavy heart we inform

Tula’s Restaurant & Jazz Club is approaching the end of its run. A bastion of Seattle’s vibrant jazz scene for more than 20 years, the Belltown club is scheduled to close at the end of September.   That’s when its liquor and business licenses expire and insurance comes up for renewal — costs that would

Classic North Beach bar and restaurant Tosca Cafe has served its last supper under chef/owner April Bloomfield. Customers at the restaurant on Saturday night were told that Tosca was closing, and that Bloomfield was in the kitchen for its final service. The bar portion of Tosca will remain open a bit longer, offerings admirers a few more

Gordon Biersch Brewery has closed its Tempe location, according to the Arizona Republic.   The brewery restaurant, which has been a staple of Mill Avenue for more than 20 years, shut its doors July 7. The restaurant’s parent company told the Republic the closure was “purely a business decision.”     Josh Kern, chief experience

The restaurant industry in Vancouver can be fickle and – once again – the city’s dining scene has suffered some casualties. Alas, this is the way of the foodie world.   Here is your update on restaurants in and around Vancouver that have recently shuttered or will do so imminently.   Closed   The Dark Manor Inn This concept first

Here’s the latest in San Francisco food news. In this edition, a longtime Castro eatery closes its doors, Sauce shutters its remaining location and North Beach gets new Thai and Italian restaurants.   Closing   Castro Eureka Restaurant and Lounge (4063 18th St.)   Multiple tipsters alerted Hoodline to the sudden closure of the Castro’s

    The Flying Biscuit Cafe permanently closed in mid-July, according to former Regional Manager Kevin Ochoa. A notice on the door says the business defaulted on its lease by vacating or abandoning the space. The company, which has locations across the southeastern United States, has also closed its downtown Dallas location, Ochoa said.  

  Scotty’s Brewhouse in Mishawaka closed its doors for good on Friday. It is the end of an era for the restaurant chain that was founded in Muncie, Indiana.   Several months prior to closing down the restaurant chain had filed for bankruptcy.   According to WPTA21, the restaurant chain had locations in Fort Wayne,

    Say what? Another dining bombshell dropped in downtown Walnut Creek as perennial favorite (especially on sunny days with those garage doors opened) Corners Tavern will close after its last day of service on July 10.   This comes on the heels of other big-name closures such as Stanford’s and Tender Greens, which were

    The company that operates Portland City Grill, Henry’s Tavern, and several other restaurants around Oregon and the West Coast has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.   The Seattle-based group, Restaurants Unlimited Inc., filed bankruptcy paperwork in Delaware on Sunday.   According to court documents, rising minimum wages, two unsuccessful expansions, and a general

  La Vista 101 has closed.    Owner Greg Gordon announced the closing on his personal Facebook page July 8, Houstonia Magazine reported. Gordon made the decision to close the restaurant due to a lack of revenue, a representative told CultureMap July 9. Gordon had further financial woes — in May, Amur Equipment Finance Inc.

Boston Market, the pioneering fast-casual rotisserie chicken chain, has closed 45 of its restaurants over the past week as part of a restructuring designed to improve the brand’s “long-term sustainability.”   In a letter to employees dated July 8 and shared with members of the media Monday, CEO Frances Allen acknowledged closing six locations on

  After nearly 50 years in business, the restaurant Tsugaru will shutter and join a small but growing list of decades-old businesses that have shut down in the small, quaint Japantown area of San Jose.   “They watched our kids grow up,” said long-time customer Terri Carroll. “They’re like moms, kind of, the waitresses.”  

  West Hartford’s The Cook and the Bear restaurant, based in Blue Black Square, announced Tuesday it will permanently close later this month.   The restaurant, a collaboration between Millwright’s chef-owner Tyler Anderson and Jamie McDonald of Bear’s Smokehouse, on social media Tuesday said it will close its doors on Sunday, July 14, after two

Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Co. has closed its Broad Ripple location.   Owners announced the permanent closure in a note on the door.   “It is with a heavy heart after 8 1/2 wonderful years Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Co. in Broad Ripple shut its doors Sunday, June 9th. We will keep our taproom location

It appears that the phony pizza-mania has bitten the dust, to borrow a line from The Clash.   Giordano’s, which set up shop downtown less than two years ago to sell its Chicago-style affront to pizzas everywhere, has closed.   The windows at its 1224 Randolph location were covered in paper and a metal security

    O’Charley’s has closed at least 20 restaurants since 2016 with the latest eight closing over the weekend, the Nashville, Tenn.-based casual-dining chain confirmed Monday.   Among the eight restaurants closed were units in Indianapolis and Tucker, Ga., near Atlanta, according to local media reports.   According to Nation’s Restaurant News’ Top 200 census,

SOUTH LAMAR — It looks like Arista Rosso, the market-slash-restaurant from the people behind coffee shop mini-chain Barley Bean, is no longer. A staffer from restaurant’s home, mixed-use development Lamar Union, confirmed the shutter, and, while the website is still active, calls to the restaurant went unanswered.   When Artista opened in August 2018, the

A Thai restaurant in Los Osos opened its doors for the last time on Friday.  Noi’s Little Thai Takeout has closed its doors. Owners of the restaurant say the closure is due to personal family matters.   Locals in Los Osos say they are sad to see the restaurant close, but are wishing the best

After 22 years in business, the Perkins restaurant and bakery on North Reserve Street in Missoula closed for good on Thursday. Owners Ken and Rikki Sanders sold the building to new owners, and longtime customers believe a new brewery, taphouse or restaurant may be in the works.   “I’m sad to see it go,” said customer

  A St. Matthews restaurant and bourbon bar announced Saturday that it is closing.   Waylon’s Feed and Firewater, 3939 Shelbyville Road, posted on its Facebook page Saturday that it closed for good.   “With great sadness, we have decided to close the business effective today at 2pm,” the Facebook post read. “We’ve loved having

  Palomino Restaurant & Bar will close its Downtown Indianapolis doors at the end of June.    The European-inspired restaurant at 49 W. Maryland St. that serves artisan pizzas, custom steaks and craft cocktails will close at the end of the month, a spokeswoman for the restaurant’s parent company confirmed to IndyStar in an email. She did

    After more than two years of ownership, Tony Kornheiser has closed down his Northwest D.C. restaurant, Chatter.   Kornheiser announced the decision on Friday during “The Tony Kornheiser Show” podcast, which he hosts from a studio inside the restaurant.   “Chatter is closing for renovations and remodeling,” Kornheiser said in the episode, titled

  James Hoban’s Irish Restaurant & Bar will pour its last Guinness next month, ending a 12-year run at the foot of Dupont Circle.   Mission Group partners Fritz Brogan and Reed Landry, who own two locations of Mexican bar Mission (Dupont and Navy Yard) and Hawthorne on U Street NW, just scooped up the

Three Phoenix-area restaurants and bars have closed their doors abruptly.    Camp Social and Hatter and Hare, both located on the popular Seventh Street corridor in Phoenix, have shuttered. Old Town Gringos, a Mexican-themed bar and restaurant in Scottsdale, also has closed.    All three businesses were operated by the restaurant group Glass Half Full,

  PHOENIX — After two years, Camp Social, the camping-themed bar and restaurant off 7th Street in Phoenix, has closed, according to a hand-written note on the front door.   “Sorry we are Closed [sic]” was written on a piece of paper in blue ink and taped to the door, as of Tuesday morning. The

Restaurant closings are enough to make grown men and women bawl like babies. Kissing your favorite slider or burrito goodbye can set you back emotionally for weeks.   Chains shut down restaurants for all sorts of reasons.   The market may be glutted. The location may not be so great. The chain itself may be

  Ara Greek Kitchen & Bar, the sprawling restaurant in the Commack South Shopping Center, has closed. A sign posted on the front door says that “We are currently going under renovations,” but the restaurant has also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Eastern District of New York.   The filing listed estimated assets between

Despite efforts to save a well-loved Phoenix diner, Jerry’s restaurant will close its doors at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. The restaurant has been open for 53 years and will be razed to make room for Jackson’s Car Wash.  Sue Labey, who lives in the Green Gables neighborhood around the restaurant and was once a general manager

    Bonna Station, the first bar to serve mixed drinks in Irvington, has closed after 9½ months in business and on the heels of another major restaurant closing, Thr3e Wise Men brew pub in Broad Ripple.   Seventy-seat Bonna Station, a venture from tech magnate-turned food and beverage entrepreneur Chris Baggott, ended its run June

It was no huge surprise that a Downtown Indianapolis restaurant serving people on Paleo, Whole 30 and keto diets stirred excitement when plans for its opening were announced in 2017, right before New Year’s Day. Alas, most people don’t stick to resolutions and the restaurant has closed.   What’s next for Nook: A Paleo Influenced

  Berry’s Restaurant has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Monday’s sheriff’s sale is canceled. However, those legal circumstances don’t have an impact on the downtown eatery now known as 1946 Berry’s Restaurant, owner Lynn Bolden said. The rebranding started about November.   “We are 1946 Berry’s Restaurant,” Bolden said Friday. “We are strong and we’ve