Shock as popular restaurants close doors

A large edifice concatenation with six locations has collapsed, abruptly shutting each venues.

City Winery Brisbane Pty Ltd connected Wednesday made the determination to participate voluntary liquidation, closing each venues crossed Queensland’s superior city.

Just 5 years aft opening its archetypal venue, each restaurants person present closed including its Fortitude Valley and Edward St locations, arsenic good arsenic Ardo’s locations astatine Newstead, Milton, Hawthorne and Graceville.

City Winery CEO Dave Cush said the rising cost-of-living crisis, arsenic good sa the interaction of the Covid-19 pandemic led to the company’s demise.

Mr Cush said helium was “heartbroken” to marque the “incredibly hard decision”.

“A drastic driblet successful user spending fuelled by the existent outgo of surviving and involvement complaint environment, coupled with increases successful labour and operational costs, person each had excessively large of a compounding interaction connected our business, on with the humanities effects of Covid and lockdowns, for america to proceed to operate,” helium said.

Mr Cush said the caller opening of The Star was the “final nail”.“We simply cannot vie with an cognition of that scale,” helium said.

It is understood a fig of unit person been terminated.

Darren Vardy from Insolvency Options Pty Ltd has been appointed arsenic liquidator.

City Winery launched its archetypal venue successful 2019, opening a converted warehouse connected Wandoo St offering winemaking masterclasses.

It was Brisbane’s archetypal inner-city winery since 1860, with a 2nd determination opening connected Edward St not agelong after.

Ardo’s launched successful 2023 with its 4 venues.

Mr Cush offered his “heartfelt apologies” and thanked customers for their enactment implicit the years.

“You’re the crushed we kept going arsenic agelong arsenic we could,” helium said.

“I’m profoundly atrocious and distraught astatine the interaction this has caused for your businesses.”