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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Popular coffee shop suddenly closes permanently after four years as heartbroken fans say ‘you'll be missed'
It comes after a famous London greasy spoon announced its closure SHUT UP SHOP Popular coffee shop suddenly closes permanently after four years as heartbroken fans say 'you'll be missed' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A POPULAR coffee shop has unexpectedly shut its doors for the last time leaving fans heartbroken. An artisan coffee bar in South Queensferry, Scotland has announced its closure after only four years. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Brew Culture in South Queensferry suddenly closed after 4 years Credit: Instagram/@ Brew Culture in the town's high street decided not to renew their lease and will be closing down for good. The coffee shop shared a post on Instagram thanking their loyal customers. The post read: "Our shop lease expires in a few months and we've decided not to renew the lease. "We've had a great time brewing our lovely coffee for you and will miss you all. Thank you for your support." Fans flocked to the shop's social media to express their sadness over the news. One person wrote: "A really sad day. Thank you for all the lovely coffee and chats over the years. Another one added: "Sorry to hear this. You'll be missed on our wee high street. All the Best for the future and thanks for all the decent chat and awesome coffee!" A third person said: "Really sad to hear this news. Best coffee in South Queensferry." Someone else wrote: "So sad to hear this we went down this morning and found shop closed. Thinking of u all. U treated us really good. "Loved the coffee and husband liked the Biscoff pastry. Good luck to u all for the future. Will miss u." Poundland to be sold for JUST £1 as frontrunner for shock takeover is revealed after wave of store closures Most customers have been left gutted at the closure news with many saying they will miss the lovely conversations with the owners. Brew Culture celebrated its fourth anniversary in March and had raving reviews on Google with 4.7 star rating. It comes after a legendary greasy spoon in London announced its closure after five years. The North London eatery Norman's Cafe has long been a hub for influencers and fashion-forward people looking for a greasy spoon with a difference. Opened by Sunday Brunch chef Elliot Kaye and Richie Hayes, the posh restaurant first opened its doors in 2020. Norman's Cafe began as a sandwich shop before widening its menu to include a range of British classics. Despite its immense popularity, however, the shop's owners announced that it will close its doors in June 2025. The shop's closure comes as luxury eateries have been forced to close across the UK. Soaring rent prices have led many to shut their doors, with some blaming the Government's decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers. However, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that her decision was necessary to stabilise the economy - which unexpectedly grew in April. Others, like La Goccia in Covent Garden, blamed 'Covid' and 'Brexit' for making it difficult to hire trained staff.
Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Sunday Brunch star chef suddenly closes ‘legendary' greasy spoon restaurant after 5 years in ‘very tough' decision
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) AN ICONIC chef has been forced to close his 'legendary' greasy spoon after just five years. The Sunday Brunch star shared that he closed the restaurant in what was a 'very tough' decision. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 Norman's Cafe in London first opened in 2020 Credit: Instagram 5 The cafe was a hub for the capital's most stylish inhabitants Credit: Instagram 5 The cafe specialised in British classics Credit: Instagram The North London eatery Norman's Cafe has long been a hub for influencers and fashion-forward people looking for a greasy spoon with a difference. Opened by Sunday Brunch chef Elliot Kaye and Richie Hayes, the posh restaurant first opened its doors in 2020. Norman's Cafe began as a sandwich shop before widening its menu to include a range of British classics. Despite its immense popularity, however, the shop's owners announced that it will close its doors in June 2025. The pair took to Instagram to break the news. They wrote: 'We would like to thank all of our customers & regulars who have dined with us & have shown the cafe support since we have opened. 'To all our amazing staff past & present, Thank you for all your hard work. 'We are both excited to progress and develop with what we have started at Norman's through other avenues & look forward to hopefully seeing some of you again soon.' The closure has come as a shock to many - particularly as it has partnered with some of the world's biggest fashion houses. The Archway based restaurant was taken over by Burberry in 2023, as part of the world-leading London Fashion Week. Sunday Brunch guest chef Elliot Kaye shares a beans on toast recipe Norman's was decked out in the brand's signature blue colour, while cabs across the capital were adorned with an English Rose print. The major Tube stop Bond Street also saw its name being changed to Burberry Street. The shop's closure comes as luxury eateries have been forced to close across the UK. Soaring rent prices have led many to shut their doors, with some blaming the Government's decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers. However, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that her decision was necessary to stabilise the economy - which unexpectedly grew in April. Others, like La Goccia in Covent Garden, blamed 'Covid' and 'Brexit' for making it difficult to hire trained staff. 5 Elliot Kaye rocketed to fame on Sunday Brunch Credit: Channel 4
Time Out
19-05-2025
- Business
- Time Out
Legendary north London cafe Norman's is closing
We bring sad tidings for London's fry-up fanatics — the city's favourite posh greasy spoon in shutting its doors. In a post on Monday, May 19, Norman's Cafe, run by Elliot Kaye and Richie Hayes, wrote: 'After 5 great years of Norman's Cafe we have made the very tough decision to close our location in North London.' Norman's opened in Archway in 2020, beginning life as a sandwich shop before evolving into a proper caff, serving classic British favourites and childhood comfort meals from kippers on toast and jam roly-poly to bubble and squeak and chicken nuggets with chips and beans. You can read more about how the caff was born here. In the announcement of the closure Kaye and Hayes added: 'We are both excited to progress and develop with what we have started at Norman's through other avenues and look forward to hopefully seeing some of you again soon.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by NORMAN'S (@normanscafelondon) If you still want to get your gnashers around Norman's Guinness bread and butter, scotch eggs or full English while you still can, you've got until its last day of service on Sunday, June 8.
New York Times
24-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Is British Food Still a Joke?
Food Matters takes a closer look at what we eat and how it defines us. It's hard to describe classic British dishes without reinforcing the stereotype that English food is bland, beige and soggy. Fish pie: a monochromatic pairing of milky cod and mashed potato. Mushy peas: boiled legumes puréed into pulp. Even summer pudding, filled with vibrant fresh berries, is encased in wet white bread. The English relationship to food is 'ambivalent, highly discordant and often superficial,' writes the British anthropologist Kate Fox in her 2004 book, 'Watching the English.' Maybe it was the Puritans' self-deprivation, or the Industrial Revolution, which separated working-class people from the land, or the rationing of World War II, but the English have rarely approached food with the full-bodied passion of the French or the Italians. Caring too much about what we eat has historically been embarrassing for us. In the mid-20th century, immigrants from former colonies, including India, Pakistan and parts of the Caribbean, began to arrive in Britain in larger numbers, enriching the country's food with new flavors. And over the past two decades, London's restaurant scene has risen to a world-class level, with celebrated spots for Thai soup, Trinidadian roti and Nigerian barbecue. Now, finally, traditional British fare is improving too — and at the peak of a globalized high-end food culture that favors small plates and garnishes placed with tweezers, the unabashed plainness of it feels increasingly refreshing. A British man known as Old Dry Keith went viral on Chinese social media a couple of years ago with his austere lunches of buttered toast and boiled eggs. And in 2023, the British fashion house Burberry partnered with Norman's Cafe, a reboot of a classic English greasy spoon that opened in London in 2020, promoting its new collection with the help of starchy comfort food like chip butties (a carb-on-carb sandwich of thick fries in a bun). If some of this attention can be attributed to a perverse fascination with British grimness — particularly of the type captured in the photographer Martin Parr's starkly lit images of sausages and baked beans — and even a kind of working-class cosplay, it also corresponds to a deeper reappraisal by a new generation of chefs. Last year, the London culinary institution St. John, run by the chef Fergus Henderson and known for its nose-to-tail British cooking, celebrated its 30th anniversary. Now the younger chefs who've passed through its kitchen and that of the similarly influential Rochelle Canteen, founded in 2004 by the chef Margot Henderson, Fergus's wife, have begun to open their own restaurants, offering fresh takes on the canon. 'Everyone criticized [us] because our food was so brown,' says Margot, 60, of the response to her and Fergus's early dishes. 'But we love brown food. It's about letting it be.' She's become known for remastering English standards like boiled ham with parsley sauce and Lancashire hot pot, a stew of lamb, potatoes and onion. 'British food is gentle and so simply [made],' she says. But 'simple is not easy.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
