Richmond restaurant news: Bye to Kitchen 64 and downtown Quiznos

• Giavos did not respond to a request for comment.

🥪 Quiznos is closing its downtown location at 707 E. Main St. at the end of service Friday.

• An email to office tenants shared with Axios says the restaurant chain decided not to renew its lease after 16 years in operation.

🍝 Sprezza, a southern Italian pop-up, is opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the former Morton’s space in Shockoe Slip in November, Richmond Magazine reports.

🥘 Elegant Cuizines — a restaurant with American and West African influences — is in the works top open next month in the the former True’s Cultural Kitchen, per Richmond BizSense.

🥃 It’s Negroni Week — a week when restaurants across the globe serve up the Campari-based cocktail and special Negroni-based cocktails and give a portion of proceeds to the Slow Food movement.

• Roughly a dozen local spots are participating.
• The Jasper has a full, special Negroni menu all week.