4 Richmond restaurants close, but new ones are on the way
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Some big restaurant news is popping off around town.
What's happening: A bunch of restaurants announced they're closing up shop while some new ones are in the works.
Zoom in: Lalo's Cocina in the Fan is closed after a nine-year run at 2617 W. Broad St. The owners cited inflation and not getting enough business for the closing in a sign on its door.
Sandston Smokehouse, the brick-and-mortar restaurant turned food cart, also closed up shop for good. Its owners also cited the economic climate.
Meanwhile, The Boathouse restaurant group is pulling Casa del Barco and Island Shrimp Co. out of Chesterfield Towne Center at the end of the year.
- "These locations opened at a strange time and never really found their footing," owner Kevin Healy said in a statement. Both restaurants opened in 2019.
Yes, but: Mike Lindsey's Lindsey Food Group — which can't stop /won't stop opening restaurants — is coming in hot.
- The group will open ML Steak in place of Casa and in the Island space, Kali Love, a new, California theme, seafood-heavy concept, per BizSense. Both should open early next year.
- Plus! The group will open its second location of Farm + Oak at the mall, in the former Grimaldi's pizza place, BizSense reports.
Additionally, the group's first location for Farm + Oak Kitchen — a "progressive Southern Table restaurant" that will have a menu similar to Lillie Pearl — is set to open Wednesday at 3601 Cox Road in the West End and will be open for lunch and dinner daily.
Over in the Fan, the co-owner of the now-closed Shaved Duck in Chesterfield is bringing Trouvaille to the one time Balliceaux space at 203 N. Lombardy St., per BizSense.
- The new spot should open in February, serving a frequently changing, craft cocktail-focused menu.
- It's unclear what's happening with Sprezza, which announced over the summer it was opening in the space.
In Carytown, Bryant's Cider will open a new tasting room this weekend at 3423 W. Cary St., in the former Suzy Sno spot (Suzy is moving to Brookland Park), per the Times-Dispatch.
- The cidery closed its Shockoe Bottom tasting room last weekend.
And down the road, Ripple Ray's — a Southern-style bar — should open in the spring in the former Town Hall / Weezie's Kitchen space, BizSense reports.