News / Restaurants
Barbecue restaurant closes two sites in Bristol
Five months after cancelling their summer festival, a barbecue business with a restaurant and market stall has shut both of its Bristol sites.
Grillstock in St Nick’s Market and its sister restaurant on the Clifton Triangle both abruptly closed on Friday.
Its website is already offline, but a statement on the Facebook page of Grillstock’s Leicester smokehouse, which also closed on Friday, said: “We are sorry to have to say this but Grillstock, as of today, has ceased trading. Thank you to everyone that has stuck with us through, what has been, a very tough year.”
is needed now More than ever
A sign on both Bristol sites directed anyone with any inquiries to Leonard Curtis, a “business rescue and recovery” company.
Grillstock abruptly ceased trading on Friday
Grillstock opened its first permanent site in St Nick’s Market in 2013 following its festivals hosted on the Lloyds Amphitheatre.
It later expanded its festival to Manchester and London, and opened restaurants in London and Bath, which have also since closed.
Its 2018 festival was due to take place in Bristol over the weekend of June 30 and July 1, but was cancelled with just over a month to go with organisers promising that it would return in 2019 with “fresh content and some new features”.
Grillstock went into administration in November 2017, with its original co-founders Jon Finch and Ben Merrington – who both left the business before it went into administration – opening Quay Street Diner earlier this year.
Grillstock opened in St Nick’s in 2013
Read more:
Grillstock cancels 2018 festival with just over a month to go
Our top newsletters emailed directly to you
