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Thali to close Totterdown restaurant ‘with heavy heart’
One of Bristol’s five Thali restaurants is to close at the end of this month, with its owners saying that Bristol’s “oversubscribed” restaurant scene has played a part in their difficult decision.
The Thali in Totterdown opened in 2008 and is currently one of five Thali restaurants across the city in Easton, Montpelier, Southville and Clifton Village.
All of the team at the William Street restaurant are being relocated across the other remaining Thalis in Bristol, with the Totterdown business’ last day due to be March 31.
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Dominika Sawicka-Harris and Pepe Antonio Blanco Rodriguez are two of the four members of Thali staff who bought the business in 2018, saving it from collapse
Thali managing director Dominika Sawicka-Harris told Bristol24/7: “It is with a heavy heart that the new management team has decided to close the Totterdown Thali restaurant.
“Our Totterdown site has not been meeting expectations and coupled with an oversubscribed Bristol restaurant market the team felt that closing the site gives the new business the security needed going forward.”
Dominika was among a group of four Thali members of staff to take on the business themselves in 2018 – in the process saving their own jobs as well as the livelihoods of 80 colleagues.
Thali started as a street food truck at Glastonbury Festival and opened their first restaurant in Montpelier in 2001.
Tortterdown’s Thali restaurant seats 50 people over two floors and was originally the King William pub.
Before the Thali it was the Glasnost restaurant (named Bristol restaurant of the year by Venue magazine in 2000), and was previously used as a radio workshop and a prosthetic limb factory.
Inside the Totterdown Thali – photo courtesy of Thali
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