{"id":233543,"date":"2025-07-03T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233543\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:21:10","slug":"much-loved-restaurant-in-major-scots-city-shut-by-devastated-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233543\/","title":{"rendered":"Much-loved restaurant in major Scots city shut by &#8216;devastated&#8217; owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE owners of two popular Italian restaurants revealed they were forced to shut one due to the &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; costs.<\/p>\n<p>Dea Delossi, 38, says the &#8220;bittersweet&#8221; decision to close Sora Lella near The Meadows in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> was made due to financial strains over operating the bistro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK, Scotland, Edinburgh, skyline, Dugald Stewart Monument,\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"GETTY\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/566-40jpg-JS1007071025.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sora Lella's closure will come as a blow for diners in Edinburgh\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/566-40jpg-JS1007071025.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Sora Lella&#8217;s closure will come as a blow for diners in EdinburghCredit: GETTY<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sora Lella vegan Roman restaurant and pizzeria and Brougham Foot Clinic next to each other.\" height=\"597\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sora.jpg\" data-caption=\"The restaurant was acclaimed for its Roman-inspired vegan dishes\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sora.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was acclaimed for its Roman-inspired vegan dishes<\/p>\n<p>She vowed to bring favourite dishes from the spot to sister location Sora Diana a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>Dea said: &#8220;We realised the expenses were too high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s ridiculous how much the expenses are rising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We realised we had to give up something so we decided it was time to close it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are giving away the premises but we will maintain the name. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/restaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restaurant<\/a> will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/remain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remain<\/a> open and we will focus everything on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is basically my passion, it is very close to my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sora Lella opened six years ago and was dedicated to creating Roman-inspired vegan dishes with the idea of opening a &#8220;safe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a>&#8221; for diners.<\/p>\n<p>Rising costs forced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/closure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closure<\/a> of the restaurant, which shut for the last time on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dea says her team tried &#8220;whatever we could do&#8221; to keep both sites running but made the choice to concentrate on Sora Diana due to the bigger space it offers.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved Italian restaurant chain abruptly closes 4 locations after going bankrupt for third time and fans &#8216;so sad&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She says best-selling pastas and pizzas will be among the dishes carried over.<\/p>\n<p>Dea added: &#8220;We will keep the same prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE owners of two popular Italian restaurants revealed they were forced to shut one due to the &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,786,918,4884,2199,712,5119,2978,898,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-food-and-drink","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","16":"tag-small-business","17":"tag-store-closings","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}