{"id":245037,"date":"2025-07-07T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245037\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:37:16","slug":"restaurant-to-shut-after-more-than-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245037\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant to shut after more than 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another business will be taking over the spot(Image: LEC)<\/p>\n

A well-known restaurant<\/a> in East Bristol<\/a> has announced it is closing down after more than 20 years. Thali on St Marks’ Road, Easton<\/a>, made the announcement on Instagram last night (Sunday, July 6).<\/p>\n

The closure will only impact the Thali in Easton, with the one in Montpelier <\/a>staying open.<\/p>\n

The spot along the popular road in Easton will be taken over by Chai Guy, who currently run a coffee shop just a few doors’ down on the same road.<\/p>\n

Writing on Instagram, Thali said: “After 20+ amazing years, Easton Thali is closing its doors.<\/p>\n

“Huge love and thanks to all our brilliant staff and loyal customers \u2013 it\u2019s been one hell of a ride! “The good news? Bahram from Chai Guy is taking over the space with a brand new concept and we can\u2019t wait to see what he cooks up! “Need your Thali fix? Our friends Asha & Ramesh at Montpelier Thali have you covered and are keeping the Thali favourites going strong. “Much love, Team Thali.”<\/p>\n

(Image: Bristol Live)<\/p>\n

Several people reacted to the social media post, with one saying: “Oh, so sad to see you go.”<\/p>\n

“So many great meals here,” wrote another.<\/p>\n

Thali is a well-known restaurant in the city and, after building a solid reputation for itself in Bristol, the much-loved institution opened a restaurant further afield in Oxford back in the late 2010s, which was supposed to be a springboard for further UK openings.<\/p>\n

However, this expansion proved to be its downfall. In May 2018 the parent company, Bristol Thali Company Ltd<\/a>, entered administration following the closure of its Oxford site, which lasted just one year.<\/p>\n

In a show of defiance, the group was then bought out of administration by a private company called Jugaard Ltd, founded by former Thali staff including kitchen manager Jose Blanco Rodriguez, operations manager Dominka Paulina Sawicka-Harris and Michael Dillon, an investor who owned 75 percent of the company.<\/p>\n

But this attempt to steer the ship in the right direction proved to be ill-fated, as the Thali’s restaurants in Southville<\/a>, Clifton<\/a> and Totterdown<\/a> all shut down.<\/p>\n

After the announcement of the Easton closure, this means only one Thali now remains.<\/p>\n

Chai Guy opened its doors on St Marks Road in 2023. The street vendor behind the coffee shop decided to open a business after going viral in Spain after serving his own blend of traditional chai during the lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another business will be taking over the spot(Image: LEC) A well-known restaurant in East Bristol has announced it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,9999,9418,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-easton","11":"tag-eating-out-in-bristol","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114811518792545504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037","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=245037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}