{"id":368325,"date":"2025-08-23T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368325\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:56:14","slug":"the-skull-bar-in-royal-star-arcade-maidstone-shuts-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368325\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skull Bar in Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone, shuts suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A restaurant chain, which had already closed before due to financial problems, has shut again, much to the disappointment of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Skull Bar in Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone, announced its closure yesterday (August 22).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1540 1176\" alt=\"The Skull Bar in Maidstone has closed its doors\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"DA3IU9Z5BMCK8YCNWGJM.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.31\"\/>The Skull Bar in Maidstone has closed its doors<\/p>\n<p>In response, customers expressed their sadness on social media, calling it a \u201creally special place\u201d with \u201cone of the best burgers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The venue had previously been a fully vegan eatery, called The Rainbow Skull Grill, in London Road,<a href=\"https:\/\/kentonline.co.uk\/maidstone\/news\/more-units-go-on-market-at-shopping-centre-277966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> but it shut in December 2022, citing rising energy and food costs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/maidstone\/news\/vegan-restaurant-to-reopen-as-bar-but-with-meat-on-the-men-280373\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it returned months later with a new name, The Skull Bar, and meat on the menu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The venue served craft beer, rum selections, cocktails and &#8220;simple&#8221; food like burgers and chicken wings.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Facebook, The Skull Bar team said: \u201cAs many of you are aware we are now closed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1068 916\" alt=\"The Rainbow Skull Grill had closed in December 2022 due to rising costs\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"ZBLX7HYHJEB8LZH3G7NL.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.17\"\/>The Rainbow Skull Grill had closed in December 2022 due to rising costs<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe again would love to thank you for all your customer over the years. We had the best team. Our little skull family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cR.I.P team skull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/kentonline.co.uk\/maidstone\/news\/more-units-put-up-for-rent-at-shopping-centre-as-software-co-322655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loss of The Skull Bar is another blow to the shopping centre which recently lost technology and software company, RTMS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Star Arcade in the centre of town connects the High Street with Market Buildings and Earl Street.<\/p>\n<p>It can house up to 28 retail units and is already home to the successful Pad Thai Live, and its sister beach-themed bar.<\/p>\n<p>But, over the years it has come under scrutiny as a number of businesses within the shopping centre have been put on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant chain, which had already closed before due to financial problems, has shut again, much to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,495,9137,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-kent","10":"tag-maidstone","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080553034261535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368325","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=368325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}