{"id":680448,"date":"2026-01-07T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:16:20","slug":"family-run-restaurant-announces-closure-after-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680448\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-run restaurant announces closure after 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 2026 is the restaurant’s last full month of trading\"TheThe 23 Group’s Andy, Tom and Gary Peters<\/p>\n

The team behind multiple Merseyside establishments have announced the closure of one of their restaurants. The Tree House in Crosby<\/a> is having its last full month of trading this month, with the venue shutting for the final time in February.<\/p>\n

The eatery on Coronation Road belongs to the 23 Group, the family-run company also behind Bold Street and Castle Street\u2019s So Salsa and Crosby\u2019s SaltRock.<\/a> It originally opened more than a decade ago in 2012 and was then run by the owners of Fat Italian restaurants.<\/p>\n

However, a few years later, in 2016, it was taken over by the Peters family. Fast forward to now, and The Tree House is preparing to serve its last ever set of customers. Taking to social media, to inform its thousands of followers, the team said: \u201cOur journey has had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom taking a risk of buying The Tree House and working together as a small, knit family, to now employing over 100 staff across seven sites. The Tree House is where it all began, and we will forever be grateful. We’ve employed staff who become family and met customers who become friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TreeThe Tree House in Crosby is shutting in February<\/p>\n

As part of the closing, the team has put on a \u201cfinal chapter\u201d deal which sees customers get two courses for \u00a320 during certain times throughout the week.<\/p>\n

Those who have bought a voucher for the restaurant will be able to redeem it in The Tree House\u2019s sister sites. The ECHO understands all other sites belonging to the 23 Group will continue to operate as normal.<\/p>\n

It comes after another Merseyside venue announced \u201cwith a heavy heart\u201d that it had closed. The Hightown Pub in Hightown, Sefton,<\/a> initially shut after its owners said they were forced to close due to the worsening climate<\/a> of the hospitality industry and the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n

\"TreeTree House has called Crosby its home for more than a decade now<\/p>\n

However, the Lower Alt Road site was temporarily saved when GSG Hospitality, the team behind Duke Street Market<\/a> and NORD, stepped in and put executive chef Daniel Heffy at its helm.<\/p>\n

Daniel, alongside partners Matt Farrell and John Ennis, transformed the space into a \u201cdynamic hub of hospitality\u201d, under the new name The Hightown Inn. Now, as of this week, the venue has closed once again after a \u201ccombination of ongoing challenges\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hightown Inn said: \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we share the news that we have decided to step away from The Hightown Inn, and the pub will be handed over to new owners in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved at The Hightown Inn, we feel we have reinvigorated the pub for the village and created a place we truly believed in. We hope that legacy continues long into the future.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Hightown Pub and Kitchen(Image: Bernard Platt)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never been willing to compromise on quality, from well-sourced ingredients to the standards we hold ourselves to, and this is getting tougher in the current hospitality climate. This decision has been shaped by a combination of ongoing challenges, the recent budget, wider government policies and broken promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this together has made it unsustainable to continue in the way we believe mirrors our culture at GSG. As a result, we will be focusing our efforts on other areas of the business and from the 5th January, The Hightown Inn will close and have no affiliation with GSG Hospitality from then onwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur priority throughout this process has been to ensure a smooth transition, with the pub closed for the shortest possible time, so as not to disrupt our brilliant staff or the local community while the new owners take over.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 2026 is the restaurant’s last full month of tradingThe 23 Group’s Andy, Tom and Gary Peters The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,5765,393,786,4884,179,8899,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-680448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crosby","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-liverpool-restaurants","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115855188860907754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680448","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=680448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}