{"id":2399,"date":"2009-05-20T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2009-05-21T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:02:50","slug":"more-restaurant-ups-and-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/more-restaurant-ups-and-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"More restaurant ups and downs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Another fatality of the credit crunch is the closure of coffee shop Donatella’s in the V & A Waterfront, which belonged to Ian Halfon, owner of the St. Elmo’s pizza chain, and of the Balthazar and Balducci restaurants in the Waterfront.\u00a0\u00a0 It closed overnight last week.<\/p>\n

Recently Madame Zingara, The Showroom, Summerville, Cafe Delmar and Wangthai in Camps Bay, 48 on Hout,\u00a0and Riboville closed down.<\/p>\n

Selected outlets of Melissa, The Dros, Cattle Baron, Cape Town Fish Market,\u00a0\u00a0Wangthai, Sundance Cafe’s, and St. Elmo’s have closed down recently, reports the Weekend Argus<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Good news is that ex-Showroom owner Bruce Robertson\u00a0has opened The Quarter in Long Street, in the same building as the New Space Theatre, and two doors away from The Showroom Cafe, which also belongs to Robertson.<\/p>\n

The three Vida e Caffe coffee shops that recently closed on Greenmarket Square, in St George’s Mall and in the Bayside Mall, have re-opened, now belonging directly to the franchisor, and no longer to the franchisee.<\/p>\n

Auctioneer Rael Levitt of the Alliance Group\u00a0and City Partnership CEO Andrew Borraine warn\u00a0of further tough times ahead, and say that this will affect the restaurant trade, in that there are too many new restaurants combined with a cut back by patrons\u00a0eating out at restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another fatality of the credit crunch is the closure of coffee shop Donatella’s in the V & A Waterfront, which belonged to Ian Halfon, owner of the St. Elmo’s pizza chain, and of the Balthazar and Balducci restaurants in the Waterfront.\u00a0\u00a0 It closed overnight last week. Recently Madame Zingara, The Showroom, Summerville, Cafe Delmar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[1356,1349,1348,1179,484,1350,1353,13,1355,1351,32,1352,283,664],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t