Oriental Table on Exchange Street will be closing by the end of this month. Owner Yan Lam tells me that they’re closing due to difficulty with the landlord. Lam plans on re-opening once he’s found a new spot.
Oriental Table has been a fixture on Exchange Street for more than 17 years.
The Golden Dish has published details from his recent meal at Figa and owner Lee Farrington’s announcement that she’s closing up the restaurant for another few months until April or May to “regroup”.
Before we left I went up to Lee to say how much we enjoyed dinner and glad that she was back.
But then she dropped her bombshell. Figa would be closed again, this time for about two months. She still needed to rethink her concept, tidy up her home life and figure it all out.
I didn’t understand. If it ain’t broke why fix it?
According to a report in today’s Press Herald, the Wok Inn in South Portland is closing as of today.
The closing may seem sudden to its fans, but the restaurant’s owners say that its original purpose, to put the Lee children, graduates of Scarborough High School, through college, was accomplished some years ago…It’s a bittersweet time for the family. They’re looking forward to leaving behind the grueling schedule the restaurant requires, but they’re also saying good-bye to longtime customers who have become friends and regulars, like Munson.
Figa has announced that they are closing up the restaurant as of December 29th.
WE HERE AT FIGA ARE HEAVY HEARTED AND SAD TO SAY THAT DECEMBER 29TH WILL BE OUR LAST DAY. WE HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE AND RE GROUP AND FIGURE OUR NEXT STEP…. NOT TOO SURE WHAT THAT WILL CONSIST OF….EITHER RE-OPENING WITH SOMETHING MORE LOW KEY AND FUN…OR MOVE ON ALTOGETHER….TO BE CONTINUED AT THIS POINT.
The message on their website goes on to say that they’ll be retaining their licenses in order to do catering and private functions.
Sebastian’s has gone out of business. The restaurant has been temporarily closed pending a sale of the business, but the sale fell through and now the space is available for lease.
Plush West End has gone out of business. The bar and small plate restaurant had opened a little more than a year ago in the old Katahdin space on High Street.
Mr. Sandwich & Mrs. Muffin in Bramhall Square went out of business on Saturday.
District has closed.
Y-Lime’s Gourmet has announced that they’re shutting down their retail space in the Public Market House. (via Edible Obsessions)
We have sad news :(. We have decided to close our retail shop in the Public Market House. Thank you to all our customers and friends for your support! We have met some really wonderful people these past few months…
According to a report in the Portland Daily Sun, Gogi has gone out of business but one-time co-owner Ian Farnsworth hopes to reopen later this year.
Farnsworth said he sold his interest in Gogi Restaurant to his business partner Hwamin Yi, and that she closed the restaurant, despite his desire to see it continue.
“The dream of this type of restaurant is still alive and I am hopeful I can re-open in a different location by the end of 2012,” Farnsworth wrote on Facebook. (Efforts to contact Yi for comment were unsuccessful.)