The Glenwood Restaurant owner Adam Robinson announced in a heartfelt letter on Monday the 26th of February that their restaurant would be closing.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
(The Glenwood Restaurant closes its doors.)This is a sad letter, written, appropriately with Verdi’s requiem playing in the background.
It is a letter to our loyal customers to announce the closing of the doors of The Glenwood Restaurant. To announce moreover the end of my life at the restaurant stove after 35 years of absorption.
We have loved The Glenwood Restaurant and I have loved it the most of the 7 restaurants that I have owned. Aesthetically, both visually and prandially, it has been and will remain in memory, my favourite. Like all such operations it requires a huge amount of hard work and long hours. And, though, primarily driven by aesthetics, there have to be other, more mundane rewards forthcoming. Unfortunately, after two years of continued effort, the lesser rewards are not.
Evidently, not enough of Durban wants the kind of food I like to cook or the sort of local, individual restaurant that we want to run. As always, I tried to create a classic “bistro du quartier”, but it was not to be. So we bow out.
The final curtain will be drawn on 19th May, as I enter my 60th year. We and our team will be doing the utmost to dazzle in the intervening three months so that, on the final call, we hope to inspire a gnashing of teeth and a beating of breasts.
This closure, of course, will not affect The Bakery in any way.
Adam and Carin
This is now the second eatery to anounce its closure in Durban, in the space of a week.
We recently published a post; Spiga Doro Durban – the popular family run, neighbourhood Italian restaurant at 200 Florida Road, will be closing its doors indefinitely this Sunday (4 March 2018).
[RELATED] – SPIGA DORO NOW CLOSED
It appears that Durbanites are not supporting it’s local eateries forcing these “fine dining” type eateries to change their business model or close.
Along with the above two eateries closing. The Morning Trade Market a fantastic artisanal food and retail space also recently announced it’s closure.
