Adelaide loses two CBD restaurants
Adelaide has lost two well-known city restaurants, prompting a warning from the Restaurant and Catering Association that the days of a long business lunch are over.
A handwritten notice on the door of Insieme Ristorante on Flinders Street says the closure is due to unforeseen circumstances.
Cos Restaurant on Leigh Street also posted a notice, advising that it was permanently closed after being placed under voluntary administration last week and is looking for a buyer.
Restaurant and Catering Association deputy CEO Sally Neville says that the public now want a faster, less formal lunch, with the days of the long business lunch now a thing of the past.
“The pressures of business mean there isn’t so much time for those long lunches,” she told InDaily. “There’s a lot more casual dining … takeaway (and) people eating at their desks.”
Sheridan Randall, 17th April 2019
