Belgo
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| Belgo | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1992 |
| Closed | 2020 |
| Owner(s) | Casual Dining Group |
| Food type | Belgian |
| Street address | 1 King's Cross Road |
| City | London |
| State | UK |
| Postal/ZIP Code | WC1X 9HX |
| Website | www |
Belgo was a chain of London restaurants specializing in simple Belgian cooking and Belgian beer. There were five Belgo restaurants: Belgo Centraal (Covent Garden), Belgo Holborn, Belgo Kings Cross, Belgo Nottingham and Belgo Bromley ;[1] following closures announced in July 2020.
The chain was noted for its 1990s design and architecture, including kitchens viewable by customers entering the Centraal restaurant, and waiters and waitresses who dressed as monks.[citation needed]
History
Belgo was founded in 1992 by French-Canadian Denis Blais and Anglo-Belgian Andre Plisnier.[2] For a time the brand was expanded to a chain of bar-diners known as Bierodrome in Clapham, Kingsway, and Islington, and at Belgo Zuid in Ladbroke Grove – all now closed) but it later reverted to the Belgo format.
Belgo was bought in 1998 by ex-fund manager, newspaper columnist and ex-Chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson—known for his financial stewardship, with colleague Hugh Osmond, of the Pizza Express chain of pizza restaurants in the 1990s. However, attempts to extend the Belgo franchise organically beyond London in the late 1990s were not successful: the franchise in Jersey lasted barely 12 months before closing in 2000. The Belgo flotation was used as a vehicle to acquire a number of celebrated chic London restaurants, such as The Ivy, The Caprice, Daphne's The Collection and J. Sheekey, creating the 'Signature Restaurants' division, and a business with a market capital that peaked at more than £90,000,000.
존슨은 2005년 프랑스식 카페루즈 체인과 이탈리아 레스토랑의 벨라 이탈리아 체인을 소유하고 있는 트라거스 그룹에 벨고에 대한 관심을 팔았다.
2020년 7월 COVID-19 대유행의 여파로 캐주얼 다이닝 그룹은 경영에 들어갔고 벨고는 4개 사이트 중 3개를 영구 폐쇄할 것이라고 발표했다.[3]
자선
2013년, 벨고는 "가난하고 혜택 받지 못한 사람들의 삶에 긍정적이고 지속적인 변화를 가져오는 것"을 목적으로 1985년에 설립된 영국 자선단체인 코믹 릴리프의 공식 파트너였다.
참고 항목
참조
- ^ "Belgo Locations - Covent Garden, Holborn, Kings Cross, Nottingham". Belgo. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ 벨기에 맥주에 홍합 넣기 2008년 5월 17일 Wayback Machine에 보관된 Nigel Huddleston, Beers of the World, 2005년 8월 26일
- ^ Wood, Zoe (2 July 2020). "Bella Italia owner falls into administration, with loss of 1,900 jobs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
