Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo's Italian fine dining restaurant Luciano has closed its doors for good in Alderley Edge - after a final Valentine's night dinner service. The venue bowed out sending a message to email subscribers with the word "grazie" - the Italian word for thank you.
New owners, famed Italian restaurant group San Carlo, have now taken the keys to the venue, at its prominent site on London Road in the upmarket Cheshire village. They are now to spend the next five weeks on a mini-refurbishment, with the aim to reopen to diners in the run-up to Easter.
Gino's Luciano concept had only been open for just over a year in Alderley Edge when the shock announcement was made last week that it was to close - with a deal agreed for San Carlo to take over. The restaurant's owners said in a statement that they were to instead concentrate on "opening upmarket restaurants in national and international major cities."
