A ‘heartbroken’ restaurant owner in Clifton says the Covid-19 pandemic and a lack of support from the Government has killed off his business, forcing it to close.
The owner of 99 Queens, which opened back in 2016 and was one of Bristol’s top restaurants and bars, said the business has had to shut down ‘because of the whole c**p we have dealt with in the last two years’. Richard Avison said the Queens Road restaurant, which was named by Bristol Live food critic Mark Taylor as the place with the best English breakfast in Bristol, had not survived coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Owner Richard Avison said they had tried their hardest to get through the last winter, but didn’t survive it. “We tried our hardest to try and get through December after everything Bojo did to destroy hospitality. And sadly… we didn’t survive it,” he said in a message to regulars last week.
