A popular vegan pop-up has pleaded with people to support local businesses after it announced it is closing down. LD's Kitchen, which first launched during lockdown, has said the business is no longer financially viable in its current format and has warned that many independents will struggle to survive this winter.
Owner Lianna Davis opened the kitchen at Chatterton's Cafe in Redcliffe Way with her partner Aidan Sinclair at the beginning of 2021. The couple - both musicians - had lost work during the pandemic when lockdown restrictions prohibited live performances and touring, launching a plant-based barbecue kitchen to fill a gap in Bristol's food scene. It moved to a permanent home at The Kingsdown Vaults just three months later.
LD's then took over the kitchen at The Golden Lion on Gloucester Road in September last year serving up its indulgent plant-based dishes and popular roast dinners on Sundays. It has cited a price rise of a number of its core ingredients as the "final nail in the coffin", including cooking oil which has more than doubled in less than two years and will close its two operations in Bristol and London - a decision made "with a heavy heart and total devastation," it wrote on social media.
