Since December 2019 nearly 12,000 bars, pubs and restaurants have closed in Britain – a rate of around 30 a day, and this is expected to rise sharply over the coming months.

The coronavirus pandemic led to the permanent closure of 9,930 licensed premises last year, according to a recent report from CGA and AlixPartners.

London has two more high profile restaurants, as Simon Rogan’s Roganic and StreetXO, the London outpost of Spanish chef David Muñoz, have both permanently closed.

Over 110,000 restaurants in the US – one in six – have been forced to close since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the National Restaurant Association.

Two Lights in Shoreditch, the sister restaurant to The Clove Club, is to close its doors for good after finding itself unable to keep trading through the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devasating effect on the US on-trade, with 15,770 restaurants having closed permanently, according to a report by Yelp.

The London outpost of Indian Accent will not reopen when lockdown is lifted, however the company said chef Manish Mehrotra and his team hope to return to the capital in the future. 

London institution Le Caprice in St James’s, a celebrity haunt and favourite of Princess Diana, will not reopen once the lockdown restrictions are lifted.

We round up this week’s news, including the opening of a restaurant serving a six-course menu inspired by a chip shop, and a cheese-focused eatery based on a barge.

We round up this week’s restaurant news from a MasterChef: The Professionals star opening a new brasserie and wine bar, to the reported closure of Nobu on Berkeley Square.

Gezellig, the wine-focused restaurant inside Holborn Town Hall founded by sommelier Wieteke Teppema, has closed just eight months after opening.

Founded by chef Tom Norrington-Davies in 2007, the restaurant will close this month following 12 years in London’s West End.