Chef who worked for Jamie Oliver suddenly closes restaurant and cancels all future bookings in ‘stomach churning’ news

A CHEF who worked astatine 1 of Jamie Oliver's restaurants has announced helium volition shutter his ain nutrient spot successful quality which has devastated locals.

Andy and Lyndsey Appleton person cancelled each bookings and laid disconnected unit astatine the eponymous Appleton's successful Fowey, Cornwall.

The fashionable spot started welcoming successful famished locals successful 2016 and rapidly became a fashionable fixture for residents of the larboard town, Devon Live reported.

Andy, who antecedently worked arsenic the erstwhile caput cook of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall, sent retired the announcement connected Instagram.

"We are profoundly saddened and with a deep, changeless feeling of nausea successful the pits of our tummy we station this to accidental we person closed the edifice with contiguous effect," the mates wrote.

"All creditors volition beryllium contacted successful the adjacent week, each aboriginal reservations volition beryllium cancelled and hopefully contacted (we’re atrocious we won’t beryllium capable to look aft you) delight beryllium benignant and diligent should you request a effect from anyone and delight nonstop those queries to america and not our team."

Appleton's was divided implicit 2 floors and featured an eye-catching cocktail bar and a deli.

The squad chiefly served up tasty Italian dishes with section Cornish produce.

The Times' nutrient adept ranked the gaff arsenic among the champion restaurants successful Cornwall and it was a finalist for edifice of the twelvemonth successful the Food Lifestyle Awards 2024.

The mates paid tribute to their hard-working staff, and reflected connected the "stomach churning" determination to propulsion the plug.

They continued: "We person [had] an unthinkable radical of radical who were successful our unit household and are present without enactment and awaiting redundancy conscionable before Christmas, which again makes our stomachs churn.

"If we ever extremity up successful a presumption wherever we could employment them, we would bash truthful successful a heartbeat.

"If anyone has thing oregon are looking for immoderate truly peculiar individuals delight get successful interaction with america and I tin guardant that on.

"To each our customers (and truthful then, friends) that person dined with america and supported america implicit the years and enjoyed our hospitality oregon experienced what we do, to anyone that has celebrated thing oregon simply smiled oregon laughed wrong our walls, convey you."

Gutted locals weighed successful connected the quality - and heaved praise connected the "talented and passionate" owners.

One said: "I’m truthful bittersweet and it’s a nonaccomplishment for the municipality you volition beryllium missed.

"It’s specified hard enactment and we each enactment successful everything arsenic concern owners.

"Thinking of each of you x."

Another weighed in: "Oh no! You guys created thing very, precise peculiar implicit these past fewer years and we were privileged to devour astatine your 2 establishments.

"So precise atrocious Lynds and Andy - you are some incredibly talented, passionate individuals who I sincerely anticipation volition emergence again."

It comes aft a apical cook who worked for BBC's Rick Stein has unexpectedly closed his Michelin restaurant and revealed that plans "will beryllium released soon".

Chef Roy Brett has announced plans to unopen and relocate Ondine Oyster & Grill successful aboriginal 2025.

He archetypal opened the Michelin restaurant successful 2009 in Edinburgh's Old Town.

In 2021, Brett began works connected the exterior of the Ondine Oyster & Grill to lucifer a ship.

However, owed to "unforeseen circumstances" the edifice was near covered successful scaffolding.

This led the cook to adjacent his restaurant, arsenic helium felt the customers deserved better.