Pizza East insists Shoreditch closure only 'temporary' as it shutters both sites

Pizza East announced the closure of its Notting Hill restaurant late last year with the restaurant’s final service on 31 December.

The Shoreditch restaurant continued to operate into the new year but, as revealed by Eater London​​​ earlier this week, the restaurant closed on 15 January.

While Eater London ​reports that both restaurants have shuttered permanently, Soho House says that the Shoreditch restaurant has only closed ‘temporarily’.

However, the group failed to offer any sort of timeframe as to when it expects the restaurant to reopen.

Eater London ​says that ‘internal strategic priorities and personnel change at Soho House could be behind the decision’ to close the two restaurants.

Nick Jones, who founded Soho House and led the company as CEO for 27 years, announced back in November that he was stepping back from his role as chief executive at the private members’ club, following treatment for cancer.

Soho House declined to comment on the contents of the Eater ​article.

Pizza East opened its original site in 2009 within The Tea Building in Shoreditch that also houses Soho House’s flagship Shoreditch House private member’s club.

It launched its second site​​ on Portobello in Notting Hill in 2011.