Vegan Indian brand SpiceBox closes sole remaining site
Writing on Instagram, founder Grace Regan encouraged regulars to visit her brand’s sole remaining site one last time.
“Rather than mourn the end, I would like to spend the next two and a half weeks celebrating all that we have achieved over the last four and a half years,” she says.
“It’s been a wild ride but it is so incredible to look back at all the joy and love that has come out of our little pink and purple shop.”
Regan founded SpiceBox back in 2015 as an Indian takeaway operating out of her own home. Street food residencies at KERB followed, and she eventually launched her own bricks and mortar restaurant in Walthamstow in early 2019.
Around that time, Regan stated her aim to turn SpiceBox into one of the UK’s largest Indian restaurant brands, an ambition that remained undimmed even after the Covid-19 pandemic.
SpiceBox opened a second site in nearby Leytonstone in 2021, but shuttered it a year later.
The business has run two significant of crowdfunding campaigns in its time, including one to launch a third East London location that never came to fruition.
As well as its restaurant business, SpiceBox also has a retail range of dhals and curries that it continues to supply to Planet Organic, Eat 17 stores and Ocado’s Zoom service.
“It’s no secret that the restaurant world has been battered by consecutive storms since March 2020 and I am afraid that our little curry house can no longer weather these storms,” Regan’s post reads.
“We have tried everything to keep our ship afloat but our time has come. In the immortal words of George Harrison, ‘All Things Must Pass’.”
SpiceBox Walthamstow’s final service will take place on 30 April.
