Pastan shutters its Brighton restaurant after less than a year
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While Pastan’s website lists the site as being closed temporarily, a sign outside indicates that it has been successfully let to what is presumably a new tenant.
The 25-cover restaurant launched at the very beginning of this year just off London Road on Baker Street in the site that was once home to Semolina.
The creation of Jerome Ibanez-Fawcett and chef Dean Fawcett who saw a ‘huge’ gap in the market for vegan pasta, Pastan launched its first permanent site in Bristol in 2020 following successful pop-ups in both Bristol and London.
The brand currently operates a further three sites, one in London’s Barbican and two in Spain in Barcelona and Malaga.
In 2022, it launched a site in Manchester but that restaurant has now closed.
Dishes at Pastan include shiitake Caesar salad; loaded gnocchi with a choice of either tomato, plant-based ‘cheese’ or mushroom; pumpkin and sage tortellini dressed with sage butter; vegan mac ‘n’ cheese; a take on spaghetti alla puttanesca; and the signature Dolce Vita, a vegan interpretation of carbonara made with a coconut-based sauce.
Earlier this year, the brand added a range of vegan pizza to its menus.