Category: Closings

Mr. Sandwich & Mrs. Muffin in Bramhall Square went out of business on Saturday.

District has closed.

Y-Lime’s Gourmet has announced that they’re shutting down their retail space in the Public Market House. (via Edible Obsessions)

We have sad news :(. We have decided to close our retail shop in the Public Market House. Thank you to all our customers and friends for your support! We have met some really wonderful people these past few months…

According to a report in the Portland Daily Sun, Gogi has gone out of business but one-time co-owner Ian Farnsworth hopes to reopen later this year.

Farnsworth said he sold his interest in Gogi Restaurant to his business partner Hwamin Yi, and that she closed the restaurant, despite his desire to see it continue.

“The dream of this type of restaurant is still alive and I am hopeful I can re-open in a different location by the end of 2012,” Farnsworth wrote on Facebook. (Efforts to contact Yi for comment were unsuccessful.)

According to a report in The Forecaster the last of the Stonyfield Cafes (Formerly O’Naturals) closed today.

“We fought through (the downturn) with the optimism it would come back,” McCabe said, noting dinner business never picked up. “It’s too big a space for the  kinds of revenues we were putting through there.”

The shutdown leaves 14 people out of work. McCabe said their average tenure was 6 1/2 years; two people were employed for 11 years.

 

According to a report in the Forecaster, Udder Place is going out of business.

“It’s a bittersweet thing,” owner Sam Lambert said.

Several years ago, after his wife gave birth to triplets, Lambert said he decided it was time to change careers. He got his real estate license and has been working for RE/MAX in Topsham. He and his family live in Bath.

“We have four children under the age of 4,” he said. “With the economic downturn, it just made sense to move on.”

According to the article, “A few of the regulars and some Udder Place employees are hoping another coffee shop will open in the area, and are doing what they can to try to make that happen.”

Bathras Market in Williard Square has announced that they will be going out of business. January 20 will be their last day in operation.

We have had a wonderful year filled with support and encouragement from all of you, but it seems that the competition from larger supermarkets combined with the seasonal nature of our location, as well as our own family circumstances, are preventing us from doing the business we need to do in order to survive as a year-round grocery market and deli.

We have tried our best to have a unique mix of quality products with fair pricing, but it has become clear that we do not have the buying power to compete with prices at larger stores, which greatly impacts our ability to generate sales during these difficult economic times.

Indications have been piling up all week but this afternoon the Press Herald received confirmation that Havana South has gone out of business.

Michael Boland, who opened the restaurant with his wife, Deirdre Swords, in 2010, confirmed the closure today in an email to the Portland Press Herald that was also signed by chef Cassady Pappas. The restaurant’s last day of business was New Year’s Eve.

“We worked long and hard, but in the end it just wasn’t possible to continue financially,” the email read.

Deux Cochon announced today that “[d]ue to an unforseen change of wind direction, Deux Cochon has unfortunately been put on immediate kibosh.”

The American Journal has published a report on the closing of Tranchemontagne’s in Westbrook. (via the Westbrook Diarist)

“We’ve been doing a lot of off-site catering,” said Richardson. “This business has been growing so fast that we just wanted to focus our attention on one thing. With Andre’s band getting signed, something had to give a little.”