Grecian Gourmet Taverna will close its doors on South Main in November, citing customer bases that have not yet rebounded from the Covid-19 pandemic. The Greek restaurant announced the move on Facebook Tuesday morning, calling it a “very difficult decision.”
“We’ve worked so hard to build back, but we had to [take] stock of our life and time spent in the restaurant…
Grecian Gourmet
”Covid was hard on all of us, but especially the small businesses that survive on local business lunch and tourism, neither of which have yet rebounded to pre-pandemic numbers — and we’re tired,” reads the post. “We’ve worked so hard to build back, but we had to [take] stock of our life and time spent in the restaurant, and decided it’s time to focus on how we started — and make it even better.”
The restaurant began in 2017 in the Memphis Farmers Market. The owners signed a lease for the South Main restaurant space in December of that year.
The restaurant will be reborn as “Grecian Gourmet Kitchen” and focus on retail and catering from a new space in East Memphis.
The restaurant’s last open day downtown will be Wednesday, November 23rd.