“We told the staff last week and we started notifying all our suppliers on Monday. There are communications more difficult to make than others. The one that Frédéric Darimont and his partner Olivier Lopez must transmit is one of them. They made a difficult decision: to close the doors of Saint Andrews, located on Place du Martyr in Verviers.
At the beginning of May, when their establishment reopened in the building that housed the Bar Carlsberg before the floods – because their former location, flooded in mid-July 2021, had already been re-let –, Frédéric Darimont said he was “really happy to reopen this Thursday. We missed it terribly. »
►► But less than 5 months later, they already had to resolve to put the key under the doormat.
►► The first reason for this decision, it’s the lack of customers.
►► But other elements are far from encouraging optimism, like all rising energy costs…
