Restaurant Announces Closure as 10-Year Lease Comes to an End.
Rustic Kitchen, a Mar Vista Restaurant and Wine Bar which is a family-owned eatery operated by Chef Noelle Fanaris & Certified Sommelier John Fanaris will close this month. The restaurant’s social media account on Instagram posted a letter to its customers on December 28.
The letter comes without any previous indication of trouble and it seems, like so many other restaurants lately, that the ending of the owner’s lease signaled the ending for them. It is not yet known, as in many other restaurant closures, if an increase in the rent was a factor, but it seems possible…