Slickest Seafood ‘Shack’ in Recorded History Shuts Down in Soho

Celebrated Soho seafood restaurant shuts down after three years

Bonnie Gull’s slick seafood restaurant will close on Bateman Street this Friday. Writing on Instagram, the restaurant group — which also operates a restaurant in Fitzrovia that will re-open next week after refurbishment and whose owner, Alex Hunter, opened The Sea, The Sea on Pavilion Road — said:

Sometimes great things too must end. This week we say goodbye to our beloved Bonnie Gull Soho after 3 glorious years of oysters, grilled fish and many many laughs.

One of London’s best seafood restaurants, it served a range of oysters, small plates based on British day-boat fish, and larger fish plainly grilled.

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