Manchester's restaurant and beer bar that was dedicated to sausage and mash has quietly closed its doors.
The Mash Tun, which took over the old Grafene site in 2019, has bowed out from the city centre with seemingly less than 12 months of trading under its belt.
Most of the restaurant's social media pages have fallen silent or been deleted, and the venue is now listed as permanently closed.
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It sat on a pedestrianised strip just off King Street, in the same building as Gary Usher's Kala.
The restaurant was launched by local restaurateur Adam Regan, who was also behind Mexica and The Cutting Room in Ancoats, Folk & Soul in the Northern Quarter, and the Fundamentum Taproom near Piccadilly, all of which have closed over the years.
Regan also promised Goose Fat & Wild Garlic on Cutting Room Square - that plan was quietly swapped for El Gato Negro's Portuguese restaurant Canto.
It appears that the doors to the Mash Tun were locked for good during the first lockdown in 2020, just 10 months after the restaurant launched.
But reviews on TripAdvisor and Google suggest the business was on its way out even before the pandemic began, with several customers reporting that they arrived for bookings to find the restaurant closed in March 2020.
One person posted : "Had a meal booked at 3pm on Saturday turned up all shut in darkness.
"A bloke turned up who happened be a chef for these ppl asked at 10am too do a shift he waited for over an hour outside with myself my partner and other waiting customers.
"He could get hold of the owners let allow management until a call came around 4:30pm saying no one turning up too open!"
Its niche was that its menu was made up of 10 types of sausage, 10 types of mash, and 10 types of gravy, leading to 1000 different combinations of the British classic.
The M.E.N. has approached the owners for comment.
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