One of Nottingham's oldest restaurants has closed for good - another victim of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nottingham's Loch Fyne Seafood & Grill is one of 11 sites to have gone across the country.
The restaurant, in King Street, has been boarded up since the start of lockdown. In July owners Greene King told Nottinghamshire Live that they were working hard behind the scenes to reopen in line with all the necessary safety procedures and hoped to be back soon in a Covid-secure way.
However, staff have now been told that the restaurant has closed for good.
A spokesperson for Loch Fyne Seafood & Grill said: "It is always a difficult decision to close a restaurant and we are working with our Nottingham team to try to find them alternative roles in the area.
"We would like to thank all our customers who have visited us over the years."
Former Sheriff of Nottingham and author, Catharine Arnold, was one of the restaurant's biggest fans and was gutted to hear about the closure.
She said: "It's very sad news for Nottingham. I loved that place. Another blow for hospitality and the high street."
The restaurant's specialities included a seafood mixed grill with Scottish salmon, king scallop, squid, sea bass fillet and lobster butter and Thai green curry with king prawns and hake.
Loch Fyne came to Nottingham in 1990 as an oyster bar and was the first to open away from the original site on the banks of the sea loch it was named after on the west coast of Scotland.
As the business expanded, the Loch Fyne Seafood & Grill chain was founded. It was bought out by the brewery Greene King in 2007.
Loch Fyne is the latest casualty of the pandemic in Nottingham. Belgian restaurant Belgo, at Weekday Cross, has closed, and yesterday it was revealed that MOD Pizza, in Long Row, wouldn't be reopening as the company had gone into liquidation.
