Restaurant announces immediate closure amid costs
PA MediaA restaurant listed in the Michelin Guide has announced its immediate closure, blaming increasing costs.
SIX opened on the top floor of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, in Gateshead, in 2009 and was acquired by the Middlesbrough-based Pneuma Group in 2023.
In a statement, the restaurant said it had "faced difficult trading conditions, a tough economic climate and losses over a sustained period".
Baltic said SIX was operated independently from the art gallery and Pneuma Group made the commercial decision to close the restaurant.
"Like many in the hospitality sector, we've absorbed increasing costs for as long as we could, rather than pass the full impact on to our guests, but the cumulative effect has now become unstable," the statement read.
"After exploring every available option to continue trading we have made the extremely difficult decision to close."
The restaurant said it was working through existing bookings and will be contacting people to refund any deposits.
Valid gift vouchers will also be refunded.
