After 4 years, Restaurant Claudine has abruptly closed. The French-Southern restaurant introduced on Instagram that Monday, June 22, was the final day of enterprise at 512 E. Grayson St.
“The hospitality trade is consistently evolving, and so are we,” wrote the restaurant. “Whereas this chapter has come to an in depth, our ardour for creating memorable eating experiences stays stronger than ever.”
Restaurant Claudine opened in October 2022, rehabbing a disused Victorian cottage right into a vacation spot restaurant. The inside was excessive Southern maximalist, stuffed with de Gournay-esque floral wallpaper, reclaimed chandeliers, and a plate rack with mismatched china.
The menu tried the identical balancing act, mixing a Cajun gumbo with Gascon duck confit. The idea was an echo of America’s upscale Southern second, gaining native reputation however by no means attaining the nationwide profile of Nashville’s Husk, Poole’s in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Austin’s Olamaie.
Restaurant Claudine’s closure follows a turbulent few years for house owners Carpenter Carpenter Hospitality. The group first burst onto the scene in 2020 with Little Em’s Oyster Bar — an idea that also stays its flagship. However since then, a number of eating places below the group’s umbrella have come and gone.
In 2024, the group shuttered the two-year-old Up Scale and later moved Little Em’s into the area. That very same yr, it reeled in Go Fish after reinventing the area as an oyster bar. Along with the signature oyster bar, Carpenter Carpenter nonetheless operates dear sushi spot Nineteen Hyaku and Beau’s Tiny Diner within the authentic Em’s area.
Within the closing assertion, Carpenter Carpenter mentioned it was already transferring on to its subsequent idea — a chorus that has turn out to be frequent because the portfolio churned.
“[W]hile Restaurant Claudine’s story ends right here, ours doesn’t,” wrote a rep on social media. “We sit up for sharing what’s subsequent in a brand new, but acquainted neighborhood.”
