Jamie’s Italian is no more – a new restaurant in Adelaide is set to take its place.
A new restaurant is set to take the place of Jamie’s Italian in Adelaide, where a multimillion-dollar renovation had transformed the historic banking chamber.
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A brand new restaurant is set to take the place of Jamie’s Italian, in one of Adelaide’s most prominent buildings.
Hotelier Ed Peter and his partners, who own the heritage-listed building at 2 King William St, remain tight-lipped on the project but have registered a new business at the address, which is also home to 2KW restaurant and rooftop bar.
Mr Peter is the sole director of FB Restaurants Pty Ltd, which trades as Fishbank, while shareholders currently are Ed and Julie Peter, and Richard Magides of Singapore.
It follows many months of uncertainty over the site, which still bears the name of British celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver.
His first South Australian Jamie’s Italian restaurant opened to fanfare in the former Westpac banking chamber in 2014, following a multimillion-dollar renovation. Featuring lofty ceilings, period-inspired chandeliers and a $50,000 marble-top antipasto bar, it was praised as “most luxurious, grandest and most unique” of all the Australian Jamie’s Italian restaurants.
What followed was years of financial turbulence, marked by the collapse of Oliver’s Australian business arm. Jamie’s Italian in Adelaide closed its towering brass doors earlier this year.
A spokesperson for the 2KW site could not reveal a theme or firm opening date for the new restaurant but said more detail would emerge in weeks.
The Westpac building was constructed in the midst of World War II and completed in 1942.
