Newstead restaurant Allonda has announced it will close permanently. The 90-seater will run its final service on February 14.

Owners Sebastiaan de Kort, Kevin Docherty and Yanika Sittisuntorn took to social media to announce the closure earlier this week.

“A big thank you to our community who has supported us over the years,” the post read. “It’s now time for us to make way for newcomers to Longland Street, exciting things to come.”

De Kort declined the opportunity to go on record about the closure but confirmed that Arty’s, an artisan sweet business he ran with Docherty, remained a going concern.

This masthead understands at least two food and beverage operators had expressed interest in taking over the Allonda premises.

The closure is an end of an era of sorts for de Kort, Docherty and Sittisuntorn, after de Kort and Docherty’s decision to wrap their NOTA restaurant in Paddington in August.

At the time de Kort put NOTA’s demise down to an end of the restaurant’s lease and a desire to consolidate their team at Allonda.

“Obviously, it’s a very interesting time [in the hospitality industry],” de Kort told this masthead then.

“For us, staffing is the biggest concern right now – the quality of staff and the consistency.”

Allonda opened in October 2022, serving a variation on NOTA’s Euro-inspired menu fine-tuned for Newstead’s younger demographic – think Casa Motta burrata with tomatoes, strawberry and balsamic, Catalan-style seafood stew, lamb rump with caponata, cavolo nero and balsamic, and a signature vegetarian risotto. It later launched a tight breakfast menu.

Diners have just eight days to check it out before de Kort, Docherty and Sittisuntorn hang up their aprons at Allonda for good.