Maurice Terzini’s Snack Kitchen and Surry Hills’ Dead Ringer among venues to have quietly closed their doors

Famed restaurateur Maurice Terzini has shut up shop on his Potts Point project Snack Kitchen after just six months. It’s not the only venue quietly closing its doors.

Rather than one last hurrah, these venues have quietly closed: Maurice Terzini's Snack Kitchen, left, and Dead Ringer, right. Pictures: Supplied

Famed restaurateur Maurice Terzini has shut up shop on his Potts Point project Snack Kitchen after just six months.

Terzini opened the venue with his son Sebastian, with a focus on Euro-style snacks paired with an eclectic mix of wines.

However the venue is now closed while the building it’s housed, La Strada,undergoes a renovation.

“Snack Kitchen is taking a winter break,” the venue’s Instagram says.

“Well be back in Spring 2024.”

Snack Kitchen is a joint venture with restaurateur, Maurice Terzini and his son, Sylvester. It’s closed its doors for winter. Picture: Supplied

It’s not the only Sydney venue that has quietly shut its doors.

After close to ten years Surry Hill’s popular wine bar Dead Ringer, known for it’s weekend bottomless brunches, has also shut up shop.

There was no big announcement to mark the end of trade, just an addition to their instagram bio saying: “A Neighbourhood Restaurant With A Great Bar 2015-2024. We’d like to thank everyone for their support especially our wonderful teams past and present.”

Foodies on Reddit were questioning the venue’s closure.

Dead Ringer, a small bar venue in Surry Hills has closed after nine years.

“Dead Ringer in Surry Hills has closed, anyone know why? It seemed to be busy then it was gone,” one said.

“How bizarre, not even an announcement on their page! So many smaller venues are still closing down. 2 on my locale’s main street just in the past 2 months; it’s sad to see every time.”

It comes at a time when CreditorWatch Business Risk Index revealed the business failure rate for those in the hospitality industry had worsened. In May it predicted 7.5 percent, or 1 in 13 hospitality business were expected to close, now that figure

has risen to 9.1 percent which is 1 in 10.