Butter Parramatta: Popular fried chicken, champagne bar closes in Sydney’s west

‘Devastated’ foodies are mourning the loss of a much-loved restaurant in Sydney’s west, after the popular chain shut up shop.

Chef Julian Cincotta takes a bite from one of his world famous Butter 300 sandwich in his Parramatta restaurant Butter on Marsden St. (AAP Image / Angelo Velardo)

A foodie institution in the heart of western Sydney has shut its doors — with devastated restaurantgoers mourning the loss of the hybrid fried chicken, sneaker and cocktail bar.

Butter shocked food-lovers this week when it closed its Parramatta store just five years after opening on Marsden St.

Butter Parramatta has closed its doors. Picture: Butter Sydney

Butter Parramatta has shut up shop.

Supporters of the successful offshoot of the Surry Hills and Chatswood restaurants took to social media for answers, with one western Sydney resident describing it as “devastating” when a Butter fan said management “had a big party and stripped the place the next few nights”.

Butter Parramatta has closed its doors. Picture: Butter Sydney

Butter Parramatta shortly after opening in December 2017.

Meanwhile, another said the closure was “extremely sudden”.

References to the western Sydney “fried chicken, hip hop, champagne and sneaker” bar were swiftly scraped from the restaurant’s social media channels and website, with search engines listing the Parramatta store as “permanently closed”.

A Butter representative said while the Parramatta store's fate had been sealed, the team would continue to take part in events like Parramatta Lanes.

The closure will have no impact on the Surry Hills or Chatswood stores.