Liverpool-headquartered restaurant chain closes branch just 14 months after £1.2m launch

Liverpool-headquartered Viva Brazil has closed its Birmingham restaurant just five months after it had stayed alive through the group’s administration.

The restaurant group has struggled in recent years and the Birmingham site has become its third consecutive failure.

Its restaurant in Aberdeen closed in January 2015 after seven months and its Newcastle site was open for 14 months before it shut in September 2016.

The group collapsed into administration in February before it was bought back by its founder Andy Aldrich.

At the time he said all of its restaurants were “performing strongly”.

But the restaurant, which only opened in May 2016 after a £1.2m investment into the Bennetts Hill site, has now closed. The site had previously been home to Indian restaurant Isaacs and, before that, Thai Orchid.

Aldrich said: “It is with deep regret that we close the Birmingham site.

“I would like to thank customers who dined with us over the last 15 months since we opened.

“I understand that news of a new concept in our Bennetts Hill location will be announced in the coming days.”

Staff at the Birmingham site have been “given the option” of a transfer to another Viva Brazil restaurant, although the group’s other sites are in Liverpool, Cardiff and Glasgow.

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