Popular Fulham Reach Restaurant Forced to Close


Rent rise final straw for Mes Amis on Rainville Road


Les Amis on Rainville Road. Picture: Google Streetview

A Lebanese restaurant which has won an army of loyal customers on Rainville Road over the last 30 years has been forced to close.

Mes Amis was a intimate and sometimes cramped place to eat but had an atmosphere of its own.

The Fulham Reach restaurant, run by Karim and Regina, served Middle Eastern food with European influences made in a small kitchen.

They said that the latest rent increase made the small business unsustainable at the premises by the junction with Crabtree Lane.

It is the latest of many of London’s long-established restaurants to shut since the end of the pandemic.

One of the famous evenings at Les Amis
One of the famous evenings at Les Amis

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November 22, 2022