When restaurateurs go rogue: is it right to lambast locals who won’t come and dine with you?

An Italian restaurant shut up shop last week, with an angry and disappointed farewell note, blaming ‘neighbours’ for a lack of support ...

Name: Unappreciative customers.

Age: In the case of Don Ciccio, six years.

Am I right in thinking Ciccio can be a common Italian nickname given to people called Francesco? You are. It can also be used as a term of endearment (though probably not so much here, we’ll get to that). In this case Don Ciccio is … was … a restaurant.

Was? No longer then? After exactly six years, the eatery in Highgate, north London, has called it, as they say, un giorno.