Restaurant returns after enforced ‘holiday’

» DINERS at a Cheltenham restaurant can enjoy meals once again after a mishap while walking forced the management to close for eight weeks.

Jon Howe broke his ankle when he slipped on a cliff path earlier in the summer forcing him and his wife Helen to temporarily close Lumiere, their Clarence Parade restaurant.

Reservations had to be cancelled at the 3AA Rosette award winning venue but after a “tricky” couple of months it has now started serving food again.

Showing an X-ray of the fractured ankle and an image of Jon in a boot cast on instagram, the management said: “It’s great to finally be back open!

“An eight-week forced ‘holiday’ always sounds like a great idea, that is until your head chef/darling husband slips on a cliff path and breaks his ankle. “It’s been a tricky couple of months with the restaurant forced to close but we would really like to thank all of our customers who’s reservations we had to cancel for being so understanding, our suppliers and staff for also for being so understanding and to all of our friends and family for helping to keep our sanity.”

Jon said his staff had been keeping busy doing everything from helping out at award winning Bristol restaurant Casamia, bottling wine at Astley Vineyard, sampling gin at Sibling Distillery and even helping tidy up Regent Street. Helen and Jon won a victory against Tripadvisor after a member of the public posted a review of a different restaurant on a page dedicated to their venue.

The website eventually took down the incorrect review after they were contacted by the Echo.