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Mountain Scene By GUY WILLIAMS Three long-time downtown Queenstown business owners say the next six months will determine the fate of many like them. One’s closing his restaurant for good, another says he’s staring at a ‘‘bloody long autumn’’, while the third predicts half the shops on his street will be empty by the end of this winter. Darren Lovell’s legendary Beach Street seafood restaurant Fishbone would have marked 30 years in business this October.
But the resort’s second-oldest independently-owned restaurant will close its doors after tomorrow night. A ‘‘devastated’’ Lovell wonders who’ll be left standing in the town centre when international visitors eventually return. ....
Mountain Scene By GUY WILLIAMS Seafood restaurant Fishbone’s reopening on Thursday after a Covid-induced pause in trading. Owner Darren Lovell closed the Beach Street eatery last August, opening in its place Love Chicken The Pop-up, an offshoot of his Queenstown Central outlet.
Lovell tells Mountain Scene The Pop-up’s performed well, but ‘‘$15 burgers are never going to pay the rent in downtown Queenstown’’. He’s honed down Fishbone’s menu to ‘‘short and simple’’ to ensure he can deliver on its long-time mantra of ‘‘the freshest fish in New Zealand’’. It was the increasing difficulty of meeting that promise that prompted him to put Fishbone on ice in the first place, he says. ....