An­drea Perez-Sobers

Se­nior Re­porter

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

Af­ter 14 years at its cur­rent ad­dress on Cipri­ani Bou­ve­lard in Port-of-Spain, Town Restau­rant & Bar is prepar­ing to turn the page, but not close the book.In a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day, the restau­rant an­nounced that Sat­ur­day will be its last day at the lo­ca­tion it has oc­cu­pied for over a decade.

“Af­ter 14 years, the time has come to say good­bye to this lo­ca­tion. We are mov­ing, and Sat­ur­day is our last day here. Join us this week to cel­e­brate one last time at this lo­ca­tion,” the post read.

The mes­sage thanked loy­al guests for their con­tin­ued sup­port and “amaz­ing mem­o­ries,” while promis­ing a new chap­ter ahead.
The word­ing trig­gered an im­me­di­ate re­ac­tion on­line. Sev­er­al cus­tomers flood­ed Town’s Face­book page, ad­mit­ting they were alarmed and ini­tial­ly thought the restau­rant was shut­ting down.

Oth­ers ex­pressed re­lief once it be­came clear the move was on­ly across the road, with some post­ing that they would be book­ing their ta­bles soon at the new space.

By yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, own­er Jen­na Shar­ma-Creteau moved to clar­i­fy that the busi­ness is re­lo­cat­ing to a new build­ing just op­po­site its cur­rent premis­es.

She ex­plained that the tran­si­tion has been in the works for some time and de­scribed the move as both strate­gic and deeply per­son­al. The re­lo­ca­tion, she not­ed, is be­ing un­der­tak­en in ho­n­our of her fa­ther, Bis­soon­dath Shar­ma Bas­deo, who died in De­cem­ber at age 78.

She shared that he would have been proud to see the new it­er­a­tion of Town and that the fam­i­ly is ded­i­cat­ing the tran­si­tion to his mem­o­ry.
Bas­deo was a well-known fig­ure in the lo­cal hos­pi­tal­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty and the for­mer hus­band of Jen­ny Dan-Shar­ma, op­er­a­tor of Jen­ny’s on the Boule­vard.