Seasonal food-to-go concept Bewliehill has closed its last two London sites, in Bishopsgate and St Paul’s, and entered administration, Restaurant Online reported on 12 October 2026. Matthew Richards and Robert Anthony Young of Azets were appointed joint administrators on 2 October, according to a London Gazette filing dated 9 October.
Bewliehill sold salads and seasonal bowls under a farm-to-fork positioning, and was launched in 2022 by founder Angus Lambert. Restaurant Online reports that it had two sites left in the City of London at the time of closure. The article gives no turnover, loss or job figures, and it does not describe the business as franchised, so Bewliehill is treated here as a small multi-site operator whose network model is not stated, unlike the restaurant brands recruiting UK operators, which publish theirs.
The administration and who was appointed
According to Restaurant Online, the group entered administration, and the London Gazette filing dated 9 October records the appointment of Matthew Richards and Robert Anthony Young of Azets as joint administrators on 2 October. An administration is a formal insolvency procedure under the Insolvency Act 1986, in which licensed insolvency practitioners take control of a company’s affairs, and The Gazette is the official public record in which the appointment is notified. Propel carried the story on the same day under the headline “in administration”. Neither report cited here names a buyer, and no sale of the brand or its sites has been reported.
The founder’s announcement
Lambert announced the closure on Instagram. His post read: “Yesterday was our last day serving you your favourite bowls.” He pointed to the difficulty of growing a hospitality business, urged customers to keep backing independent food and drink venues, and thanked the team for their time and effort. The post does not mention the administration or the administrators, and Restaurant Online does not report any comment from Azets. The article gives no date for the last trading day beyond the reference to “yesterday” in the founder’s post.
Where it sits in the day’s trading news
Restaurant Online published the Bewliehill report on the same day as the BBPA forecast of about 360 pub closures in 2026, and the two stories involve different parts of hospitality, one a trade-body forecast and the other a single company’s insolvency. Bewliehill’s closure is a company event: the report does not link it to any sector statistic, tax measure or rent increase, and it does not say how many sites the group traded from at its peak.
What has not been published
The reports cited here do not give the company’s legal name, its registered number or its creditors, and they do not state whether the administrators are seeking a sale of the business. Those details would normally appear in the administrators’ filings at Companies House and in the proposals sent to creditors, which are the primary records for what happens next.
The sequence on the record is an appointment on 2 October, a Gazette filing dated 9 October and the closure reported on 12 October, so the administrators had been in post for ten days when the closure became public. The reports do not say whether trading continued during that period, or whether any of the group’s sites had already closed before the appointment.
