With the end of summer comes the end of Lucille's West Side.
The short-lived restaurant offered brunch, dinner, and cocktails to customers starting in June.
On Wednesday, Sept. 4, Lucille's closure was announced via a brief post on the restaurant's Instagram (which has been scrubbed of all but that one post).
"South Granville, that was a summer to remember! As of today, our doors are closed. Cheers!" reads the entire post.
Lucille's had opened up at 1509 W 12th Ave., replacing Heirloom, the long-time vegetarian restaurant with polarizing ownership (which briefly moved away from vegetarian meals at the end). The venture was from the same ownership team as Heirloom and emerged as Lucille's after a brief closure for some cosmetic changes.
The menu for Lucille's had remained much the same as Heirloom's. In mid-June, operators told V.I.A. Lucille's was in a soft open mode and that they would provide more information about the restaurant when it entered the "hard launch" phase, however, no further communication was sent.
Before relaunching as Lucille's, Heirloom's Instagram account was scrubbed of past posts, including controversial comment exchanges between ownership and detractors who took issue with a variety of aspects of the business, from its decision to evolve past its "vegetarian" identity to serve meat and dairy products to customer service concerns.
Currently, there's a real estate listing for the location with photos of the space set up as Heirloom.
"One of Vancouver's busiest restaurant locations, pre-pandemic, known as Heirloom at 12th and Granville has hit the market," reads part of the listing.
It lists the restaurant at $399,000 and notes the lease is "$19,500 all in."
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