Announcing the launch on Instagram, the pair say that the tasting menu-only Li-Ly by Aiden Byrne requires a last minute injection of cash due to the 300-year-old building “requiring more work than was initially realised”.
At the beginning of next month the Byrnes will launch a rewards-based crowdfund on the Crowdfunder platform.
With the crowdfund not live yet it is unclear how much the pair are looking to raise, but rewards include a private eight course dinner (£3,000), gift vouchers, an opportunity to attend guests chef dinners (£150) and an eight course dinner for two (£160).
Billed as an “amazing new chapter in the pair’s lives” the 30 to 35 cover restaurant is expected to launch in October and will offer lunch and dinner four days a week.
“It’s a Grade II-listed 300 year-old building. It needs some serious attention. I’m so excited and nervous in equal measures. The building is pretty knackered. That’s where you come into it,” Aiden says in his Instagram video.
This May the Byrne’s stepped away from their The Church Green in Cheshire after 16 years.
Byrne took on the pub and restaurant in Lymm in 2008 having left his role as head chef at London’s Dorchester Grill Room to return to his northern homeland.
The chef - who famously attracted a Michelin star for his cooking at Norwich restaurant Adlards when he was just 22 years old - has been involved in a number of northern-based projects since taking on The Church Green, including Manchester House, which opened in 2013 and which he left in 2017.
