Forza Win started life as a supper club in 2012 at the Truman Brewery in east London in partnership with Pizza Pilgrims’ Thom and James Elliott. It later moved to a spot in Bethnal Green and then to The Culpeper in Shoreditch. and
It became a permanent fixture in 2017 when Redford and Lavery opened it in a warehouse in Peckham.
The restaurant later closed in the summer of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic before reopening on Camberwell Church Street in 2022.
Forza Win serves ‘Italian-ish’ food following a traditional five-course Italian meal structure and has won praise from the critics in both of its more permanent locations.
The duo’s Forza Wine brand, which operates two locations in Peckham and the National Theatre will remain open.
Writing on social media, the pair said they had “immense pleasure” of working on over a decade of Forza Win in its many iterations and “couldn’t be prouder of what everyone who has been part of it has achieved”.
They add: “We’ve spent the best part of a decade trying to explain that Forza Win and Forza Wine are two different things – now it’s only Forza Wine you need to remember, and we’ll be slinging cauliflower fritti and custardos in more postcodes very soon."
The restaurant’s last service will be 21 February.
