Nearly three months after All Bar Nun closed, the future of another popular business at the O'Connor shops is now under a cloud - this time Flatheads Cafe.
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The owners of the business, Thea and Mikkel Blomley, revealed yesterday they were leaving the cafe after being approached by the building's owners to break their lease, which was to have run until 2013. Mrs Bromley said they were leaving the business on June 15 after running the cafe for seven years.
The landlords - who also own the building which housed All Bar Nun, now The Duxton pub - would only say yesterday that they had no plans to disclose at this stage.
''As far as we know, they're saying the business will continue as Flatheads, but it's not set in stone,'' Mrs Bromley said.
''We've had long discussions with them over the last few months where they came to us and said they wanted to take the space back. We were given the option to break our lease, which we've taken.''
The couple were keen to inform the public of their plans.
''We have a lot of loyal customers and it's important to us that people know if the business continues and is changed, that it is being done under different management, not ourselves.''
Mrs Bromley said she and her husband were having a holiday and then moving to Melbourne.
''We're sort of pleased to move on. Seven years is a long time to run a cafe,'' she said. Megan Doherty
