Cafe Rialto

Hey everyone

The final weekend of opening is here!
A longtime friend (and previous employee) of the Cafe, Stan'ley' Samuel and his band have offered to put on a performance outside the cafe to celebrate the last day on Saturday 12th August. We will be open until 1pm as we plan to join the celebration once we have finished trading for the day.

We expect it to be a very busy day for us, so please be patient if our service is slower than usual. We hope to see you all for our final hurrah!

See you soon
John, Bob & Becky

Hi everyone,

We have an important announcement to make, and we would appreciate it if you can share this post and spread the message.

From next week (29th August) onwards the Café Rialto will only be open for business on Fridays and Saturdays.

Unfortunately we are having to shrink our trading hours due to an unwillingness from the council to cooperate with our plans to sell the business.

Last year in October, we (John, Becky and Bob) announced that we want to sell the Café and enjoy our retirement. We were able to find a buyer very quickly, and approached the council with our plan to sell, but the council have neglected to assist us due to a vague plan to "renovate the arcade" and dragged their feet on providing any updates.

After a year of inaction from their behalf the cafe has lost more and more employees and we are finding it increasingly harder to run the cafe with such few staff. Therefore, with regret we have chosen to reduce our open hours to what we can manage, until we have a solution on selling the business or until we can no longer run it ourselves and must close for good without a new owner.

We apologise if anyone finds this news distressing, and for any inconveniences caused by the change in our hours. We felt it was best to be open about our current situation, as we have always believed our customers are our friends and family and deserve our honesty.

Lastly we want to thank you all for supporting the Café for the last 59 years, and hope you continue to do so until the end.

Our sincerest gratitude,
John, Becky, Bob & The Rialto

Hello everyone!

We will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday this week to spend some time with visiting family and the new dog who just made his first ever visit to the Café!

The café will be open again on Friday 15th as usual.
Apologies for any inconvenience, we look forward to seeing you all soon!