23/09/2015
Regretfully Durnovaria Wine Bar and Café is now closed for business. The ethos behind this project was to provide a comfortable public venue that could promote and showcase as much local produce and culture as possible due to the outstanding quality of food, drink, art, literature, music and history that is available throughout the region. Dorchester is blessed to have outstanding local businesses that all contribute naturally and enormously to the local economy, it is their great effort and underestimated local financial benefit that puts them aside from the chain culture in which we live. The business was known to be not without its struggles and unfortunately the costs of running it were too high for the level of trade it garnered over the two years.
The truly fantastic crew and I have made many friends and I would like to take this opportunity to wish great fortune and exposure to all the other local businesses, something they thoroughly deserve. Also and very fondly to thank the many great friends and supporters of Durnovaria who visited us regularly throughout.
Thank you all and I hope to see you around and about in the future. I'm very sorry and sad not to be serving you any longer!
Jim