Lisa Vanderpump’s Pump Restaurant Lounge Is Closing After 10 Years of ‘Beautiful Evenings’: Find Out Why

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All good things must come to an end? Lisa Vanderpump’s Pump Restaurant Lounge is closing after 10 years of business, Us Weekly can confirm.   “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that the lease at Pump Restaurant is expiring and we will be closing its doors on July 5th, after ten years of beautiful evenings under our olive trees,” Pandora Todd, Vanderpump’s daughter, told Us in a Thursday, May 4, statement. “As a family, we are looking to the future of the Vanderpump establishments and will be opening at least two more restaurants with Caesars Entertainment in the coming year.”   Pandora, 36, cited a “huge increase in rent by the landlords” as the reason for the shutdown, claiming that taking on “another 10-year lease” would be something they “are not ready” to “commit” to.

In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies “After successfully running 37+ establishments for many years, this type of rent is untenable,” her statement continued. “We will be open throughout Pride month in West Hollywood, to support the local community with one last hurrah, and we look forward to welcoming you all to TomTom & Sur in the months following!

Thank you for the past decade of support, we have loved our staff, our patrons and our time together.”  Speculation of trouble at the WeHo hotspot first sparked in March when Us obtained a report from the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) that confirmed Pump had its general eating license and its event permits suspended.

Although the documents did not cite why the restaurant was under suspension, an eyewitness exclusively told Us at the time that the business was not open the weekend of March 11, with a sign posted that read “closed due to rain issues.” Vanderpump, 62, later