Chippenham-based business Coq has confirmed that the Bristol branch has ceased trading following a period of “significant financial difficulties”.
The business opened its first restaurant on Chippenham’s Timber Street in February 2021, when brothers Ollie and Will Ford took the food-truck business they set up in October 2020 into a bricks-and-mortar home.
The Bristol branch then opened in late 2025, but has now closed its doors, the company has confirmed, with insolvency proceedings underway.
Company director Will has told this paper that “increasing operating costs and challenging trading conditions ultimately made the restaurant financially unviable”.
He also clarified that the Bristol branch operated under a…