Hopelessly Delayed

Vita, Laura Cunningham’s Aborted Yountville Project, Files for Bankruptcy

Laura Cunningham
Laura Cunningham Photo: Drew Altizer

We heard last fall that Vita, the restaurant project by onetime French Laundry manager and Thomas Keller’s fiancée Laura Cunningham, was indefinitely on hold, and in January Cunningham informed the Chron that the project was pretty much dunzo after some insurmountable “development challenges.” Now the Chron reports that Vita Partners LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which might lead to a *possible* future for the project, if and when a restructuring plan is accepted by investors, and especially the landlords (who are currently owed some two million dollars). We still think it sounds dicey, and Cunningham didn’t leave much hope on the table in January, but only time will tell.

Vita in Yountville down but maybe not out [Chron]

Vita, Laura Cunningham’s Aborted Yountville Project, Files for Bankruptcy