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After 65 years of history, the Venezia restaurant, located in the Bellavista neighborhood of downtown Santiago, will close its doors forever, mainly as a consequence of drug trafficking that exists in the sector.
This was confirmed Andres Gonzalez, a member of the family that took over the place in 1955, when he left as a local snack bar and to the gastronomic portal Journey to Flavor.
The decision was due to the sum of circumstances that have occurred in the last year, first with the social outbreak and the constant demonstrations and violent events in the sector, and then due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced them to paralyze.
“There have never stopped demonstrations in the area, even with the quarantines and curfews,” he explained.
But nothing did more damage to this family business, located on Antonia López de Bello street with Pío Nono, than the micro-trafficking that occurs in the area.
“For two years they have taken over the neighborhood. You could see between 10 to 12 guys shouting cocaine in the street and that affected sales, that fell between 20 to 25 percent. Now with the lifting of restrictions they were the first to return, “he said.
Thus, “The outbreak can be overcome, the same as the Covid-19, but the narco cannot; that’s what killed us”, he sentenced.
