Trilogy restaurant in Irvine closed its doors last week.
The three-year-old restaurant was housed in an office-tower space on Von Karman Avenue formerly occupied by Bistro 201. That restaurant also closed, later to reopen at its current location on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach.
Chef Jim Strausbaugh said the restaurant had been struggling for some time, and that he recently had taken on most of the general manager’s duties at the request of owner Charles Bradley. The sous chef, David Henninger, left three weeks ago to start his own restaurant venture, and several of the front-of-the-house staff had left in the past month, he said. Strausbaugh said dinner business at the location was slow.
Strausbaugh was one of the presenters at a Food Network Live event at the Hyatt Regency Irvine on Oct. 1 and returned to his restaurant to find the locks had been changed, he said.
