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What Happened to Lola Rojo After Best Local Restaurant? (Battersea, UK)

The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant, Season 1 Battersea, London

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Lola Rojo has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, November 2018.

What the source shows: Time Out's listing carries an editors' note from November 2018 saying Lola Rojo has closed, and a public listing checked 2026-10-19 also marks it permanently closed. How we decide a status →

What happened after The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant?

Lola Rojo, a Spanish restaurant at 78 Northcote Road in Battersea, lost the Spanish heat of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4) in the episode "Spanish Restaurants" shown on 2009-12-08, scoring 61 out of 100 against 74 for El Gato Negro, according to Wikipedia, which does not list it among the semi-finalists. Restaurant Online reported on 2012-10-16 that husband-and-wife owners Antonio Belles and Cristina Garcia had run Lola Rojo for six years and had appeared on Ramsay's search for the country's best local restaurant; the article announced a second restaurant and bar on Northcote Road. Time Out lists Lola Rojo as a Spanish restaurant at the Northcote Road address and carries a note, added by its editors in November 2018, saying it had closed. A public listing checked on 2026-10-19 also marks the restaurant permanently closed.

The episode The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant, Season 1

Episode 6
Aired
Title: Spanish Restaurants · What was featured: Spanish heat; scored 61 against El Gato Negro's 74

Also in Season 1 The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant

Season 1: 9 of 18 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(British_TV_series)
  2. timeout.com https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/lola-rojo-closed-1
  3. restaurantonline.co.uk https://www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2012/10/16/Rosita-Restaurant-Bar-Northcote-Road-London/
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