Brique has closed in Centreville. The Eastern Shore restaurant lasted just over a year.
I liked chef Will Dolan's food very much here. Of course I wondered about the Centreville location, which is a little off the beaten path. Make that very. Brique was still doing good business on weekends, Fairbanks told me, but it was slow on weeknights.
"I thought I had a hidden gem," the restaurant's co-owner Billy Fairbanks said. "I didn't." Fairbanks told me kept Brique open as long as he could, but closed it the very first time he couldn't make payroll, which was this past weekend. His chief concern now, he says, is paying his employees. He promised to let me know when his kitchen crew found new posts, so I could pass the word along.
Meanwhile, Capital Culinaire, Fairbanks' catering concern, is still in business