Tables Restaurant Closes After 17 Years

Tables, the restaurant on Kearney Street that for many exemplified excellence in high-end neighborhood style dining, closed its doors for good on Aug. 6.

Amy Vitale-Barrett and Dustin Barrett, the couple who owned and operated Tables, posted an announcement and thank you to their staff, customers and friends 10 days earlier, on July 26. On closing night, longtime diners came in for a final Tables meal and to say goodbye.

“This has been a very difficult and emotional decision,” Vitale-Barrett said.

In their neighborhood Facebook posting, the couple indicated that it’s “it’s time to move on to the next life adventure, whatever that might be.”

“We would like to thank our staff, past and present, for being such an integral part of our business . . . Restaurant work is not easy. It takes commitment, thick skin, and a really good sense of humor.”

The social media posting also extended love to everyone who has dined at the restaurant, in the business blocks of 23rd and Kearney — including patrons who have celebrated birthdays, graduation dinners, first dates, marriage proposals, engagement parties, bridal showers, rehearsal dinners, intimate wedding receptions, baby showers, children growing up, epic parties and celebrations of life, and many other completely routine and sometimes totally extraordinary moments” at the restaurant.

“However, as much as we love Tables and seeing you walk through our doors, this is a bittersweet choice and a most difficult decision, to say the least. What an incredible journey it has been.”

— By Cara DeGette