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In one day this week, we learned that three well-known Cardiff businesses were closing down.

In the city centre, bar and restaurant Locke and Remedy is closing , saying the business is "not financially viable".

At the other end of Queen Street, Vidal Sassoon is closing the only salon it has in Wales , blaming falling customer numbers in its Capitol shopping centre location.

And outside the city centre, restaurant Cibo said it was closing down after 20 years on Pontcanna Street.

Though news of their closures all came within a matter of hours, several other popular places have closed in Cardiff in 2017.

The Louis

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It had been serving generations of families for more than 60 years but closed suddenly in February.

The restaurant, which is famed for its green canopy sign with gold writing, was owned by the Italian Carpanini family and opened its doors for the first time in 1954.

Owners said that it had had to close after the lease expired.

Rossiters

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The department store opened its doors in the city 10 years ago, but announced at the start of the year it had taken the "excruciatingly hard decision" to close.

Owners of the Bath-based company said they could no longer afford to trade in a big city centre location.

A statement said: "Since we opened our doors in early 2007 retail has undergone something of a revolution and very sadly we can no longer afford to trade in this big city centre location."

Full Moon

The live music venue closed in April after a repossession notice appeared on the club's front window. However, it has since reopened as The Moon.

At the time, a statement on their Facebook page said: “We have given every ounce of blood, sweat, tears and money we have but following some difficult trading and the current air of uncertainty our creditors have lost confidence in our long term sustainability and taken action."

Cibo

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It was announced this week that the popular restaurant will be closing over the next few weeks.

A mainstay in the leafy suburb of Pontcanna for the past 20 years, it attracted customers from across the city.

The owners declined to give any more details about the decision to close.

Locke and Remedy

(Image: Locke and Remedy)

After around 18 months, managers said it was closing down this weekend because it was "not financially viable."

The bar and restaurant shares the Grade II-listed Old Library building, in Trinity Street, with the Cardiff Story Museum.

Harry Taylor, general manager, said: "Despite large growth in our second year trading the business is not financially viable and the lease to our part of the building has been sold."

Vidal Sasson

The hairdresser is closing its salon in Cardiff – its only one in Wales – after a fall in customer numbers.

The company's managing director Jackie Lang said that the decline in footfall at the centre had "adversely affected the revenues and profit of the salon and we have been left with no alternative but to exit this location".

Waitrose

It was announced in February that the upmarket supermarket chain was to close six stores, including its store on Queen Street.

Ben Stimson, Waitrose retail director, said at the time: "We’d always try hard to avoid closing branches but we review how our shops are doing commercially and respond where we have to."

Buzz and Co

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The shoe shop is set to close this year after trading for more than 30 years in Cardiff city centre.

Owners Buzz and Jean Berridge have run the shop in High Street Arcade since November 1983 with the store known for its colourful and more unusual varieties of shoes.

They blamed Brexit, higher business rates, rent costs and a lack of customers for the closure.

Waffle

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Waffle, near Victoria Park, served its last breakfast in April. The landlord who owns the building and adjacent units aims to turn the block into flats.

Mothercare

Mothercare closed its store in the St David's Centre in January.

A statement at the time said: "Our Cardiff store is part of a larger transformation plan for our business to reconfigure our store estate and provide a truly omni-channel shopping experience for our customers."

Greenwood and Brown

The Brains pub closed earlier this year. However, it has been replaced by the excellent Asador 44, from the team behind award-winning tapas restaurant Bar 44.

Asador 44 is the first in Wales to specialise in ‘asador’-style cooking, which involves chargrilling meat, fish and vegetables over charcoal and wood. It does a phenomenal steak.

The Royal Oak

Regulars were left locked out after the popular pub in the suburb of Whitchurch closed its doors suddenly.

There have been some suggestions that it could re-open, but Ei Publican Partnerships said: "We are in discussions with the publican and want to reassure the community that we aim to have the pub re-open and trading as soon as possible.”

The Heathcock

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Shortly before the Royal Oak closed, the Heathcock also announced it was closing.

The owners blamed issues with their landlords.

Colin's Books

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The adult shop closed its doors in after 40 years of selling porn and sex toys to customers.

It had become a familiar sight on Caroline Street with passers-by posing for pictures outside on rugby international days.

But the store shut its doors for good in February as the businessmen behind the venture decided to retire.

Albany News

The popular newsagent in Roath closed after nearly 50 years of trading in February.

First opened in 1965, it had been a family newsagent ever since.

Owners Tony and Barbara Dudden said the last couple of years had been difficult and said rising costs, fewer people buying newspapers from the shop, and tough competition from supermarkets meant the business had suffered.

Jonathan David jewellers

One of the city's oldest jewellers, it closed last weekend after the couple who owned it decided to retire.

After 35 successful years of business, Margaret and David Hughes-Lewis moved all supplies from the Wellfield Road shop to the family’s other store, run by son Jonathan on St Mary Street in the city centre.