{"id":448255,"date":"2026-05-27T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:50:08","slug":"ben-baylys-former-restaurant-the-grounds-to-close-in-west-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448255\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bayly\u2019s former restaurant The Grounds to close in West Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe restaurant will close its doors in a few days’ time.<\/p>\n

The married mum of three had worked at The Grounds since it opened in 2016, first as a barista and later as a duty manager, before becoming the owner.<\/p>\n

The owners were \u201cbeyond grateful\u201d to every customer and supporter, and their \u201camazing staff, past and present\u201d, they wrote in Monday\u2019s social media post announcing it was \u201ctime … for us to say goodbye\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat started as a restaurant<\/a> became so much more \u2013 a place filled with laughter, celebrations, friendships, late nights, busy mornings, loyal customers, and unforgettable memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BenBen Bayly owns several restaurants in Auckland and Central Otago.<\/p>\n

Bayly, whose TV appearances<\/a> also include MasterChef New Zealand, Hangi Pitmasters, A New Zealand Food Story and The Restaurant that Makes Mistakes, couldn\u2019t be contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

The celebrity chef owns Auckland restaurants Ahi and Origine as well as AOSTA, Little Aosta and the Blue Door Bar in Arrowtown, and The Bathhouse on the shores of Queenstown\u2019s Lake Wakatipu, according to his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant will close its doors in a few days’ time. The married mum of three had worked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51,169011,2545,15361,651,156,2740,51249,12515,78,3958,11113,111,139,69,2539,15553,6122,11555,223,61,3807,80],"class_list":["post-448255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-auckland","tag-bayly","tag-baylys","tag-ben","tag-close","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-grounds","tag-highprofile","tag-in","tag-judge","tag-kitchen","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-restaurant","tag-restaurateur","tag-rules","tag-started","tag-the","tag-to","tag-west","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}