{"id":403606,"date":"2026-09-18T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403606\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:32:09","slug":"big-city-tavern-in-fort-lauderdale-to-close-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403606\/","title":{"rendered":"Big City Tavern in Fort Lauderdale to close after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 9:15 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/H3AFGJXSN5DNRNGSVXEK37RJIE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Google Maps) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigcitylasolas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bigcitylasolas.com\/\">Big City Tavern<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale is preparing to close its doors after 25 years in business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/18\/big-city-tavern-en-fort-lauderdale-cerrara-despues-de-25-anos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/18\/big-city-tavern-en-fort-lauderdale-cerrara-despues-de-25-anos\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The restaurant announced the closure Friday in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/bigcitytavern\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/bigcitytavern\/\">Instagram Story<\/a>, saying its final day will be Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Big City Tavern, located at 609 E. Las Olas Blvd., is encouraging customers to stop by before the restaurant closes and thanked the guests, employees and community who have supported it over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs we prepare to close our doors, we\u2019re raising a glass to the guests, team members and community who made Big City Tavern what it is,\u201d the restaurant wrote. \u201cJoin us for one last bite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The restaurant did not provide a reason for the closure in their post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4B74H64MLFBGZJE5NUPW7EH4FU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"1421\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/6MNVTXJEDBE6TCNZGSMH4XJE.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 9:15 AM Updated:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Google Maps) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-403606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}