{"id":450247,"date":"2026-09-28T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450247\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:36:08","slug":"owners-of-stone-oaks-british-restaurant-tea-shop-to-return-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450247\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners of Stone Oak\u2019s British restaurant, tea shop to return to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A Stone Oak restaurant announced it plans to close permanently on Sunday, Oct. 4, according to a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Old English Tea Shoppe announced the closure as two of its co-owners, Sandra and Peter Marley, made the decision to return to the United Kingdom for \u201ccircumstances beyond their control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWe want to thank every single customer who has supported us, shared a meal with us, celebrated special occasions with us, and made The Old English Tea Shoppe part of their lives,\u201d the restaurant said in the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The restaurant opened in 2023, according to its website, with the mission of offering the \u201cREAL English experience\u201d and cuisine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Sandra and her husband helped open the restaurant that her brother Robb Kelly dreamed of, the website said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cIt has been an absolute pleasure serving our community,\u201d the statement continued, \u201cand we will forever be grateful for the friendships, memories, laughter, and wonderful moments we have shared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The store has advertised an opportunity for someone new to purchase the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Also on KSAT:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A Stone Oak restaurant announced it plans to close permanently on Sunday, Oct. 4, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,1724,354,82,84,83,9614],"class_list":["post-450247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-food","tag-immigration","tag-restaurants","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-stone-oak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}