Hotel Migrants’ “Abusive Behaviour” Forces Restaurant to Close
The “abusive behaviour” of migrants staying in a local hotel and the “ongoing damage” they are causing has been blamed for the closure of a 20 year-old restaurant. The Telegraph has the story.
Managers of Ceno Bar and Restaurant said that it was forced to close because the migrant hotel next door had made business “impossible”.
The restaurant, which specialises in contemporary British food, said it was no longer safe for its staff and patrons.
A spokesman for Ceno said that asylum seekers in Highfield House Hotel had repeatedly damaged the restaurant and customers said they had overheard migrants “shout down” abuse from their windows.
The Home Office uses the Southampton hotel to house asylum seekers.
A spokesman for the restaurant said: “It is with great sadness that we announce that Ceno Restaurant closed its doors on January 1st 2026.
“Despite every effort to continue trading, it has become frustratingly impossible to operate due to ongoing issues connected with the Highfield Hotel in which we are located.”
They added: “The hotel owners have ignored our communication, [they do not] help to assist with ongoing damage caused by the hotel residents and have locked the car park for many months, meaning our customers have been unable to park and access the restaurant.”
Amid an ongoing crisis regarding the housing of migrants in hotels, Sir Keir Starmer has consistently pledged to reduce their use.
However, data from the Home Office showed that 36,273 asylum seekers were accommodated in hotels at the end of September 2025, 13% higher than the figure at the end of June that year.
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, claimed that “too many politicians” were unaware of the harm that migrant hotels were causing to local communities.
On Talk TV on Tuesday morning, Jenrick said: “I think a lot of people in politics were, and in fact remain, completely removed from the reality of mass migration.”
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Jenrick is in no position to throw stones — he and his Tory colleagues are equally guilty of having been “completely removed from the reality of mass migration”. Whilst this useless and mendacious Labour government has made the Illegal Migrant position far worse than it was, the Tories were responsible for failing, for over a decade, to get a grip on / reverse the illegal immigration crisis. Don’t make the mistake of thinking they would take effective action if, God forbid, they were ever in power again. My heart goes out to the poor owners of this restaurant, whose livelihood has been destroyed by our legion of corrupt and incompetent politicians.
Jenrick was the only person to resign from Rishi Sunak’s cabinet, because of Sunak’s laissez-faire attitude to illegal immigration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67643770
Well remembered and credit to him for doing that
Shame he didn’t resign over “Covid” but you can’t have everything
Not a peep out of the human rights laywer prime minister, the human rights lawyer attorney general and the wider human rights industry, over the breach of the human rights of the restaurant owners to go about their lawful business untrammelled by the actions of a government that champions the human rights of illegal immigrants.
I hope there is some way that this restaurant can sue the Home Office/Government/hotel owners for the loss of the business.
Sorry for the restaurant, especially as it serves traditional British food, but please, why do you have to behave like sheep, and paint everything dreary GREY? Aren’t weeks of grey skies dreary enough. It looks awful.
I have never known an age where people are so eager to conform to what they are told (by whom?) is “cool”.
How great! Something else to celebrate on the altar of diversity and of allowing immigrant scum to soil our country like it is their own turdworld shithole.
Two-Tier and Theeves …. destroying businesses throughout the UK.