Zizziis a chain of Italian-inspired restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In February 2015, Bridgepoint Capital completed a £250 million acquisition of ASK Italian and Zizzi, and subsequently bought by TowerBrook Capital Partners in 2020.
Locations
Zizzi opened their first restaurant in Chiswick in 1999.
As of March 2022, the Zizzi portfolio includes about twenty five London restaurants. Other footprints in major cities, include: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and Sheffield.
Their restaurant estate also includes: Aberdeen, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
On 17 July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Azzurri Group, owner of the Zizzi and ASK Italian chains, announced the closure of 75 restaurants with the loss of up to 1,200 jobs.
