Italian-inspired supper club-turned-restaurant Forza Win is to close next week, with founders Bash Redford and Michael Lavery planning to expand their successful spinoff Forza Wine.
The pair started out on a casual basis at the Truman Brewery in Whitechapel in 2012, before switching to a permanent base in a Peckham warehouse. That closed during the pandemic, the restaurant relaunching in Camberwell Church Street in 2022.
They announced the February 21 closure in a social media post headed:
“FORZA WIN CAMBERWELL IS CLOSING, FORZA WINE IS NOT. It’s been 12 years! 5 as a supper club, 7 as a restaurant, two of which we’ve spent on Camberwell Church Street. We’ve had the immense privilege of working on over a decade of Forza Win in its many iterations and couldn’t be prouder of what everyone who has been part of it has achieved.”
They added: “Now it’s only Forza Wine you need to remember, and we’ll be slinging cauliflower fritti and custardos in more postcodes very soon.”
The brand is hailed in the 2025 Harden’s guide for its “great vibe” and “delicious plates”, and in recent years Forza Wine has attracted the most attention – initially for its dramatic roof-top setting in Peckham, and since late 2023 for its high-profile second branch in the heart of the South Bank, on the top floor of the National Theatre.
