Mango Thai Cuisine, a Milford restaurant for more than a decade, closed over the weekend.
Its owner removed all of the tables and other property he owned from within the site at the Hannaford plaza, and took the sign down too. The property owner, Plains Milford Realty, said the restaurant owner told them recently he planned to close, that business had been down for some time.
Mango, which operated previously under an original owner, was in Milford for more than 10 years, said Chris Symonds, an owner of Plains Milford Realty.
She said she last spoke to the owner a few weeks ago, when the company filed a notice of eviction for unpaid rent. By Sunday, she received a call from another tenant in the plaza that the restaurant was gone and its doors were open.
"It just wasn't working," Symonds said. "His sales were down."
She said she wasn't sure Mango was going to close, until the call came from the other tenant. The restaurant was open on Saturday. "Everything disappeared by yesterday," she said Tuesday.
The adjoining space in the plaza, which used to be a Blockbuster store, has been empty for three years, Symonds said. She said the plaza may try to market the two as a combined space. The former Blockbuster and Mango spaces total 6,200 square-feet.
Five Guys Burger and Fries, on the corner, is one of the newer tenants in the plaza, as well as Lux Nails.
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