Restaurants & Bars
Lisa Vanderpump's Pump Restaurant Is Closing After 10 Years
The reality star reportedly balked at a huge rent hike — $1 million annually — to keep the West Hollywood restaurant open.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — Lisa Vanderpump's Pump Restaurant, the West Hollywood landmark that has served as a key setting for Vanderpump's reality-show storylines for a decade, is closing its doors this summer.
"It's with heavy hearts that we announce that the lease at Pump Restaurant is expiring and we will be closing its doors on July 5th, after ten years of beautiful evenings under our olive trees," the restaurant wrote in an Instagram post.
Vanderpump's team wrote that they were not ready to commit to the terms of lease renewal for their prime space at Santa Monica and Robertson boulevards — a 10-year lease with a "huge increase in rent."
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"After successfully running 37+ establishments for many years, this type of rent is untenable," the post reads. TMZ reported that the annual rent payments would total nearly $1 million.
Vanderpump opened Pump after her 2010 debut as a cast member on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." The restaurant became notable for its prominent place in the spinoff series "Vanderpump Rules," which follows the staff — and the drama — of Pump, and Vanderpump's other WeHo establishments, SUR and Tom Tom.
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Those two other restaurants will remain open, according to the Vanderpump team. In addition to Vanderpump's West Hollywood portfolio, she also has two Las Vegas restaurants: Vanderpump Cocktail Garden in Caesar's Palace and Vanderpump à Paris at Paris.
TMZ reported that Vanderpump is opening two more restaurants at Caesars.
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