Nearly everyday, it seems the dreams of a Bushwick restaurant shutters indefinitely over natural gas troubles. The expansion plans of both Empanada City and the halal burger joint BK Jani were curbed by widely publicized battles with National Grid this year. In early October, National Grid executive John Bruckner announced a brief pause on the company’s moratorium on new natural gas connections, following fears of fines. However, this news might have come a little too late for General Deb’s, which shuttered suddenly last week. 

“If I didn’t have something to fall back on, I’d be screwed,” Kevin Adey, owner of General Deb’s told Bushwick Daily. He and his wife just closed the elegant Sichuan joint on Irving Avenue less than two years after its opening. They will return full-time to Faro, the formerly-MIchelin starred Italian restaurant a few blocks away.

Adey say the closing of General Deb’s occurred with little warning.