THE OLD Chemist cocktail bar and restaurant in Barnsley has closed.

The business opened in February last year as an upmarket cocktail bar and Brazilian rodizio, titled Estancia Churrasco, in Thomas Whitworth Forum on Hanson Street.

But it shut its doors for the final time on August 16. The Chronicle understands it will be replaced by another pub and restaurant combination sometime in the next two months.

The building was originally night-spot Lucorum, which opened in 2002.

After a £400,000 investment it saw new life as Meditteranean restaurant Lazy Pasta in 2014.

And then last year, Estancia Churrasco opened in the bottom floor of the venue.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle