AMBIENTE TAPAS LIMITED
Company number 06209010 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ambiente Tapas demonstrates the acute margin pressures afflicting the UK independent restaurant sector, with a significant erosion of shareholders' funds in FY2025 that has pushed the business into negative working capital territory. However, the company's substantial cash reserves of £841,424 — unusually strong for a business of this scale and sector — provide a meaningful buffer against the cost inflation and consumer demand challenges that characterise the current trading environment. The critical question for stakeholders is whether the FY2025 loss represents a cyclical trough exacerbated by one-off factors, or the beginning of a structural decline that would rapidly deplete the cash position if unaddressed.
Shareholders' funds
£150,187
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the Company during the financial year was that of providing hospitality services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2007-04-11
- Employees
- 139 (2026 accounts · was 145 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Ambiente Tapas Green Lane Trading Estate, Clifton, York, England, YO30 5PY
- Postcode
- YO30 5PY
- Capital
- 99,002 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-04-30
- Next due by
- 2028-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-28
- Next due by
- 2027-03-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 56101 Licenced restaurants
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by AMBIENTE TAPAS TRUSTEES LIMITED — since 2024-12-23
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- ambiente-tapas.co.uk
- Phone
- 01904689784, 01904809565, 01132461848
Popular contemporary restaurants in North Yorkshire serving delicious Spanish-inspired tapas, platters, paellas and Spanish wines and sherries.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 3 PARK TERRACE, WESTOW, YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE, YO60 7NH | 2017-05-09 |
| MARQUESS COURT, 69 SOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON, WC1B 4ET | 2007-05-01 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 257 similar companies in YO
3rd largest employer among its local peers (139 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2007.
Competitors York
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3. DNA YORK LTD
This company ranks 47 among licenced restaurants in York.
The class of 2007
14%
of the 1,950 companies in this sector incorporated in 2007 are still active today; 83% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2024-12-06
- Where
- York (3), City Of Kingston Upon Hull (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYK517643 | York | Leasehold | 2024-12-06 | — |
| NYK456390 | York | Leasehold | 2018-06-25 | — |
| HS385550 | City Of Kingston Upon Hull | Leasehold | 2016-10-07 | — |
| NYK418415 | York | Leasehold | 2014-10-15 | — |
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