Lisa Vanderpump’s Shuttered Restaurant Pump Will Reopen Next to TomTom After Landlord Issues (2024)

The 'Vanderpump Rules' star's restaurant found a new home next to the bar co-owned by Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval

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The Vanderpump Rules star, 62, is moving her West Hollywood restaurant Pump to a new location down the street from the original space, PEOPLE confirms. It will be next to TomTom — Vanderpump’s joint venture with Tom Schwartz, 40, and Tom Sandoval, 40 — after previously closing in July over issues with the landlord. TMZ was first to report the new location.

Vanderpump’s third Los Angeles restaurant Pump announced its closing in May 2023. “Another 10-year lease with a huge increase in rent by the landlords, is not something we are ready to commit to,” she confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE at the time. With an uncertain future, the restaurant closed on July 5.

Now, Vanderpump tells PEOPLE that along with her husband Ken Todd, 65, they are in the midst of transforming the Garden Bar at TomTom into the new Pump location.They are bringing their staff, who had been with them for 10 years, over from the original location.

Vanderpump told TMZ that the Garden Bar space lacked its own identity, so it will be reinvigorated with some of the beloved food and drink offered at Pump. The reality star continued that the two will work in harmony with one another as TomTom has a more casual bar menu whereas Pump serves as its own sit-down restaurant.

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The restaurant’s new location is yet to set an opening date (TMZ reports it "won't be long all") but the spot is already advertising some of its offerings. The location put up a Pump sign and a flyer inviting customers to “come brunch with us.” The bright purple sign noted classic Vanderpump co*cktails like the “Pumptini” and boasted a “fabulous new brunch menu.”

Todd is currently being sued for nearly $1 million by Pump’s old landlords.

In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, 8948 Santa Monica Partners sued the businessman “to collect past due base rent, so-called ‘triple net’ expenses including property taxes, insurance and utilities, late fees and attorney’s fees,” among other complaints.

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Todd disputed the allegations in a statement to PEOPLE: “When we took over the place known as Pump 10 years ago, it was an empty car park."

“The landlord needs to return our rent deposit, as the property is in much better shape now than when we found it," he said. "This aggressive behavior by the landlord will not be tolerated."

Vanderpump and Todd also run SUR in L.A. and two Las Vegas eateries.