MANCHESTER-based restaurant group, Individual Restaurants, are to follow the impressive million pound makeover of their flagship Piccolino restaurant on Albert Square with an equally grandiose new opening in the centre of Chester.
…it was only right we made the building something special again for Chester
Following an extensive £8 million restoration job (dubbed ‘The Dining Quarter’) by American private equity firm Carlyle Group, the restaurant group are gearing up to launch the Opera Grill - ‘an internationally inspired grill using outstanding ingredients’ – in the former Methodist Church on Pepper Street (opposite Piccolino Chester).
The £3m investment will create a whopping 400-seater split-level restaurant, boasting two restaurants, three bars, a stage area for DJs and performers and a south-facing all-year sun terrace.
Steven Walker, founder of Individual Restaurants, says: “The building has played an important role throughout its history, originally as a Methodist church and then contributing massively in the war effort when it was used as a garage to manufacture wings for Spitfires - so it was only right we made the building something special again for Chester.”
Bosses say (rather dramatically) that the restaurant will offer punters the chance to emerge themselves in a 'theatre of food', with multiple chefs, counters and ovens making it possible to see your food wing its way to the table from beginning to end - mirroring the experience at Piccolino's new Caffe Grande.
Opera Grill opens on Thursday 4 August.
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