Work is underway to enable two new restaurants to open in Wilmslow town centre.
Kalos, a Mediterranean peri peri charcoal grill. will open at 10 Water Lane which has been empty since Paperchase closed in August 2019.
Firat Altindag owner of the Zalos Group, has over 15 years experience having worked in Gusto Alderley Edge before moving on to open a cafe in Knutsford and further a field to Stockton Heath and Latchford.
The restaurant will occupy the ground and first floor of the vacant property and the proposed opening hours are 12pm until 11pm Monday to Saturday and 1pm to 11pm on Sunday and Bank Holidays.
Just a few doors down another new restaurant is preparing to open in larger premises which have been empty since CAU, the Argentinian restaurant which opened in March 2015, closed after the company went into administration in July 2018.
Roost, which also has a restaurant in Heaton Moor that opened in 2017, will serve rotisserie chicken, wood fired pizza and burgers along with a range of craft beers, cocktails and milkshakes.
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Young professionals with their young families - maybe if they have a job they could afford it but then they would only have weekends. Therefore the problem. These eateries along with the Juniper (Slug) due to open will be deserted Monday to Friday after an initial taster.
Nothing to buy and plenty to eat and drink then the usual suspects will complain about the drunks, puke, noise and litter.
Good luck! A rent free period. Financed fit out and.....
Also, we are lucky to live in an area whereby eateries offering breakfast and lunch can be very well serviced by again professionals seeking to make the most of flexible working arrangements. We all now have portable devices and can work just as effectively from Juniper than we can from home or the office. Just look at Juniper's in Hale when it was allowed to open, to me it seemed to be always busy and have had many calls with colleagues working from there remotely.
I do agree that unfortunately you usually get people complaining about the late hours and the impact that can have, but this is a necessary evil to have what we want in Wilmslow, a vibrant centre with restaurants that welcome all. It is a town centre and not a village, noise will undoubtedly come at closing time and some young people have little respect but on balance we need the vibrancy businesses like this could bring.
I find your last comment cynical, we need to get behind these new businesses, back them and support them and so they succeed. Again, look at Wood Fire Smoke and their owner Sam, what a shining example of what we need more of in Wilmslow.
Sure many of us chose (before the year long fiasco) to eat out midweek to avoid the tourists, racket and appaulling service on a Saturday night but most are empty and a few closed all day during the week. A few "professionals" with their kids at 5pm won't pay the bills.
Some like Wood Fire Smoke, Smoke and the Italian kitchen have taken a good look at successful models and made a success, some have struck lucky like Suburban Green while others, Potato and Cake and the failed Camerena experiment and get it wrong!!
When some normality is resumed will we be happy to pay £80 for two for a couple of pizzas, drinks and a bottle of plonk, £50 for the £12 bottle we have been enjoying at home, £300 for four for an average meal with wine and drinks at Cibo whilst being sneered at for not spending more.
Too many think the streets of Wilmslow are paved with gold and they will "smash it" without understanding that most people actually work. Maybe variable hours and home working will help, lost jobs won't, but saturation point will be reached then those with a successful formula will survive and the average won't. That's business and why catering has always had a very high failure rate.
In 'normal' times it's quick,easy, and relatively risk-free to bake pizzas to order. More difficult, I'd think, for a restaurant like The Oakwood to survive.