Restaurants / New Openings
Pizzarova and Happy Bird to both open city centre restaurants
Keeping up with all of the restaurant openings and closures this year in Bristol is becoming something of a full-time job.
Despite the pessimistic outlook of many, one restaurant closing is often the opportunity needed for another to open in its place.
Pizzarova currently have a restaurant on Gloucester Road and a crate in Wapping Wharf, and now hope to open their second bricks and mortar restaurant at the bottom of Park Street.
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For many years, 2-4 Park Street on the corner of Unity Street was home to Sue Sheppard recruitment agency, known for its colourful window displays. It was most recently Spanish tapas bar and restaurant La Tomatina.
Pizzarova hope to move into the former La Tomatina on Park Street
For Happy Bird, it’s a much swifter expansion, with the business eyeing up the former Hotcha on Baldwin Street less than one month after opening their first restaurant on Whiteladies Road.
The business describes themselves as “a contemporary, home delivery chicken concept” using only free-range chicken.
Happy Bird is owned by Adam Batty, a former corporate lawyer who held senior roles at Domino’s Pizza and Mitchells & Butlers, and has a former CEO of Domino’s as its executive chairman.
Happy Bird hope to move into the former Hotcha on Baldwin Street
Hotcha went into administration in October 2017 after its restaurants were raided as part of a money laundering investigation by HM Revenue & Customs.
Its ambition to create the Domino’s Pizza of Chinese takeaways turned sour after a suspected £35m tax fraud and money laundering operation, leading to more than 100 staff losing their jobs.
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