As Birmingham restauranteurs come to terms with the reality of the COVID-19 Regulations Tier 3 designation for the city there are more reactions from local leading names in the industry. In a question put to his customers on his Facebook page Glynn Purnell sought to gain information about the potential success of a takeaway service for his restaurant until the present crisis is over.
Alex Claridge’s The Wilderness announced the non-reopening of his Jewellery Quarter restaurant by e-mail to his clients and used it is an opportunity to promote a tee shirt the restaurant is selling with the inscription, “It can’t rain all the time”. We hope that is true.
And Simpsons and The Cross at Kenilworth:-
Jabbar Khan, the founder of Lasan, made famous by its then head chef Aktar Islam, and other restaurants, meanwhile is planning to open a new restaurant on Harborne High Street in the unit formerly housing a Cafe Rouge though the type of cuisine to be served there is not yet known. The restaurant is being designed by the Spencer Swindon Design group which designed the interior of the Plough Inn which will be opposite Khan’s new eatery. Khan has described it as going to be, “elegant and urban chic”. In the first part of the twentieth century, Brummies usually referred to the area using the derogatory term “Hungry Harborne” because the notoriously snobbish inhabitants liked to give the impression that they had rather more wealth than was actually the case and to maintain this image they would rather miss a meal than not have the items which projected prosperity. Perhaps Khan’s new restaurant may help to prevent the locals from still being ‘hungry’ and with its ‘urban chic’ still project the image of prosperity. I suppose the arbiter of that will be the effect of COVID-19 on jobs in an area where young professionals, unemployed, furloughed or still working, like to think of themselves as cool. Then again, t’was ever so.
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