All change for Raffles

From the end of March 2012 Raffles Restaurant will have a new home in Kenilworth.

The popular Colonial Malaysian restaurant is moving a couple of hundred yards down Warwick Road and from 29 March will take up residence in the Grand Hotel.

This afternoon the decorators were out putting the finishing touches to the outside of the hotel in preparation for next week's re-opening.

Raffles have recently been offering some decent money-off deals via the Groupon website; the current deal expires on 31 March but if the offer is refreshed it might provide a good opportunity to try the new venue.

It will also be interesting to see whether another restaurant will move into Raffles' previous home.

I'd love to see a really good BBQ restaurant (along the lines of Bodean's or Pitt Cue Co) but I fear another bland chain restaurant may snap up the building.

And it's not just Raffles that's changing... since the demise of V2 earlier this year a lot of work has been taking place in the building on Station Road.  New shutters are up in the windows, and the old "She Bar" sign has been put back up (although to be honest it might never have come down!).

I'm surprised that this venue isn't more successful, but the last two ventures have folded relatively swiftly; I guess it's always going to be tough for a new bar/restaurant to establish itself in a relatively small town like Kenilworth, but Ego, Zizzi and Beef have managed it in the last couple of years so there is clearly a market for something new.

 

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