West End deli given green light for new restaurant
A POPULAR city business has been given the go-ahead to convert one of its properties in Glasgow’s West End in to a new restaurant.
The owner of twin businesses Cafezique and Delizique in Hyndland Street lodged plans to transform its bakery and deli in a bid to offer something different.
With the approval of the plans and having recently acquired an alcohol licence for the coffee shop, the owner wants to offer a restaurant experience to its customers, while keeping the Cafezique focused on selling baked goods.
The supporting statement along with the application also said that the business would be able to double its workforce to 70 employees with a bakery set to open in Lauderdale Gardens in Hyndland.
It is the owner’s aim that the new bakery will supply baked goods, which will make up sections of both the bistro’s menus and open up more space. The proposal was passed with- out a fuss at the council’s planning application committee.
Mhairi Taylor, the cafe and soon-to-be restaurant owner, said transforming her larger space was a means to sustain the success of the business.
She said: “We have been on the corner site for 16 years now and the world has changed massively since then.
“A lot of the products we sold from the deli are now readily available in the likes of supermarkets.
“So to sustain the business, the decision was made to start up a restaurant.
“The bakery takes up two thirds of the space in the deli, so that is going to be moved to a new site.”
The plans put forward said that the renovated space would be a seafood restaurant but that decision has been changed after residents objected against the potential smell of fish.
“If all goes well I would hope to have the new restaurant open in the next three to four months,” added Mhairi.