Rosa Thais up deal for deansgate restaurant
NEW CHAIN WILL SET UP SHOP AT FORMER SITE OF HANDMADE BURGER COMPANY
ANEW Thai restaurant is set to open in the Spinningfields spot vacated by Handmade Burger Company. Rosa’s Thai Cafe, which has 18 sites across London, Leeds and Liverpool, has lodged a licence application for the Old Courthouse building on Deansgate.
Established on London’s Brick Lane in 2008, the restaurant serves a modern Thai menu inspired by founder Saiphin Moore’s childhood on her family’s farm in northern Thailand.
Diners can look forward to dishes such as tofu in tamarind sauce, larb chicken salad, drunken noodles and massaman curry when the Manchester site opens next spring.
Seating 60 people, the restaurant will open for lunch and dinner seven days a week with an all-day menu, weekday lunch deals and plenty of veggiefriendly and gluten-free options.
Saiphin said: “We’ve spent a long time trying to find the right site to open a Rosa’s Thai Cafe in Manchester and
The Old Courthouse felt like the ideal location for us.
“We’re really looking forward to becoming part of the city’s vibrant food and drink scene, and have a lot of plans for this restaurant which will set it apart from our Rosa’s in London.
“We’ve got a busy few months ahead and are really excited about opening our doors next spring.”
The new opening forms part of a major expansion plan for the chain, which sold a majority stake to American private equity company Tri Span last summer.
Saiphin and her husband Alex remain closely involved in the business.
Handmade Burger Company closed its 80-cover restaurant at the site in September. It had been open since 2014 and survived when the chain collapsed into administration three years later.
Nine of the group’s sites shut under the insolvency process in 2017. The remaining 20 were saved from closure when the chain was bought out of administration.