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Here are a number of places that have or could be opening up in your area.
Cookies and Cones Cookies and Cones recently opened its new shop on Southend High Street, selling out all its bakery items by midday on its first day in business. The brand initially opened in leigh three years ago and flourished through lockdown, opening branches in Rayleigh and Wickford. Southend’s branch is the latest to open, with bosses revealing plans for another south Essex branch and a potential move to the big apple.
Frank’s A plush new Latin American bar and restaurant is set to open in the former Bar Rio in Leigh after a £350,000 refurbishment.
THE Covid pandemic has no doubt been a disaster for the hospitality industry, but that hasn’t stopped some restaurant bosses eyeing up moves to the Southend borough. There are a number of applications that have been submitted to the council in recent months involving the addition of new eateries. So here is a round-up of the new restaurants that could be on their way to our area in the near future.
Sam’s Chicken A new fast-food restaurant could be set to takeover a now empty shop building. Plans have been submitted an application to change the use of 119 High Street, in Southend, from retail to restaurant.
A former florist shop could be turned into a new restaurant and takeaway. Mr M Kugathas is behind the proposals for the old Fantasy Flowers store at 153 Rayleigh Road, Eastwood. He is bidding to install a seating area inside the shop on the ground floor and convert its change of use from retail to restaurant. The upper floors, which are currently used as flats, are not affected by the plans. Drawings of the external changes to the building suggest the new restaurant would be called Elite Peri Peri. There is a takeaway based in Bermondesy, London, trading under that name currently, but it is unclear if this is an expansion or an entirely new venture.
April 20, 2021
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed the winners of the 2021 RHS Photographic Competition, ahead of this year’s National Gardening Week (26 April – 2 May).
In a year that has seen a huge increase in people appreciating their local green spaces owing to the lockdowns, the RHS has reported a record number of entries to this year’s competition with the winning images selected from thousands of photographs from amateur and professional photographers around the world.
Making clever use of drone photography, Oliver Dixon scooped the title of Overall Winner for his image Spring from the Air. Entered into the Gardens category, the aerial shot gives a rarely seen glimpse of the intricate and symmetrically pleasing design of The Flower Garden at Loseley Park, Surrey. Judges praised the “astonishing detail of the image, which used texture, colour and design to give the photo a tapestry-like feel,” said the organisers.