Decision issued on quirky Nottingham restaurant plans after popular venue closed

King Pins Bowling, Six by Nico and Honi Poke will be coming to the shopping centre.
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A decision has been issued on plans to replace a closed Nottingham city centre restaurant with a quirky new venue. Nottingham City Council has approved plans for a restaurant with ever-changing, imaginative tasting menus to take over the site of the former George's Great British Kitchen on Queen Street, Nottingham city centre.

The fish and chip restaurant closed suddenly in September after ten years, blaming rising costs and unfavourable business conditions. Six by Nico, a chain that has themed tasting menus which change every six weeks, applied to replace the beloved chippy in December last year.

The restaurant had to ask for special permission to make changes to the Victorian building that previously housed George's, as the grand former post office is grade II listed. The building will undergo a facelift as part of the plans with new signage outside and internal works such as new flooring, pushing the kitchen back under the mezzanine to expose more of the original columns, removal of timber beach huts to be replaced by new seating, and new toilets.

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Six by Nico is the brainchild of chef Nico Simeone, who opened his first restaurant in his home city of Glasgow in 2017. The company now has 11 sites including Birmingham, London, Dublin and Cardiff.

The council's decision to greenlight the plans further breathes new life into Queen Street, following the reopening of the former Red's True Barbecue site last month as New York-style bar Manahatta. Six by Nico is to feature space for 92 diners, with 56 on the ground floor, 24 on the mezzanine and a 12-seater private dining room.

The chain's innovative dishes include Scarecrow, part of the Land of Oz menu, which is hay-smoked white pork, fennel, apple and pickled mustard, and the Emerald City, a dessert of apple cremeux, honey mousseline, yoghurt sorbet and lemon gel. The restaurant also holds murder mystery evenings with six courses designed to navigate through the crime scene.