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The restaurant group, bought from Alan Yau for £21.5m in
2008, opened its first new site on Panton Street in London's West End
on 28 March and will be followed by the launch of a double-storey
restaurant between Hoxton Square and Old Street in June.
A third site will open in West London later this year before the
restaurant chain opens its first site outside London in an, as yet,
undisclosed location.
To coincide with the launch of the first two London sites, Busaba
will run two arts-based projects.
It will show screenings of short films produced by students from
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design at the Panton
Street restaurant and will exhibit works by photographer Jason Lowe,
Fashion house; Child of the Jago, Illustration agency;
HigginsonHurst, VNA Magazine, and Curated Project; Big Antidote at
the Hoxton restaurant.
Yau opened the first Busaba Eathai, his interpretation of the Thai
canteen, on London's Wardour Street in 1999. It was followed by
restaurants on London's Store Street and Bird Street before being
bought out by management company Phoenix Equity in 2008, headed up by
Yau's wife Jale Erentok.
Later that same year Stephen Gee was appointed chairman of Busaba
Eathai Limited to assist in a roll out plan.
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